-The Times of India UDAIPUR: Buying rations in Kotra, a backward settlement around 125km from Udaipur, now requires a vital skill: tree-climbing. At many centres here, it is a common sight to see men and women perched on tree branches, waiting for hours for their turn to get their fingerprints and biometrics verified by the PoS (point of sale) machines. That done, they climb down and walk back miles to the ration...
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Delhi chokes on smoke from neighbouring states -Soumya Pillai and Vishal Rambani
-Hindustan Times Karnal/ Kurukshetra/ Patiala: Plumes of blinding smoke rise from the fields in Haryana’s Indri village, over 150 kilometres from the National Capital. Every second farm in the area has been set ablaze as it is the season for stubble burning. On October 17 and 20, the number of red dots in the ‘fire map’ by NASA grew considerably in Haryana and Punjab. The ill-effects of these fires are not limited to the...
More »Four minors are raped every day, only 1 in every 3 accused convicted -Aloke Tikku
-Hindustan Times New Delhi: Fewer children were brutalised in 2015 than 2014. And yet, 451 girls were raped before they could celebrate their sixth birthday, and another 1,151 before their twelfth. That means a girl, not old enough to begin primary school, and three others yet to enter their teens, were raped every day in 2015. Four out of every 10 victims below the age of 12 were either in Maharashtra (365...
More »Response on the Suspension of Registration under the FC (Regulation) Act, 2010 -Lawyers Collective
-Kafila.org The lawyers collective condemns the blatant attempt of the government of India to victimize the organization and its office bearers India Jaisng and Anand Grover .This is noting but a gross misuse of the FCRA Act which is being used to suppress any form of dissent . it is far too well know that both Anand Grover and Indira Jaising have represented several persons in their professional capacity as lawyers...
More »Foreign fund ban on Jaisingh's NGO for 6 months -Bharti Jain
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The government on Wednesday barred former additional solicitor general (ASG) Indira Jaising's NGO Lawyers Collective from receiving foreign funds for 180 days with immediate effect and asked why its licence under the Foreign Contributions (Regulation) Act, 2010, should not be cancelled over misuse and diversion of foreign contributions, including for payment of Rs 96.60 lakh as remuneration to Jaising while she was ASG. Lawyers Collective was...
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