India’s Top 1 Percent Controls More Than 40.5 Percent Of Country’s Wealth: Oxfam
An Oxfam International study has revealed that the richest 1 percent of Indians owned more than 40.5 percent of the country’s wealth in 2021, while the bottom half of the population (700 million) owned around 3 percent. It added that between November 2019 and the beginning of the pandemic, billionaires in India saw their wealth […]
Rural India Suffering From Dearth Of Physicians And Paramedics: Health Ministry
India’s Community Health Centres (CHCs) are suffering from a shortage of nearly 80 percent of the specialists they need, as per findings published in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Rural Health Statistics (RHS) report. As the first point of contact between people and the health care system, a Sub Centre (SC) serves as […]
Centre To Scrap VIP Haj Quota: Smriti Irani
The Indian government has decided to discontinue the VIP Haj quota, which was open to those in prominent constitutional positions and the Minority Affairs Ministry. Union Minority Affairs Minister Smriti Irani, on Wednesday, claimed that the action has been implemented as part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s effort to combat ‘VIP culture’. “VIP culture was […]
Mohan Bhagwat Advocates For LGBTQ+ Rights, Says Sangh Must Support Community’s Right To Private Space
An interview published by right-wing affiliated Organiser and Panchjanya magazines has revealed that Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat is in favour of gay rights. Reportedly, during the course of the interview, Bhagwat said that the newfound aggression among Hindus all over the world was the result of a new awakening in a society […]
Explainer: What Triggered The Sinking Of Joshimath?
Joshimath has at least 678 houses with major or minor cracks on their walls, ceilings, or floors. In addition, several houses have had their foundations affected as the land on which the town is built continues to sink. The Uttrakhand town has been declared a disaster-prone area, with 30 percent of the area affected, and […]
Consensual Intercourse After False Promise Of Marriage Not Rape: Odisha High Court
A recent judgement by the Odisha High Court has ruled that consensual sex conducted under the pretext of marriage does not constitute rape. During the bail hearing for a defendant accused of such an allegation, the single-judge bench of Justice Sanjeeb Panigrahi granted him bail, observing that “the intention of the lawmakers is clear on […]
Iran Issues Warning To France After Charlie Hebdo’s ‘Insulting’ Caricatures Of Ayatollah Khamenei
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, was allegedly insulted by cartoons published by French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, on Wednesday, following which the country warned France of retaliation. As part of a competition it launched in December to support the three-month-old anti-hijab movement, the weekly publication published dozens of cartoons ridiculing the highest religious and […]
Maharashtra Power Companies’ Employees Stage Three-day Protest As State Govt Evokes MESMA
As the state government invoked the Maharashtra Essential Services Maintenance Act (MESMA), thousands of workers from three state-owned power companies embarked on a 72-hour strike on Wednesday, to protest their privatisation, as explained by a leader from the employees’ union. The provisions of the act restrain the essential service employees of the three state-run power […]
Mumbai: Jain Community Continues Protest Against Turning Shri Sammed Shikharji Into A Tourist Spot
The Jain community in Mumbai organised a huge rally on Wednesday, to protest the Jharkhand government’s decision to declare the ‘sacred’ Shri Sammed Shikharji as a tourist attraction. The organisers alleged that more than one lakh people will attend the rally, starting from Metro and ending at Azad Maidan, where prominent leaders will speak in […]
Delhi Sultanpuri Accident Case: What Are The Developments So Far?
Initial contact regarding the tragedy in Delhi’s Sultanpuri area was received at around 3:24 am on Sunday, when the caller reported a grey Baleno pulling a body along with its tyres, dragging it for about 12 kms. A day after the killing of the 20-year-old woman, in an exclusive interview with India Today, AAP MLA […]
