KEY TRENDS • Oxfam India's 2023 India Supplement report on poverty and inequality in India reveals that the gap between the rich and the poor is widening. Following the pandemic in 2019, the bottom 50 per cent of the population have continued to see their wealth chipped away. By 2020, their income share was estimated to have fallen to only 13 per cent of the national income and have less than 3...
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Row over regressive question in CBSE English paper -Priscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu Passage blames ‘feminist revolt’ for teenage indiscipline Students, parents and national politicians have expressed outrage at the content of a reading comprehension passage in a Central Board of Secondary Education’s Class 10 English examination, held on Friday. When Anita (name changed) read the English question paper of her Class 10 Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) examination on Friday, she was shocked by the contents of the passage selected for a...
More »Child trafficking in Odisha continues unabated: 20 Teenagers rescued -Hrusikesh Mohanty
-Down to Earth The children, mostly girls, were rescued from a railway station Child trafficking has seen a spurt in Odisha — especially in tribal-dominated districts of the state — following the resumption of train services amid the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. At least 20 adolescents, mostly girls (18) aged 15-17, have been rescued by activists from non-profit Childline Foundation of India (CFI), from Berhampur railway station in Ganjam district from July...
More »66 children die by suicide in Kerala since March 25 - Neethu Joseph
-TheNewsMinute.com A special committee headed by DGP R Sreelekha has been formed to study the issue while ‘Chiri’, led by student police cadets will also provide support. 66 children and Teenagers under the age of 18 have died by suicide in Kerala since March 25, a day after the countrywide lockdown was announced to contain COVID-19. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan revealed the shocking statistic in his press meet on Thursday evening, announcing the...
More »QuaranTeen Warmline: support for Teenagers, by Teenagers -Sweta Akundi
-The Hindu QuaranTeen Warmline, a peer-to-peer support helpline, is a safe space for Teenagers to discuss their problems amid the pandemic Tara Dave spends every evening on phone calls. Not surprising for a 17-year-old, but what is unusual is that every day, she speaks to children across the country, as part of QuaranTeen Warmline, a peer-to-peer support helpline, exclusively for Teenagers aged 15 to 18, that she helms. “Many hotlines have come up...
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