Public health specialists feel Uttar Pradesh’s Population Bill proposing a two-child norm will have a serious impact on women belonging to marginalised communities and their reproductive rights, especially in the absence of basic infrastructure facilities, gender-sensitive labour laws and access to health care services.

While highlighting the undeniable culture of political clashes in West Bengal, the NHRC’s report on the violence following the Assembly election in the State has also raised questions on the Commission’s own neutrality.

TWO days after the Uttar Pradesh government unveiled its population policy on July 11, C.T. Ravi, Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) and ...

As the Union government goes ahead with its delimitation exercise in Jammu and Kashmir, there is a near consensus among the people that it may be aimed at isolating and disempowering Muslims and depriving them of their political voice.

The Modi government’s move to privatise a public sector general insurance company, threatens to undo years of progress that nationalisation initiated 50 years ago.

Interview with Venki Ramakrishnan, structural biologist and a winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Interview with Akhilesh Yadav, Samajwadi Party president, in the early stages of the campaign for the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly election.

The propaganda by Hindutva groups that Muslims will outnumber Hindus is just another attempt at polarisation with an eye on the elections. Facts show that the Muslim population growth rate in the country has been declining.

The proposed two-child norm in Uttar Pradesh goes against the grain of the National Population Policy. But the agenda seems to be about targeting a community, especially before elections.

With the A.K. Rajan Committee constituted to study the impact of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test on socially backward students submitting its report, the onus is now on the State government to get exemption for Tamil Nadu from the pre-medical entrance examination.

By implementing the two-child norm strictly and seeking to regulate beef consumption through a new Bill, the BJP government in Assam entrenches itself in the Sangh Parivar’s anti-minority ideology.

Case Study 1: Women breadwinnersBefore COVID-19, Sudevi used to supplement her husband’s income with home-based jobs in Ahmedabad. Now, as with many ...

Whether it is the “freedom of navigation” missions alongside the Chinese coastline or military exercises such as Tradewinds and African Lion, the U.S. force projection far from its own coastline is now a given fact.

The last batch of the U.S. troops makes a quick exit from the Bagram base near Kabul much ahead of the September 11 deadline, marking the end of a 20-year occupation amid the advance of the Taliban across the country.

The protests in Cuba were triggered by the economic downturn and facilitated to a great extent by the United States government and the influential anti-Cuba lobby in Florida.

Non-compliance with labour laws by employers and the absence of any rigorous monitoring mechanism leave the migrant workers in Surat’s power looms vulnerable to exploitation and without any cushion to fall back on in times of emergencies such as the pandemic still raging.

In recent years, there seems to be a pattern of elections being preceded by terror attacks, providing a perfect pretext to the government to go on an overdrive of ultranationalism.

Justice Arun Mishra’s fulsome praise of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a public function does not augur well for the independence of the judiciary.

The uniform civil code seems to be back in the country’s political discourse as elections approach in Uttar Pradesh and as always the issue serves as a polarising weapon at the hands of the Hindu right wing.

The recent as well as past attacks on history textbooks, with those engaged in distorting Indian history seeking to use textbooks to push their political agenda of creating a Hindu nation, is a curious inversion of reality.

Interview with Dr T.V. Sekher, Professor, International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai.

Loss of livelihood and the lack of social protection and adequate relief responses have devastated millions of working poor. The state must now look beyond providing them short-term relief and help them survive the long-term economic shock of the current crisis and safeguard them against future emergencies.

The sudden lockdown announced in March 2020 exposed how precarious the lives of millions of migrant workers across India are and made it clear that they have remained invisible in the policy discourse. The Central government’s response to the crisis of reconceptualising its PMGKY scheme and relying on existing social welfare schemes does not address the challenges of the affected population.