In the patriarchal districts of Haryana, ASHAs are helping the state and district administration bring down touts and quacks who promise the birth of sons; doctors who sell abortion kits illegally; hospitals and quacks that disclose the sex of the foetus; and illegal abortion clinics and hospitals
Earlier this month, four women who lost their husbands in separate attacks, allegedly by cow vigilantes, in Rajasthan and Haryana, filed a plea in the Supreme Court challenging certain Sections of legislations enacted to protect cows. Yet to come to terms with the tragedies that, in some instances, claimed the lives of the sole breadwinners of the family, these women are still struggling to move on
For over two years now, thousands of labourers have been working behind giant green corrugated tin curtains to bring to life one of the biggest projects of the Narendra Modi government a new, modern Parliament building inaugurated today.
Residents of British tourist hotspots such as Brighton and Salcombe have said that a government crackdown on Airbnb short-term lets will do nothing to stop locals leaving.