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Month January 2018

KV teacher – Girls wearing lipstick, short dress are asking for rape #Vaw #WTFnews

Rashmi Drolia|  HIGHLIGHTS A biology teacher of Raipur Kendra Vidyalaya said that wearing revealing clothes “incites crimes like that of the Nirbhaya gangrape” The girls of Class IX and XI secretly taped Shankhwar’s ‘counselling sessions’ and shared the audio clippings… Continue Reading →

Mumbai’s evergreen 82-yr-old Gandhian- Daniel Mazgaonkar #mustshare

Daniel Mazgaonkar toured the nation with Vinoba Bhave, and continues to support various voices of democracy | Jyoti Punwani Last July, he was spotted at the #NotInMyName morcha in Dadar. In 2014, he could be seen doing a jig at… Continue Reading →

Prakash Raj – Her death has sprouted new voices like trees’: tribute on ‘Gauri Day’ #GauriLankesh

“When it is a normal death we can pay tribute but when it is a death like Gauri’s, it has created voices to fight against forces that killed her,” said Prakash Raj. Prajwal Bhat “Gauri’s voice hasn’t been silenced, it… Continue Reading →

Rajasthan, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh Get Contempt Notice From SC On Cow Vigilantism

Last September, the Supreme Court had asked 26 states to maintain law and order and prevent violence by cow vigilantes by deputing nodal officers and highway patrol. A man was beaten to death by cow vigilantes at Rajasthan’s Alwar in… Continue Reading →

Maharashtra: Farmer who attempted suicide at secretariat dies

Opposition blames govt MUMBAI: The 84-year-old farmer, who had consumed a poisonous chemical at the Maharashtra secretariat here on January 22 seeking adequate compensation for land, died at the JJ Hospital tonight, police said. The farmer, Dharma Patil, had consumed the… Continue Reading →

Maharashtra – 90-Year-Old Grandmother and school girls Challenges Virginity Test #Vaw

Chaitraly Deshmukh and Benita Fernando As The First All-India Khap Panchayat Meet Comes Up To Discuss Traditional Practices In Modern Times, A 90-Year-Old Great Grandmother, A Young Female Executive And Schoolgirls From Pune‘s Kanjarbhat Community Challenge The Virginity Test At… Continue Reading →

Happy Birthday, Gauri Lankesh! #GauriDay

Politician Jignesh Mewani, JNU leaders Kanhaiya Kumar, Shehla Rashid, Umar Khalid, actor Prakash Raj and Radhika Vemula  attend the event. Gauri Lankesh would have turned 56 years old today  if she had not been shot dead by unknown assailants in… Continue Reading →

Is it true? A day in Madhu Kishwar’s WhatsApp University

By Sam Jawed  –   Madhu Kishwar found herself in the eye of a storm with her tweet naming five random Muslims as attackers of the school bus in Gurugram. What was so far a vile rumor found endorsement from… Continue Reading →

World Leprosy Day – Global focus on ending transmission among children

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says national programmes should boost active case-finding, strengthen surveillance, improve contact-tracing and focus more on early detection of leprosy cases among children to ensure achievement of the global target of zero child infection by 2020…. Continue Reading →

India – ATS investigations in 2006 Mumbai train bombings under question

Prateek Goyal & Mubarak Ansari Pune: The State Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), which has had its share of controversies in the past, seems to be under a cloud again following the recent claim by the Delhi Police Special Cell regarding involvement… Continue Reading →

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