-PTI/ The Hindu In July, the court had asked the Centre to file a ‘detailed and exhaustive’ reply on the petition by Samyak Gangwal seeking to declare the PM CARES Fund a ‘State’ The Delhi High Court on September 16 listed for hearing on January 31 pleas concerning the legal status of the Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund (PM CARES Fund) under the Constitution and the Right...
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Darjeeling zoo adjudged the best zoo in India -Vivek Chhetri
-The Telegraph The ranking list was released by the Central Zoo Authority has Calcutta’s Alipore Zoological Garden in the fourth position Darjeeling: The Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park (PNHZP) of Darjeeling has been recognised as the best zoo in the country. Calcutta’s famous Alipore Zoological Garden has come fourth. The ranking list was released by the Central Zoo Authority (CZA) during the zoo directors' conference held at Bhubaneswar in Odisha on September 10. “It is...
More »Apply for Rural Media Fellowship 2022: An opportunity for young scribes, last date to apply -- 2nd Oct. 2022
-Press release by Village Square Youth Hub dated 5th September 2022 The Rural Media Fellowship 2022 is for young journalists to tell the powerful stories of rural India. The 9 months fellowship will include a monthly stipend of Rs 35,000 along with training from leading sector-experts. An opportunity for young passionate journalists to leverage storytelling as a tool for social change Mentorship from Industry Experts, Stipend Included Village Square Youth Hub is launching a...
More »In 2021, over 45K women died by suicide in India, 23,000 of them are housewives: NCRB data -Sharangee Dutta
-Hindustan Times The report found that Tamil Nadu (3,221) accounted for the most number of suicides among housewives, followed by Madhya Pradesh (3,055), and Maharashtra (2,861). As many as 45,026 women killed themselves in 2021 in India with more than 23,000 of them being housewives, the latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report said. This comes even as the rate of deaths by suicides across the country during the year peaked to...
More »It’s Time We Stop Blaming School Children for Their Supposed Weaknesses -Gopal Midha
-TheWire.in Meena was walking back from gym in her pink shorts when a gang of hoodlums on bikes passed lewd comments at her. She reached home and cried. Her parents listened to her hurt and then asked her to dress “more appropriately”. Rahim scored poorly once again in math and the teacher remarked, “I know this is your best effort, why don’t you take Arts after tenth?” Later, in the staff room,...
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