-NDTV.com Lokesh Kumar Jangid, a 2014-batch IAS officer, faces notice from the Madhya Pradesh Government over allegations that he posted in a private group of IAS officers in Signal All India Bhopal: A young Indian Administrative Service officer has sought police protection in Madhya Pradesh after he made corruption allegations against state officers in a private messaging group in the app Signal. Lokesh Kumar Jangid, a 2014-batch IAS officer, is already facing a notice...
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Why The Pandemic Is A Child Rights Emergency In India -Namita Bhandare
-Article-14.com While Covid-19 orphans have dominated mainstream discourse, India’s children silently face an epidemic of other vulnerabilities, including hunger, the loss of school, early marriage and trafficking for sex. How child rights are being rolled back by decades. New Delhi: The first hint that something was out of place was when Saraswati Pagade, a team member of YUVA (Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action) Navi Mumbai Childline noticed a surge in the...
More »Activists hold press conference to emphasize the rights of the Khori villagers who are facing eviction
-Press release by Bandhua Mukti Morcha dated 18th June, 2021 New Delhi, 18 June,2021: The 50 year old secular Khori village, near Surajkund tourist spot (Faridabad, Harayana), inhabited by various sections is on the verge of being uprooted because of the Supreme Court order. Despite the existence of various farmhouses and high rise hotel buildings, the Government and the administration is only eyeing these 10,000 houses which house more than 1...
More »Why the Haryana Govt Must Not Evict One Lakh Residents of Khori Gaon -Manju Menon and Ishita Chatterjee
-TheWire.in It is very important that a full plan is created to address this crisis while keeping twin objectives of forest conservation and social housing at its centre. On June 7, Supreme Court reiterated its order of February and April 2020 to evict the Khori Gaon basti on the Delhi-Haryana border, falling within the Faridabad Municipal Corporation (FMC) jurisdiction. The eviction orders are premised on a set of cases heard in the...
More »Assam saw 28,000 more deaths than normal in months when first wave of Covid-19 struck -Arunabh Saikia
-Scroll.in The excess deaths were 30 times the official Covid-19 death count. Assam reported 77,845 deaths, or 55% more than the usual number, in four months of 2020 that coincided with the first wave of Covid-19 in the state, Government data shows. The excess mortality was 30 times the official Covid-19 death toll in these months. August, September and October accounted for over 75% of Assam’s total Covid-19 cases in 2020. Since there...
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