With the government lifting curbs imposed due to pollution, schools are all set to reopen in Delhi. But experts say Delhi air still ‘very poor’ with severe health risks, especially for children
After the recommendation of a Parliamentary committee that the medium of instruction in technical and non-technical higher educational institutes such as IITs should be Hindi, the latest bone of contention is the MPLADS draft guidelines.
From the way the contract was handed over to the private company to the measures taken by the government in the aftermath of the bridge collapse - including the payment of compensation, the family members of the victims of the Morbi tragedy say the man-made disaster exposes the chinks in the Gujarat government's armour.
From domestic abuse, sexual violence, and custodial torture to discrimination, social boycott and mysterious death - Lucknow’s sex workers share their harrowing experiences.
Instead of increasing punishments for pharma companies, they are reducing them, and there will be long-term public health consequences if pharmaceutical companies do not have the right incentives under the law to produce the highest quality medicine, says Prashant Reddy, advocate and author of “The Truth Pill.”
In 2021, 1.55 lakh lives were lost in road crashes in India. That amounts to an average of 426 accidents every day. This is a record, unprecedented in scale, unpardonable in an era when sound road and vehicular design, stringent law enforcement and technology could smartly arrest the dangerous slide.
With crores of people still unable to access the government’s ration scheme, activists say the government must immediately conduct the census and widen the net for its coverage under the National Food Security Act.
One of the world’s ‘hottest’ biodiversity hotspots, the Western Ghats, is in dire straits yet again. Rasheed Kappan explains why the threat is massive this time around.
RTI revisions and reforms seem to be the need of the hour. The sixteen-year-old RTI act is bogged by several bottlenecks and calls for immediate intervention.