-TheNewsMinute.com Social workers tell TNM that very often domestic violence survivors are discouraged from filing a complaint with police officials focusing on compromise and counselling. Recently, Brinda Adige, a Bengaluru-based feminist activist and a volunteer-mentor at Global Concerns India, spent seven days running pillar to post to help a domestic violence survivor in Bengaluru register a complaint. She and the survivor had gone to a women’s police station, but Brinda alleges that...
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Massive Fire Destroys Delhi’s Only Rohingya Camp -Tarique Anwar
-Newsclick.in This is not an isolated incident. This was the fifth conflagration in the camp over the past nine years. New Delhi: It was a usual night for Zahid Hussain. Unaware of what destiny has in store for him and others, the 23-year-old, like his fellow Burmese refugee neighbours in the Rohingya camp in South East Delhi’s Kanchan Kunj, had gone to bed after having dinner at 10 pm on June 12....
More »India’s investment in research unsatisfactory: UNESCO report -Tiki Rajwi
-The Hindu Gross domestic expendiTure on research has stayed at 0.7% of the GDP for years While India has made ‘solid progress’ towards the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets concerning industry, infrastrucTure and innovation, the country’s investment in research remains unsatisfactory, the UNESCO Science Report has observed. The gross domestic expendiTure on research (GERD) has been stagnant at 0.7% of the GDP for years, although, in absolute terms, research expendiTure has increased, the...
More »Why the poor are leaning right -Pranab Bardhan
-Business Standard How support for left and right-leaning parties is changing in social composition Some decades back the typical voting pattern in many democracies used to be that the rich and upper middle classes used to vote in general for right-leaning parties, while the relatively poor voted for left-leaning parties. But in recent decades this pattern has been shifting: many of the professional or more educated voters in some of those countries...
More »Doorstep delivery of rations sounds like a good idea -- but it actually raises many hard questions -Reetika Khera
-Scroll.in The debate over the proposal has Turned into a political slugfest. Crucial questions remain unaddressed. In 2016, the Delhi government ran a pilot in 42 out of its roughly 2,500 Public Distribution System outlets. At these outlets, Aadhaar-based biometric authentication was introduced at the time of sale of grain to ration card holders. A survey was done by students of Lady Shri Ram College at one of the pilot PDS outlets, incidentally...
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