-The Indian Express Curbing stubble burning is about inducing behavioural changes in farmers. Given that crop residue burning has an environmental footprint and poses health hazards, one needs to be cautious while evaluating the Centre’s policy to mitigate the crisis. But there is also an urgent need for such an evaluation. The Centre has allocated Rs 1,050 crore to the states where crop residue burning poses a pollution hazard. The Union Ministry...
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What the new Coastal Regulation Zone draft says, how it differs from the earlier version -Sowmiya Ashok
-The Indian Express The new draft if implemented will not only have an effect on how common areas used by fisherfolk are managed, but also bifurcate coastal zones along rural areas based on population density. New delhi: The draft Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ), 2018, which was released by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) last week, has the potential to change the way coastal stretches in India are governed. India’s...
More »Rajinder Sachar (1923-2018) helped puncture the myth of Muslim appeasement in India -Ajaz Ashraf
-Scroll.in The former delhi High Court chief justice chaired the committee that wrote a landmark report on the status of Muslims in India. There are many reasons to remember Justice Rajinder Sachar, who died in delhi at the age of 95, on April 20. He was a former chief justice of the delhi High Court, a civil rights activist proud of his socialist credentials, and a man whose instinct it was...
More »Kathua gang rape: HC frowns on media houses for disclosing victim's identity
-PTI New delhi: The delhi High Court today frowned upon media houses for disclosing the identity of an eight-year-old girl who was gang raped and killed in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir, and asked why action be not taken against them for "injustice to the privacy and dignity of the victim". The high court also prohibited the media from revealing any further identity of the victim by any means, including name...
More »In letter to PM, 637 academics express anger over rape cases
-The Times of India NEW delhi: A group of 637 academics from India and abroad have come out in solidarity with the 49 retired civil servants who recently expressed their outrage at the Kathua and Unnao rape incidents blaming Prime Minister Narendra Modi for belatedly speaking up on the issue and claiming his dispensation wasn’t doing enough to stop the “pattern of repeated targeted attacks on minority religious communities, Dalits, tribals...
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