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Sep 25, 2024 | 
thewire.in | Ankita Dhar Karmakar
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
behanbox.com | Christianez Ratna Kiruba |Ankita Dhar Karmakar
Trigger Warning: The report contains mentions of rape and sexual violence. Reader discretion is advised. On the morning of August 9, two days before lakhs of students were going to take the NEET PG exam for a postgraduate seat, a woman postgraduate trainee doctor was found murdered in the seminar room of the emergency medicine building of RG Kar Medical College Hospital in Kolkata. This was exactly a week before India celebrates its 77th Independence day.
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May 14, 2024 | 
behanbox.com | Ankita Dhar Karmakar
On January 22, 2024, Assam’s Department of School Education issued a deadline to government school teachers contracted under the central Samagra Shiksha (SS) programme: the teachers had eight days to decide if they wanted to remain on contract or transition to regular positions. The latter would have been a foregone option for Devajani Dutta, 42. She has been a school teacher on contract for 12 years at the Dakhin Tubuki primary school in the Kathiatoli block of Assam’s Nagaon district.
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Jan 3, 2024 | 
behanbox.com | Ankita Dhar Karmakar
Now 40% of the trainees at the Guru Premnath Akhada are women dreaming of making it to the Olympics, mostly from small-town India In the winter of 2016, Shraddha Singh, 12, was watching Dangal, the Aamir Khan film chronicling the journey of the Phogat sisters, India’s first world-class female wrestlers. When it ended, her father asked her a question that went on to shape her future: “Do you want to become a wrestler too?” Without any hesitation, Singh said yes.
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Nov 2, 2023 | 
behanbox.com | Ankita Dhar Karmakar |Abhijeet Gurjar
Between August 8 and August 19, over 20,000 ASHA workers (Accredited Social Health Activists) in Haryana had been on strike demanding higher wages, an increase in retirement age, and inclusion in the government’s healthcare cadre on a minimum wage of Rs 26,000. ASHA workers in Haryana began to be paid a fixed salary of Rs 4000 only in 2018, following a six-month long protest.
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Nov 2, 2023 | 
behanbox.com | Ankita Dhar Karmakar |Abhijeet Gurjar
The frontline health workers have called for a 24-hour strike outside district offices and homes of political leaders Update: The Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar met with the protesting ASHA workers and announced a hike of honorariums by Rs. 2100.
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Jul 23, 2023 | 
behanbox.com | Ankita Dhar Karmakar |Saleha Sapra |Anupriya Aggarwal |Sandra Alexander
New Delhi: The first time any relief material arrived in the town of Saikul in Manipur’s Kangpokpi district, one of the worst affected in the ongoing strife, the state had already seen two weeks of horrific violence. The very first gunny bags full of medicines, baby food, diapers, sanitary napkins, and clothes that arrived in Saikul had been collected and dispatched from Delhi by a collective of women from the tribal communities of the north east.
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Jun 15, 2023 | 
behanbox.com | Ankita Dhar Karmakar
In Delhi, district panels meant to address sexual harassment complaints of informal workers are not functioning as mandated by the Sexual Harassment at Workplace Act (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal or the PoSH Act). Under the act, each district should have a panel, referred to as a Local Committee, headed by a District Magistrate.
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May 17, 2023 | 
behanbox.com | Ankita Dhar Karmakar |Shubham Mudgil |Swathi Ramesh Rao |Saleha Sapra
New Delhi: Subhawati Devi was fast asleep when just past midnight, a team from the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) arrived in her locality, in the Chhuriya Mohalla of Tughlaqabad Village, near the historic Tughlaqabad Fort on April 30, 2023. The team announced that all residents must vacate their homes and belongings and relocate elsewhere. Most of the residents of the neighbourhood are migrant workers from Bihar and West Bengal working in Delhi as daily wage earners and domestic workers.
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May 7, 2023 | 
behanbox.com | Ankita Dhar Karmakar
Nearly a fortnight ago, several wrestlers started a sit-in protest in Delhi’s Jantar Mantar demanding the arrest of Wrestling Federation Chief (WFI) and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharma who has been accused of sexual harassment by seven women wrestlers, including a minor. The allegations against Brij Bhushan are not new – wrestlers Sakshi Mallik, Vinesh Phogat, and Bajrang Punia have claimed that sexual harassment has been rampant in the federation for years.
