-The Hindu The provision has been introduced as “airwaves/frequencies are public property and need to be used in the best interest of the society” The Union Cabinet has approved the new guidelines for uplinking and downlinking of television channels in India, under which all the stations holding permission — except for the foreign channels and where it may not be feasible, -- would have to broadcast contents on issues of national importance...
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Women’s Rights Activist and SEWA Founder Ela Bhatt Dies
-TheWire.in Bhatt is a recipient of the Padma Bhushan, India's third-highest civilian award. New Delhi: Renowned Women’s rights activist, Gandhian and founder of the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) Ela Bhatt passed away in Ahmedabad on Wednesday. She was 89. “It is with profound grief that we announce the passing away of our beloved and respected founder, Smt. Elaben Bhatt, a pioneer in advocating for Women workers’ rights, we strive to carry her...
More »Demand grows, but DNA tests fall under a grey area -Krishnadas Rajagopal and Sreeparna Chakrabarty
-The Hindu While Supreme Court has voiced concerns over their increasing use to prove a case, Women’s rights activists deem the technology an empowering tool Deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA tests occupy a grey area in the quest for justice, vacillating between the dangers of slipping into self-incrimination and encroachment of individual privacy and the ‘eminent need’ to unearth the truth, be in the form of evidence in a criminal case, a claim...
More »The pangs of India's food production, policy -R Krishnakumar
-Deccan Herald India scored 29.1 in the 2022 GHI; the index categorises scores between 20 and 34.9 as denoting a 'serious' level of hunger There is something familiarly disquieting about the manner in which the Union Government has discounted India’s low ranking in the Global Hunger Index (GHI), released earlier this month. The Ministry of Women and Child Development, in an official response, said that the methodology used in the peer-reviewed report,...
More »TV channels dominate as news source, despite poor trust levels: CSDS survey
-The Hindu Only 13% “strongly trusted” private TV news channels compared to 31% who said so about newspapers Indian news consumers’ trust in private TV news channels is relatively much lower than their belief in newspapers and yet television continues to be the dominant news source. Notably, their trust in online news websites is lower than even the private channels, while the former is the third preferred source for accessing news after...
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