-The Hindu In doing so, we risk the disengagement of those most invested in preserving our democratic institutions Ethical explorations often begin with emotional injury. Something simply feels wrong, and you ask yourself whether you are missing an important bit of information or the right perspective. This happened when I read the Supreme Court judgment pronouncing senior lawyer Prashant Bhushan guilty of criminal contempt for his two “scurrilous” Tweets. I have known...
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At the forefront of India’s healthcare system, ASHA workers soldier on — unprotected and poorly paid -Anuradha Raman
-The Hindu Every government health scheme, including the one to fight COVID-19, needs ASHA workers to implement it at the grassroots level. So why can’t they at least be paid on time? If Anita Sharma*, an ASHA worker (or Accredited Social Health Activist), had a Twitter account, she could have tagged @drharshvardhan, the health minister, and introduced herself thus: My name is Anita. My job profile has changed since the coronavirus pandemic....
More »No documents need to be produced for NPR: Union Home Ministry
-The Hindu “Details given by people to enumerators will be accepted,” Union Home Ministry spokesperson says. The Union Home Ministry on Wednesday clarified that no person needs to submit any documents during the house-to-house survey for updating the National Population Register and that information provided by individuals would be accepted and recorded. Through a series of Tweets, the Ministry sought to deny the thrust of a report in The Hindu headlined NPR trial...
More »Ayushman Bharat Claims Touch Rs 3,077 Crore, Gujarat Tops List -Anoo Bhuyan
-TheWire.in Until now, no data on Ayushman Bharat had been made available other than in Tweets by the National Health Authority. New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government has finally revealed some numbers on its flagship Ayushman Bharat health insurance scheme in response to a question asked in parliament this session. In spite of having been popularised as the “world’s largest healthcare scheme” since 2018, data pertaining to the scheme has so far only...
More »Amnesty lens on abusive Tweets against 100 women LS candidates -Priscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu ‘It’s not just trolling, it’s an abuse of human rights’ New Delhi: Launching a crowd-sourced study on the abuse that Indian women politicians face on Twitter, Amnesty India says online trolling aimed at threatening and silencing them must be considered a human rights violation. “It’s so easy for men to dismiss it as just ‘trolling’, but we are talking about rape threats, death threats, stalking…words which can lead to deep physical...
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