-The Telegraph Study records targeting of minorities during pandemic, including use of social media handles like ‘#CoronaJihad’ New Delhi: The Washington-based think tank Pew Research Centre has come out with a study that puts India at the top of its index of social hostilities involving religion in 2020 in the context of the impact of Covid restrictions. The study has recorded the targeting of minorities in India during the pandemic, including the use...
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India imposes export curbs on rice as domestic prices rise & paddy area shrinks -Sayantan Bera
-ThePrint.in Twenty per cent export tax on several varieties of rice. 'Circumstances exist which render it necessary to take immediate action', says revenue dept notification. New Delhi: India, the world’s largest exporter of rice, Thursday imposed a 20 per cent export tax on several varieties of rice in a bid to tame domestic prices. According to a notification issued by the department of revenue, all export of paddy (unmilled rice), brown rice and...
More »Unsolved murders: Yet again, India is among 12 countries where killers of journalists can get away -Diksha Munjal
-Newslaundry.com India figures on the Global Impunity Index 2021 alongside Somalia, Syria, Iraq, South Sudan, Pakistan and Afghanistan. On August 8 this year, Chennakesavulu, a journalist with a local news channel EV-5 in Andhra Pradesh’s Kurnool, was stabbed to death with a screwdriver. He was allegedly killed by a police constable and his brother for exposing the constable’s illegal activities on a show aired on the news channel. The state police ordered an...
More »Hall of shame: India is one of 12 countries where killers of journalists go free easily
-Newslaundry.com It ranks 12th on the CPJ’s Global Impunity Index 2020, one position worse than last year’s. India is one of the dozen countries that fare the worst when it comes to prosecuting killers of journalists, according to the Global Impunity Index 2020 prepared by the Committee to Protect Journalists. The index “spotlights countries where journalists are singled out for murder and their killers go free”, the CPJ explained in its report titled...
More »India's workforce is masculinizing rapidly -Rukmini S
-Livemint.com Fewer women are working now, and those who are work long hours for low pay, data from India’s latest official employment survey show Just nine countries around the world, including Syria and Iraq, now have a fewer proportion of working women than India, new official data confirms. And if Bihar were a country, it would have the lowest share of working women in the world. Among urban women who do work,...
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