-Scroll.in The MTP Act disregards women’s health and rights to regulate reproduction at all costs. With its decision to end constitutional protections for abortion in the recent case of Dobbs vs Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the United States Supreme Court made that country a global outlier on abortion law and policy. At a moment when many governments around the world are liberalising their regulation of abortion care, the US has opened the...
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Kerala saw maximum landslides in 7 years: Centre -Jayashree Nandi
-Hindustan Times Kerala recorded the highest number of major landslides in the country in the past seven years, the ministry of earth sciences informed Lok Sabha on Wednesday. Of the 3,782 landslides between 2015 and 2022 so far, 2,239 alone were reported in the southern state. This was followed by West Bengal that recorded 376 landslides, Jitendra Singh, minister for earth science and science and technology, informed the House. Singh shared the data...
More »Census 2021 deferred till further orders due to pandemic, Centre tells Lok Sabha
-Scroll.in Experts say that this delay is impacting government schemes and programmes. The Union home ministry on Tuesday told the Lok Sabha that India’s decennial census 2021 has been deferred till further orders due to the Covid-19 pandemic. India’s first census was conducted in 1872. The census determines the country’s population, literacy rate, migration, and demographics like age, gender and marital status along with housing and economic activity, among other key factors. The...
More »Monk’s death over mining dispute churns Rajasthan politics ahead of election -Ishita Mishra
-The Hindu The incident has given an opportunity to the Opposition BJP to attack the ruling Congress government for ‘neglecting a long-pending public demand’. The self-immolation and death of a septuagenarian monk, Baba Vijay Das, who was protesting against mining in Bharatpur has intensified politics in Rajasthan, the State set to witness polls by the end of the next year. While both the Congress and the BJP, in their respective tenures, allowed the...
More »Interim Report of the Fact Finding Team Investigating the Stoppage of MGNREGA Wages in West Bengal
-Press release by NREGA Sangharsh Morcha dated 28 July 2022 Based on the findings NREGA Sangharsh Morcha put forth the following demands: 1. All the documents pertaining to correspondence between the Central Government and the State Government on MGNREGA since 2019, including the reports of central team visits and action taken, should be made public. 2. The Labour Budget for West Bengal for the FY 2022-23 has to be approved immediately by the...
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