Day February 16, 2018
HIGHLIGHTS The Mumbai Police arrested venture capital investor Mahesh Murthy on Feb 9th The police arrested the investor after a woman entrepreneur from Delhi approached the Delhi Police. Murthy had allegedly sent derogatory and obscene messages to the woman on… Continue Reading →
Dr. Sylvia Karpagam The government of Karnataka has been flip-flopping around the issue of healthcare. The initial posturing by the health minister about bringing the private sector under strict regulatory guidelines was welcomed by citizen groups. It also unleashed a unified, large scale protest… Continue Reading →
NOIDA: Members of a so-called ‘Gau Raksha Dal’ kept aside their cow vigilante boots and turned moral police on Valentine’s Day, harassing couples at various malls and parks in Noida and Greater Noida throughout the day. Couples seen together were also branded… Continue Reading →
Shehla Come back on Facebook By – Rahman Abbas Former JNUSU vice-president and well-known student activist Shehla Rashid was reportedly forced to deactivate her Facebook account , as some Muslim youths issued multiple rape threats and hate messages… Continue Reading →
Often just an excuse to exacerbate tensions between religious communities by A.A.K. | MUMBAI MANY stock images of India’s cities show cows lying by the roadside or ruminating in the middle of the street as cars and bikes swerve around them…. Continue Reading →
The Network of Women in Media, India, (NWMI) a forum for women media professionals from across the country, is shocked to read that the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has laid down what it considers to be the “moral duty of a journalist‘”,… Continue Reading →
Trikha, resident of Gandhi Nagar locality of Nashik, was struggling for the past eight months to get an Aadhaar card, but he was turned away by several Aadhaar registration centres because it was difficult to collect his fingerprints. A woman… Continue Reading →
Neha Dabhade Historical figures are complex and shaped by the context they lived out of. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel is no exception. Vallabhbhai Patel popularly known as the “indomitable iron man” of India is credited with unifying India when India was… Continue Reading →
MUMBAI: Despite the “progressive” tag, Maharashtra spends just Rs 996 per capita on the healthcare needs of its citizens and should increase its public health budget by almost 50%, said Jan Arogya Abhiyan(JAA), a network of NGOs. “So-called less developed states such as… Continue Reading →
Ashwaq Masoodi, LiveMint, The average Dalit woman dies 14.6 years younger than women from higher castes, says the UN report New Delhi: The average Dalit woman in India dies 14.6 years younger than women from higher castes. While identities,… Continue Reading →