The Government of India has decided to ban Chinese apps, following rising tensions in the Ladakh region after 20 Indian soldiers were killed in conflict. Tik Tok was one of the most popular apps in India.
The Aarogya Setu app is one such step among these proactive measures taken by the government. Here is all you need to know about it.
The pandemic not only leads to financial instability but also heightened the mental health problems for the sex workers. All they need is relief packages and secure future from the government.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday lashed out at the Bihar government for the alleged rape of minor girls in a Muzzafarpur shelter home run by an NGO. The SC said, “It seems that these activities are state financed” and added that women are being raped “left, right and centre” in the country, reported TOI. Court questions […]
A government shelter home in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, is being dug up by a team of policemen after there were allegations that over 40 girls were raped and one murdered in the building. A special investigation team has been appointed to investigate the matter. What happened? It is alleged that over 40 girls were raped and […]
India’s lawmakers never fail to establish an intrinsic relationship between women’s safety and their attire. In an effort to keep female students “safe”, the Andhra Pradesh government has decided to replace the blue skirt-white shirt combination with the more Indian salwar kameez.
In an internal newsletter last year, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) wrote that the World Health Organisation uses “arbitrary conversion factors to measure the prevalence of different pollutants”. According to the CPCB, the international practices that measure the air quality in India and is linked to the diseases and death in the nation are not compatible with the ethology, personnel […]
Virali Modi has written an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu, describing the problems people like her with physical disabilities go through on a daily basis. She highlights the issues when it comes to accessing public transport and urges them to look for ways to make the Indian Railways […]
An app is making life a lot easier for disabled women in Gujarat, Karnataka, Odisha and Telengana. Called ‘Azaadi ki Udaan’, the app was the joint collaboration of Shanta Memorial Rehabilitation Centre (SMRC), a Bhubaneswar-based NGO, and Inflexi Technology. The idea took birth when SMRC realised the kind of discrimination and marginalisation disabled women go through in society. […]
There was some serious noise in the feminist world in 2015 – movements went beyond ideas and took a journey of their own. From menstruation taking centrestage on social media to films getting gender sensitive with bold scripts about how India treats its women. Sakshi Sirari brings you the headlines that promise to change things […]
