-NDTV.com The accused is the same person who fired on anti-citizenship law protesters near Delhi's Jamia Millia University in January last year; he was then only 17 years old Chandigarh: In a significant ruling, a Haryana court on Friday rejected the bail plea of a 19-year-old man arrested this week for allegedly making hate speeches - he allegedly made comments urging the abduction and killing of girls from a particular religious community...
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Last resort: Indians in distress are selling gold & third wave could only make it worse -Swansy Afonso
-ThePrint.in The likelihood of financial distress caused by the 2nd wave is much higher & it could lead to more outright sales of gold, unlike in 2020, when people chose to take out loans against gold. Mumbai: Paul Fernandes, a 50-year-old waiter in India, last year took out a loan using his gold as collateral to pay for his children’s education after losing his job on a cruise liner. This year, he...
More »With fewer migrants returning in COVID 2.0, U.P. says many stayed back after 1st wave
-The Hindu U.P. was the only State to do a skill mapping exercise of returning migrants last year, says an official Just four lakh migrant workers returned to Uttar Pradesh during the second COVID-19 wave this year, compared to 40 lakh workers after the national lockdown of 2020, indicating many of these workers may not have returned to their earlier workplaces after the first wave and got gainfully employed in U.P., top...
More »COVID-19: Child immunisation pushed back by years in India during 2020 -Banjot Kaur
-Down to Earth As many as 23 million children across the world did not get routine vaccines, according to WHO-Unicef analysis Several years of progress made in routine immunisation in India has been undone due to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). According to an estimate released by the World Health Organization (WHO) and Unicef July 15, 2021, as many as 3,038,000 children in India did not receive the first dose of Diptheria-Tetanus-Pertusis...
More »Making welfare conditional is a stamp of coercion -Suhrith Parthasarathy
-The Hindu A simple reading of U.P.’s draft population control law is that it will grossly impinge on the right to reproductive freedom On Sunday, the government of Uttar Pradesh released a “Population Policy” in which it stated its intention to bring the gross fertility rate in the State down from the existing 2.7 to 2.1 by 2026. To achieve this, the government says it will consider the enactment of a new...
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