-TheWire.in With a deep understanding of the extent of loss brought by this man-made disaster, she crusaded all her life so survivors could receive compensation and medical care. Bhopal: Hamida Bi, an activist and the president of Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sangathan (BGPMUS), who worked with thousands of desperately poor survivors of the 1984 tragedy passed away on Tuesday, December 29. She was 74. Raeesa Bi, one of her close friends and...
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Nurse shortage hits homecare -Sanjay Mandal
-The Telegraph The demand for nurses and attendants has gone up by more than 20 per cent in the past couple of weeks, due to rise in the number of non-Covid cases Calcutta: An increased demand for homecare and nursing assistance has left many Covid patients in Calcutta who are getting discharged from hospital without help even as family members are desperately calling up homecare service providers. Several such agencies who provide trained...
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-OutlookIndia.com The health authorities fear that the cases will see a further spike in the next few days Forty-five deaths in the past 72 hours, of which 13, highest ever in a single day on Wednesday, has put Himachal Pradesh on high alert. The health authorities fear that the cases will see a further spike in the next few days during the winter. Those who have lost their lives, during the past some days,...
More »Upper castes are trying to suppress us: Father of Nishad girl raped, murdered in UP’s Jaunpur -Sunil Kashyap and Shahid Tantray
-CaravanMagazine.in “The Thakurs in the village threatened me and said, ‘We will beat you so much you will go bald,’” a middle-aged Nishad resident of the Peshawa Mai Ghat village in the Jaunpur district of Uttar Pradesh, told us. The Nishads are a riverine community who were categorised as a Scheduled Caste in the state in 2019. On 30 May, the Nishad man’s minor daughter was found raped and murdered a...
More »Farm Bills A False Experiment In The Name Of Agricultural Freedom -Navyug Gill
-OutlookIndia.com With the farm bills, The BJP is not so much conducting an experiment as it is following a predictable agenda of right-wing accumulation by dislocation and obfuscation. For the last three weeks, thousands of peasants and their supporters have blockaded roads and rails and marched on government buildings in Punjab, Haryana and elsewhere in north India. This is in response to the BJP government's rushed passing of three controversial farm bills...
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