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Delhi Child Rights Body Refutes NCPCR's Allegations on Shelter Homes Associated With Harsh Mander Mander and other rights activists had earlier said that the NCPCR’s raids were politically motivated and a part of the Centre’s witch-hunt against its critics. Harsh Mander. Photo: Facebook Rights2 hours ago New Delhi: The Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR), in an affidavit submitted to the Delhi high court, has contradicted a majority of the incriminating claims made by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) about two childcare homes establi...

Over 180 Signatories Urge Opposition Parties to Step up Action to Combat COVID-19 Pandemic The open letter expresses dismay over the Centre's disregard towards suggestions from the opposition parties to work together and fight the unprecedented situation India is facing. A COVID-19 patient on oxygen support waits to be admitted at Patna Medical College and Hospital, during the second wave of coronavirus in Patna, Friday, May 14, 2021. Photo: PTI Rights2 hours ago New Delhi: As many as 187 eminent academics, activists, journalists, authors, filmmakers and professionals from across the world...

There is an urgent need to strengthen the public distribution system and the MGNREGS

Harsh Mander: A lesson in how to end the mass suffering unleashed by India’s first lockdown A report by the collective Hunger Watch reveals the extent of continuing hunger caused by state policy, and recommends ways to end the distress. 2 hours ago A migrant worker feeds her child water while they wait in a queue for transport to reach Ahmedabad railway station to board a train to their home state of Uttar Pradesh. | Amit Dave/Reuters A spectacularly uncaring, unaccountable state has abandoned Indians to their fate. Bodies are piling up, pyres burn late into the ni...

A bullet train to hunger Updated: Updated: The pandemic has highlighted the importance of expanding social security nets Share Article The pandemic has highlighted the importance of expanding social security nets Pinki is a 28-year-old Dalit woman from Saharanpur, U.P. Her husband met with an accident during the national lockdown in April 2020. The two of them had to sell all their belongings for his treatment and subsequently became dependent on her parents. Such avoidable miseries were heaped on millions due to the unilateral national lockdown in 2020. The monthly report from the Finance ...