Human Rights

Budget Expectation: Rights Body For Enhanced Funding For Child Welfare

Noting a “constant decline” in budgetary allocation for children amid malnourishment, child labour and lack of education, rights body CRY has advocated for an incr...

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Give Us Back Our River

One part of the Ennore creek, covered with a layer of black mass, lies still like a corpse. Another channel of dark water, the Buckingham Canal, which carries petroleum efflue...

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Human Rights Report Cites Host Of Violations

The Telangana Chapter of Working Group on Human Rights in India and UN released the ‘Human Rights in India Joint Stakeholders’ Report’ for UN Universal Perio...

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Delhi Molestation: India Not Ready For Sex Offenders Registry, Says Child Rights Lawyer

Independent advocate Anant Asthana specialises in child rights and has over the years represented juveniles in a large number of cases. He works closely with the Juvenile Just...

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A New Corporate Benchmark For Human Rights

There needs to be specific grids that periodically track government and sector-specific companies on business and human rights parameters I would like to propose an item for t...

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A Chocolate Candy Aims To Make The World Think About Hunger

It is a very attractive truffle.It's made of the usual ingredients — cocoa butter, sugar, chocolate — with a not-so-typical addition. Thirty grams of dried tomatoe...

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What Muslim Registry Will Look Like: #DontNormalizeHate

As we head toward Inauguration Day with a president-elect who refuses to back down on plans to create a registry of Muslim Americans, the threat of history repeating itself ha...

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Migrant moment

At the end of a long exchange where they debated the origins of the senses, philosopher Yajnavalakya asked King Janak, “If a person such as yourself, equipped with wealt...

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Street Children To Get Access To Health Services, Education By Providing Them Aadhaar Cards

Street children will be provided Aadhaar cards to enable them to take admission in schools and access government health services. The Standard Operating Procedure for Care and...

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Indian Women Seeing Abortions Beyond 20 Weeks Face Desperate Legal Struggles

On Monday, the Supreme Court allowed a woman from Mumbai who is 24 weeks pregnant to have an abortion because her foetus had anancephaly – a life threatening condition i...

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ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: THE MANY WAYS WE LOOKED IN 2025

A sweeping year-end chronicle of cinema, culture, memory, rebellion, and conscience&mdas...

December 17 2025

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: DOING IT MY WAY

Lately, it’s been raining awards and accolades on the path-breaking multi-media ac...

December 16 2025

POWERFUL PEOPLE: LISTENING TO LIVES

Journalist, author, translator, and cultural chronicler Sathya Saran reflects on a life ...

December 15 2025