By Abhishek Sethi, Suganda Sharma, Kunal Pant
Shanti was 14 years old when she got married. Despite being an income provider for the family, her husband continuously harassed her and her family for dowry. She suffered the abuse for 14 years after which she decided to move out of her marital home with her children. Later, her husband apologized for his behaviour and asked her to come back on the promise to change his behaviour. Convinced, she returned to his home. But to her surprise, he resumed his harassment. One morning on October 10, 2001, threw acid over her. Suffering severe burns on the face and neck, she lost vision in one eye. Acid also dissolved her one earlobe, leaving her deaf in one ear.
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More illegal Bangladeshi migrants leaving India than entering since 2017 The New Nation
The Hindu :
The number of illegal Bangladeshi migrants caught leaving India has been double that of those who have entered the country by illegal means in the past four years, as per data disclosed by the Border Security Force (BSF) and the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB), and reported on by The Hindu.
Until December 14, 2020, the BSF apprehended 3,173 illegal migrants when they were attempting to cross over to Bangladesh. On the other hand, 1,115 persons were caught by the security forces when they trying to make their way into India through illegal means in the same period.
MUMBAI: India’s 2011 ban on endosulfan may have contributed to almost 30,000 fewer suicides by ingestion of pesticide, suggests a recent analysis.
Researchers estimated what suicide rates may have been in 2011-14 based on the previous years’ trends, and then compared those projections to the actual numbers for that period. They found 20,146 fewer male and 8,418 fewer female suicides by pesticide than expected.
Much of the decline, though, was offset by a parallel increase in suicides by hanging and other methods of poisoning, the study found, resulting in a much smaller dip in the overall cases. Among men, 92% of the decline in pesticide suicides was offset by an increase in other methods, especially hanging.
JALANDHAR/BATHINDA/PATIALA: The ‘Dilli Chalo’ move by farm groups is attracting farmers and non-farmers alike in Punjab. It is gathering pace even over 20 days since the protest began despite the December chill and deaths of some of the protesters. Farm union leaders said they have been going by a ‘one person from one family’ policy, but people have been flocking to Delhi on their own too.
On Tuesday, widows of farmers who committed suicide due to debt or other agriculture-related issues, left for Delhi’s Tikri border carrying photographs of their deceased family members. They will stay for some days in the pandals of farm organisation BKU (Ekta Ugrahan). District and tehsil units were asked to prepare lists of farm suicide-hit families, asking them to keep information ready on when the farmer committed suicide, the reason and how he took his life. If debt was the reason, families have been asked to collect details of the debt amount, landholding of the family, and whethe