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Modi government is misusing the ‘fake news’ tag to try to evade media scrutiny -Shoaib Daniyal

-Scroll.in During the coronavirus pandemic, India needs a free press more than ever. These intimidation tactics do not help. Publishing news based on information from credible, unidentified sources is a global journalistic practice. This allows critical facts to surface even if sourcexsce afraid of repercussions. In India, though, the government is creating an atmosphere in which journalists will be afraid of publishing such material. On Sunday, the Delhi Police summoned an Indian Express...

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Expand rural job scheme: Activists -Achintya Ganguly

-The Telegraph 'The base of the MGNREGA beneficiaries needs to be broadened by including more deserving people as its beneficiaries' Ranchi: The rural job guarantee law can be a saviour for scores of workers who have lost their jobs during the ongoing lockdown and are returning to their villages, a group of social workers have underlined. Jharkhand NREGA Watch, a group of social workers who describe it as a forum of concerned citizens,...

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J&K: 3 Photographers Win Pulitzer for Coverage of Life After Dilution of Article 370

-TheWire.in Dar Yasin, Mukhtar Khan and Channi Anand have expressed joy and said that they never expected the prize. New Delhi: Photographers Dar Yasin, Mukhtar Khan and Channi Anand, based in JAMmu and Kashmir, have been awarded this year’s prestigious Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. The Pulitzer citation said the award was for “striking images of life” by the photographers in what it called “the contested territory of Kashmir” in the aftermath...

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No relief for the nowhere people -Ravi Srivastava

-The Hindu Policy responses to the migrant crisis reinforce the idea of two Indias JAMalo Makdam, 12, died on April 18 walking back from the chilli fields of Telangana to her home in Chhattisgarh. She and a group of other workers decided to return home on foot, as many migrant workers did, after losing their jobs, incomes and even accommodation following the announcement of a nationwide lockdown. Her journey ended in death,...

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Thousands of smallholder women poultry farmers lose business to coronavirus misconceptions -Ajit Kanitkar and Deepak Tushir

-VillageSquare.in More than ten thousand tribal and Dalit small holder poultry farmers who had successfully built cooperative enterprise and escaped poverty, were forced to cull chickens due to rumors linking spread of coronavirus to chicken consumption Hoshangabad (Madhya Pradesh): Kunti Dhurve is a small holder poultry producer from JAMundol village in Kesla administrative block of Hoshangabad District in Madhya Pradesh. Out of the total 15,000 households in Kesla, about 9,000 are tribal...

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