A civilization’s greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest citizens, and Delhi has failed its transgender population all this while. The time for change is now, writes Aqsa Shaikh.
Two trans men were allegedly assaulted by a UP cop who wanted to forcibly take his adult son (trans man) from a Gurugram shelter home. Why are rules different for law enforcers? Ashutosh Dixit explains!
The Probe’s Raja Muzaffar Bhat reports on the allegations of corruption in the appointments of the administrative staff at the J&K High Court, Subordinate Courts, State Judicial Academy and Legal Services Authority amongst others.
The Probe accesses an exclusive copy of the internal document of the Irrigation and Flood Control Department of the Jammu and Kashmir government that reveals how Doodh Ganga is being plundered of its mineral reserves
The latest National Crime Records Bureau data on dowry deaths is revealing. The Probe’s Bhaswati Sengupta talks to Ankit Mishra, who has been knocking at various doors in Uttar Pradesh to bring his sister’s murderers to justice. Bhaswati reports that the institutionalisation of dowry, coupled with a sluggish justice delivery mechanism, has made the social evil of dowry a socially accepted practice in India.
“If the choice is between poverty and a septic tank, I will choose the septic tank” - An age-old battle for dignity that India’s sanitation workers are losing.
Inter-company competition, government interference, wrong policies, a timid IRDAI and lack of functional autonomy - all have resulted in the PSU insurers losing out to private players, writes Neeraj Thakur.
Demonetisation, unfulfilled assurances by banks, covid-19 and corruption forced Avinash, an educationist - who once owned three schools in Delhi-NCR - to take up the shovel and become a farmer.
Many riverine districts in the state continue to be affected by riverbank erosion every year, and the erosion has affected many farmers forcing them to migrate to other parts for survival. Mitigating riverbank erosion is a significant challenge for the Assam government, but this needs a comprehensive strategy, which the state is yet to formulate, writes Rajeev Bhattacharyya.