Junputh
In this form, this Bill should be referred to a Standing or a Select Committee for wider deliberations, as the Bill, which has much import for the people of Uttarakhand and also for the rest of India as a precedent setter, needs to be discussed and people’s, including diverse women’s, queer and trans communities’ responses from Uttarakhand need to be taken into account.
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As I return the Magsaysay award I also feel that I should relieve myself of the degrees I have obtained in US. Hence, I am also taking a decision to return my Dual M.S. degrees in Manufacturing and Computer Engineerings to Syracuse Univeristy in upstate New York and my Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering degree to the University of California at Berkeley.
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We are celebrating ten years of the implementation of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013, popularly known as the POSH law, currently. While celebrations are underway all over the country, our champions who brought laurels for the country like Sakshi, Vinesh, Sangeeta and other women wrestlers, have not been assured of this minimum protection, at their ‘workplace’.
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Ms. Nagvanshi emphasized that the journey has not been easy, with NHRC issuing reminders and notices to the Ministry of Health and FSSAI that received no responses. The notice issued now will be hard to ignore as it marks a crucial step.
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In the early morning on Day 3 i.e. August 20, 2023 Delhi Police came marching with a written order which forced the closing down of the program. The event, held at Surjeet Bhawan faced hurdles on Day 2 with the Delhi police trying to interrupt the peaceful proceedings, but with peoples’ resistance and remarkable show of spirit, they backed out, and the program continued as scheduled. Under duress the Summit had to be curtailed.
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We20: A Peoples’ Summit on G20 is being held in the run-up to the 18th G20 Leaders’ Summit to be held in New Delhi early September. It is an effort to bring people’s voices to the forefront and raise their issues and concerns for a more democratic, just and inclusive financial system and political order.
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In a unanimous and resolute stand, all participants and discussants called on the government to urgently constitute a commission of inquiry headed by a retired Supreme Court judge.
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The study has found that people who were in their mother’s wombs during the Bhopal disaster were likely to have 8 times higher rates of cancer, higher rates of disability precluding employment, and lower levels of education.
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The statement demands an immediate halt to this ongoing violence and highlights the need for independent, non-partisan civil society members to visit the survivors and the bereaved; make attempts to verify reports of killings and rapes.
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We are appalled by the decision of the NCERT to remove chapters and statements from the history textbooks, and demand that the deletions from the textbooks should be immediately withdrawn. The decision of the NCERT is guided by divisive motives.
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