-IANS/ Business Standard The health ministry has emphasised India can achieve the goal of population stabilisation and at present India is knocking at the door of achieving replacement level fertility India is witnessing a constant decline in the Total Fertility Rate (TFR), and as per Census 2001-2011, the sharpest decline in population has been recorded in this decade, in the last 100 years, the Centre has informed the Supreme Court. "Furthermore, as per...
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A Livelihood Project in Rajasthan's Kushalgarh Helps Women Escape Poverty -Shruti Jain
-TheWire.in The programme has been able to make a positive impact in the lives of around 3,000 tribal women by equipping them with skills in sewing, soft-toy making, clay ART, embroidery, among others. Jaipur: When Deepa had to move to Kushalgarh, a small sub-divisional township in the southern pART of Rajasthan, with her husband, she had little idea that it would alter her life substantially. Deepa’s husband, Narendra Biswas, who worked as a...
More »‘Hunger watch’ survey: In Gujarat, ‘21 pc had to sleep without single meal amid pandemic’
-The Indian Express Nearly 38 per cent respondents shared that their consumption of rice/wheat had decreased while 40.7 per cent said their consumption of pulses had come down and 57.6 per cent said their consumption of vegetables had reduced. Ahmedabad: The ‘Hunger watch’ survey carried out by Anna Suraksha Adhikar Abhiyan (ASAA), Gujarat to track the hunger situation amongst vulnerable and marginalised communities amid the of Covid-19 pandemic revealed that 20.6 per...
More »Why Farm Laws Fall Afoul of the Constitution -M Sridhar Acharyulu
-Newsclick.in These laws denude federalism and attempt to turn a nation of farmers into an agricultural market led by big business. In 2018, the Aadhaar Act was passed as a money bill, which a dissenting judgement of the Supreme Court described as a “fraud on the Constitution”. A presidential notification amended ART. 370 of the Constitution by giving an anti-democratic interpretation to ART. 367. The Citizenship Amendment Act was brought in under...
More »Comprehensive reforms, not just CCTVs, can end custodial torture -Aishwarya Mohanty and Neetika Vishwanath
-The Indian Express The realities of torture and its prosecution in India would temper our expectations from this one development. The Supreme Court needs to ensure robust implementation of its order and simultaneously plug the gaps so that incidents of torture are curtailed. In a bid to curb torture, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court recently mandated that CCTV cameras be installed in police stations and offices of other investigative agencies....
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