The garment industry, mostly geared to exports to the West, has laid off most of its employees. They now face an uncertain future as business will be slow to take off even after the pandemic By the end of May, Anjali had informed her office – a garment export house situated in Delhi, boasting an […]

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When a Kerala activist uploaded a video of her children painting on her bare body, it raised quite a storm on social media as well as in the courtroom. Questions of morality and legality are still looking for answers A mother has been charged and arrested under various sections of the Protection of Children from […]

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When a murderer who was released early due to ‘good behaviour’ raped and tortured a minor girl, it exposed flaws in the rehabilitation programme in our prison system  In the first week of August, a minor girl child was raped and tortured in Delhi’s Peeragarhi area of Paschim Vihar. The accused had reportedly come with […]

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During the lockdown, social media emerged as an effective tool to move authorities to help bonded labour, especially when migrants themselves made videos about their predicament   An owner of a brick kiln in UP’s Azamgarh intercepted his labourers as they walked to another site. The five labourers, including a woman, had been demanding to be […]

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DDA’s land deals are under scrutiny again. But they are stonewalling attempts by a law firm to access the papers that could expose wrongdoing  The notorious Delhi Development Authority (DDA), known for rigged lottery system to allot houses and substandard housing construction, has a new challenge to its image. Its land dealings are now under […]

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Since its launch in 2016, Jio has been expanding its reach — and there’s no end to it It was 2016 when Reliance Industries launched Jio and created panic amongst the leaders of wireless service providers, resulting in a price war as it offered free calling and considerably low data costs. This pulled in thousands, […]

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Chewing tobacco and pan stimulates a desire to spit — an activity that is banned during the pandemic. So why are these products selling despite a ban and the danger to public health? An addiction which could help spread the Covid-19 pandemic — which has already killed 34,252 people in India and infected 15,35,335 — […]

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Most Nepalese students are well adjusted in India and will keep coming, the bigger deterrent for female students being ragging. People to people contact still endures Richa Karki called India ‘home’ for most of her life. She first arrived in India’s Kalimpong from Nepal’s Kathmandu to join school in the 1st grade. “I spent so […]

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