-The Hindu A few thousand representatives of various people’s movements from across the country have gathered at Jantar Mantar in the national capital. They are Dalits, Adiviasis, sections of unprotected working class including farmers and fish-workers but they all form one ‘biradari’ of those who live off land, water, foRest. They are the ones who produce, distribute, build, operate, clean, sell, drive and do all that enable society to survive, proceed...
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New amendment to education Act may court trouble again-Shreya Bhandary
-The Times of India MUMBAI: A day after a notification about the amendment to the Right to Education (RTE) Act was released on the government website, unaided minority schools are busy planning their next move. This amendment clearly states that only theological schools are off the RTE hook, while the Rest, including unaided minority schools, will have to follow even the 25% reservation clause under RTE. While most are still waiting...
More »Food security, Plan Z -Jean Drèze
-The Hindustan Times Under the cover of endorsing a proposal for the National Food Security Bill framed by an independent group of development economists, the government is all set to empty the Bill of any substance. Provisions relating to the Public Distribution System (PDS) will be reduced to a pointless reshuffling of existing foodgrain allocations to state governments, that too in favour of the richer states. And other entitlements, relating for...
More »Maharahstra, TN account for 36% of sub-standard drugs -Kounteya Sinha
-The Times of India Almost one in three drugs (36%) found "not of standard quality" from across India last year were from Maharashtra (23%) and Tamil Nadu (13%) alone. Around 9.2% of the Rest of the sub-standard quality drugs were from Kerala, Gujarat (8.5%), Karnataka (7.2%), Uttar Pradesh (6.9%), Jammu & Kashmir (6.08%) and Rajasthan (5.8%). Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said on Tuesday that of the 48, 082 drug samples tested...
More »It's free, but with some Restrictions-Subimal Bhattacharjee
-The Hindustan Times In the last few days, digital technology — in the form of short messaging services (SMS) and multimedia messaging services (MMS) — has shaken the foundation of this diverse country. Thanks to the publication of hate content on the internet, there have been riot-like situations in many parts of the country. There were rumours of Muslim retaliation to the violence in Assam at the end of Ramzan, with threats...
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