-The Telegraph New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi's statement in the Lok Sabha that 60 per cent JNU students are from marginalised sections has drawn attention to the unique deprivation weightage offered by the university. Highlighting the inclusive character of the university, the Congress vice-president said the parents of 40 per cent of JNU students earned less than Rs 6,000 a month. JNU Students' Union general secretary Rama Naga, who hails from Baipariguda in Odisha's...
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Swagata Raha, Senior Legal Researcher (Consultant) at the Centre for Child and the Law, National Law School of India University (Bengaluru), speaks to Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed
-Frontline Swagata Raha, a senior legal researcher (Consultant) at the Centre for Child and the Law, National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, said the Juvenile Justice Bill, 2015, “incorrectly assumes that children are competent to stand trial as adults”. Currently pursuing Master of Studies in International Human Rights Law at the University of Oxford, Swagata Raha worked extensively on the campaign against the Juvenile Justice Bill and has written extensively...
More »The health-care crisis at our doorstep -PT Jyothi Datta
-The Hindu Business Line The Centre must act now as a year of medical mishaps across the nation comes to an end A little over three months ago, the country watched in horror when news unfolded of the death of a seven-year-old in Delhi from dengue and the subsequent suicide by his young parents. The harrowing experience of getting a simple thing like a bed in a hospital when you need it was...
More »He Died on Diwali Inside a Sewage Pipe -Subhashini Ali
-NDTV In a few days, on the 29th of November, a group of four safai karmacharis (sweepers) and three beldars (diggers) along with three more senior persons, all working for the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC), will be returning from a week-long official trip to Japan and South Korea where they are learning first-hand about sanitation, cleanliness, waste disposal as well as the maintenance of urban colonies, markets etc. The NDMC...
More »Karnataka waives interest on crop loans, announces relief package
-PTI The govt would also increase monthly widow pension from Rs 500 to Rs 2,000 in the families of farmers who had committed suicide Haveri (Karnataka): Providing succour to distressed farmers, the Karnataka government today announced waiver of interest and penal interest on crop loans from cooperative banks for the current fiscal and hike in compensation from Rs 2 lakh to Rs 5 lakh to families of farmers who had committed suicide. The...
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