-PTI/ NDTV.com At the outset, Advocate General for Tamil Nadu Amit Anand Tiwari submitted that Tamil Nadu has come out with the vaccination mandate for the reason that vaccination against COVID-19 is essential to prevent serious disease in the population. New Delhi: The Centre on Tuesday clarified in the Supreme Court that it has not made COVID-19 vaccines mandatory and has only said that the vaccination should be 100 per cent. The...
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'Silent Majority' Supported the Three Farm Laws: SC-Appointed Committee Report
-TheWire.in (with PTI inputs) Anil Ghanwant, one of the three members of the committee, made the report public on Monday. Mumbai: Barely four months after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the repeal of the three farm laws which fanned protests across numerous sites in India, and only a few days after the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly results, the report of the Supreme Court-appointed committee on farm laws has been released in the...
More »Provide Universal Access to Food Security, Says Rights Group to Modi
-TheWire.in "With the additional grains under PMGKAY also set to stop after March 2022, the hunger crisis is likely to exacerbate in the country," the Right to Food Campaign said. New Delhi: The Right to Food Campaign has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi about the “crisis” in income decline and severe food insecurity, especially among the economically weaker and marginalised sections of society due to the COVID-19 pandemic, saying the Pradhan...
More »Harsh Mander: Covid-19 has left India’s workers more powerless than ever before -Harsh Mander
-Scroll.in They are now alone in the world, hungry, jobless and with zero bargaining power and protection – and the employers know that. It was early on a rainy morning in early August 2021, when the dreaded second wave was just abating. We drove to Company Bagh, in the Walled City of Old Delhi, to check if work had revived for Delhi’s casual daily wage workers. Thousands of these workers gather every...
More »India’s MMR at 103; UP, MP, Assam, Chhattisgarh Still Above 150 – Higher Than SDG goal
-The Wire Science New Delhi: India’s maternal mortality ratio (MMR) has improved to 103 for the period between 2017 and 2019. However, despite an overall improvement, the ratio has remained the same for some states, according to the Sample Registration System’s (SRS) estimate released by the Registrar General of India. In some states, like West Bengal, Haryana and Uttarakhand, the ratio has worsened. As per the 2020 data, during the period of...
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