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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The Draft Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019, currently being finalised by the Joint Parliamentary Committee, does not protect citizens from illegal surveillance and the wrongful use of data collected by state or private parties.
India’s graded educational system mirrors the country’s stubbornly rigid social hierarchies. The poorest children attend the free government-run schools and those from the highest echelons of Indian society increasingly attend elite schools, with the rest of the society caught in between.
As per the CMIE, India’s LPR has further fallen to 40.15% last month. This means 60% of employable people in India have fallen off the job market. Other Asian economies like Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam etc. have over 60% employable people actively looking for jobs.
A government bill to raise the legal age of marriage for women from 18 to 21 will not prevent early or forced weddings, will deem many marriages of those between 18-21 illegal, and criminalise elopement by girls dodging domestic abuse, confinement, forced marriage.
The rulers of “Naya Bharat” have introduced an imbalance in the civil-military equation. And if the politicians seek acceptability on the back of the soldiers’ sacrifice, the generals in turn will aspire to a louder voice in shaping the republic’s collective destiny.
The law enacted in 1958 aimed at controlling insurgency and cross border militancy, but successive governments at the Centre have been reluctant to withdraw it even after peace is restored. In wake of the Nagaland killings, this article explores how AFSPA gives unbridled power to the armed forces.
In the past 12 years, a group of 51 Dalit women in Ahmedabad district have converted around 36 acres of the government’s “non-useful” wasteland into fertile farms that yield two crops a year. They are now demanding that the state govt. grant them ownership of the land under Gujarat’s Santhani scheme.
The very existence of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act undermines constitutional principles such as the right to life and liberty.
Press Release: The Shaheen Bagh movement never ended, it continues to inspire us in our ongoing struggles to defend democratic rights and assert equal citizenship. On its 2nd anniversary, let us remember this powerful struggle, and organise solidarity actions across the country on 16 Dec 2021.
A recent report by International IDEA, an inter-governmental think tank, finds that “70% of the global population now live either in non-democratic regimes or in democratically backsliding countries”. The report cites Brazil, India and the United States as the biggest backsliders globally.
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