'Students and civilians who gathered on Thursday near Ministry of Human Resources and Development (MHRD) to protest the violence in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) were lathi-charged and a dozen of them were detained from the location by police. Protesters alleged they were lathi-charged by the police near Shastri Bhawan even though they were marching peacefully from MHRD towards Rashtrapati Bhavan after students met HRD ministry officials... A female protester who was present at the demonstration alleged she was hit by a male cop.
'The students of Jawaharlal Nehru University have been agitating to get the proposed fee hike rolled back for weeks now and adding to this are the anti-CAA protests. In the midst of these, on January 5, masked men and women entered the campus, hitting students and destroying public property. This attack has led to fresh dharnas inside the university campus which have been covered by the media extensively.
'Police on Tuesday registered a case of murder, kidnap, gang rape and related charges against four persons in connection with the death of a 19-year-old Dalit girl whose body was found hanging from a tree in a village four days after she went missing on January 1. The FIR was registered under various provisions of the Indian Penal Code and Scheduled Caste & Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act following protest by hundreds of people from the Dalit community in front of Modasa Rural police station since Monday night...
'On key social indices — no poverty, zero hunger, quality education, gender equality, sustainable consumption and production — Gujarat is at the bottom of the ladder while the undivided state of Jammu and Kashmir is among the performing states. On gender equality, Jammu and Kashmir is among the top performing states — in a league of three, the other two being Himachal Pradesh and Kerala. Jammu and Kashmir outperforms the other two by a notch with a score of 53 while Himachal scored 52 and Kerala 51...'
'...Though he was the first CJI to face a sexual harassment charge, the controversy deepened when he sat on the bench hearing the case in a Saturday hearing devised by him. Justice Gogoi was absolved by a questionable due process, and then the Central government persuaded the woman not to file further internal proceedings on the promise of reinstatement for her relatives and herself. This cloud will remain on his tenure, and the court... He had his own home-grown agenda relentlessly to push the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam.
'The Citizenship (Amendment) Act dominated the 21st congress of the National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW) held at the Ravindra Manch in Jaipur on Saturday. Members, who had gathered from across the country, termed the newly amended law as “anti-women”. “Have you ever wondered how women in the country will present documentary proof of their residence when all the property is in the name of the man of the house? The actual reality of the ‘Hindu Rashtra’ is to create a savarna purush Hindu Rashtra,” an NFIW member said in her address.
'...These women are fully conscious of the imminent danger of this happening, as they hear about deaths of youth across Uttar Pradesh, in police action. Equally disturbing is news coming in from activists standing before Delhi hospitals, of youth with head injuries being stitched up secretly in ICUs. Hospital administrators colluding with police to avoid a medico-legal report. It is the constitution they have come out to defend; it is a secular battle in which people from all faiths have become equal partners.
'On the night of December 18, former cricketer and incumbent BCCI chief Sourav Ganguly posted a tweet in reference to his daughter, Sana Ganguly. “Please keep Sana out of all this issues .. this post is not true .. she is too young a girl to know about anything in politics.”... Ganguly’s tweet came as multiple users on Twitter posted a purported screenshot of Sana’s Instagram story – an excerpt on fascism from Kushwant Singh’s book ‘The End of India’. A part of the passage reads, “Every fascist regime needs communities and groups it can demonize in order to thrive.
'India has slipped four places on the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap index to 112, behind neighbours China, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh, due to rising disparity in terms of women's health and participation in the economy. Moreover, India is now ranked in the bottom-five in terms of women's health and survival and economic participation, according to an annual survey report released on Tuesday...'
'...The truth is India is no country for women. A large number of Members of Parliament (MPs) have rape cases against them. Rape is used as a brutal weapon to assert power over women.
