-The Telegraph Three railway employees are among those not traceable Guwahati: The death toll from Thursday’s landslide in Manipur’s Noney district has risen to 20 with the recovery of 12 more bodies. Around 43 people are still missing, 16 of them from Assam. Fifteen of the dead were Territorial Army personnel deployed for the SECurity of railway staff and construction workers at the under-construction Tupul railway station yard, which was hit by the...
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Sex Workers Need to be Seen as Labour, Not Victims -Anita Tagore
-TheWire.in The re-conceptualisation of sex work as a form of sexual labour will increase sex workers’ accessibility to resources, mobilise them for representation and participation, and challenge social exclusion. One of the most unsettling debates in contemporary India has been on sex markets and sex work. Stemming from obscurantist sexual moorings of orthodoxy, the public impulse has been fragmentary. The premise underlying the internal contradiction is the delusive alienation of labour and sex. There...
More »UGC wants universities to offer up to 40% of courses online. Professors don’t see the point -Kritika Sharma
-ThePrint.in UGC Wednesday asked institutions to make courses available via govt platform SWAYAM. Academics question move, citing issues like need for classroom instruction & lack of infrastructure. New Delhi: The University Grants Commission (UGC) has asked universities to offer up to 40 per cent of the courses in any programme online on SWAYAM, the central government’s Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) platform. Academics have questioned this move, citing issues such as the need...
More »High fertiliser prices shock farmers even as ministry denies shortage reports -Shagun
-Down to Earth Farmers in different states have protested against unavailability of fertilisers Global rise in fertiliser prices due to shortage has dealt a severe blow to farmers across India, which is the SECond-largest importer of fertilisers. Many states have seen cultivators erupting in protest, even as the Centre dismissed news of low availability of fertilisers. Dattaraye P Darekar from Vinchur village in Maharashtra is worried about his soybean and maize crops sown...
More »A Fresh Spike in Farmer Suicides in Punjab -Shweta Saini, Siraj Hussain and Pulkit Khatri
-TheIndiaForum.in Since 2015, there has been a sharp rise in farmer suicides in Punjab. Farmers in the state borrow large loans at high interest rates; some of which is used for consumption. According to official data, 51% of farmer suicides in Punjab are due to a high level of indebtedness, mostly to institutions. Farmer suicides are back in focus. Media reports suggest that in April 2022 alone 14 Punjab farmers died by...
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