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If your travel has been cancelled because of #CoronaLockdown, here is how you can get a full refund from the Indian Railways. Key highlights: • For cancelling all passenger trains for the period of 21 March to 14 April 2020,… Continue Reading →
JAN SWASTHYA ABHIYAN – MUMBAI March 21, 2020 A call to the Government of Maharashtra and MCGM to take necessary preventive measures to curtail the spread of COVID -19 in slums and homeless. The country is reeling under the impact… Continue Reading →
on February 4, 2020 “Increasing rural demand & purchasing power would have boosted the sagging economy; Budget once again betrays India’s farmers,” says ASHA New Delhi, February 1st 2020: A thorough analysis of the Budget shows that even though the Budget speech… Continue Reading →
G. Sampath I don’t try to masquerade as a desi Indian: Jean Drèze. | Photo Credit: V.V. KRISHNAN The Indian education system would be a good place to start with reforms, says the development economist Jean Drèze is possibly the… Continue Reading →
NEPALI ORGANIZATIONS CONDEMN THE POLICE ACTION AGAINST CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS IN INDIA On Tuesday, August 28, the Pune Police orchestrated house raids and arrests of several civil rights activists and intellectuals in Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Rachi, Goa and Faridabad. Among… Continue Reading →
The march will involve a caravan physically designed to invoke secular anti-caste, resistive and rationalist traditions of the modern Tamil era and of earlier literary and archaeological sources. A number of progressive student leaders, students’ groups and secular organisations are… Continue Reading →
Nikhil Dadhich, Ashish Mishra: The BJP responded to outrage over the PM following Twitter accounts spewing bile against slain journalist Gauri Lankesh, but the trolls are unrepentant. I Snigdha Poonam Hindustan Times While many protests were organised against the murder… Continue Reading →
PUDR investigated the aftermath of July 12, 2017, when Zohra Bibi, a domestic worker in Noida’s Mahagun Moderne, was severely beaten up and later went missing from her employer’s flat after allegations of theft were leveled against her…. Continue Reading →
WSS condemns the IED blast in Sukma on 11.3.2017 in which 12 CRPF personnel lost their lives and several others, including members of a road-construction crew, were injured. We express our condolences to the families of the deceased. We are… Continue Reading →
The Chhattisgarh PUCL has come to know from police releases that 3 women including a 15 year old girl from Tumnar Village under Narayanpur police station have been killed in an explosion of IED device planted by Maoists. The… Continue Reading →