Neel Madhav

Aug 29, 2024 | worldcrunch.com | Stefano D'Andrea |Vipul Kumar |Neel Madhav

Luan, an Albanian man living in Italy, is struggling with a gambling addiction that drove him far from his loved ones. He tells La Stampa his story and about how he is trying to start fresh in Milan. MILAN — Until 2018, I lived in Bolzano (in Italy's far north) and was followed by social workers, because I wanted to stop wasting the money I earned as a laborer into slot machines. People would call me the “Albanian bulldozer,” because I was good at lifting weights and putting things down gently.

Aug 29, 2024 | worldcrunch.com | Vipul Kumar |Neel Madhav |Jean-Baptiste Wautier

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Jul 18, 2024 | theindiaforum.in | Kaushiki Sanyal |Neel Madhav |Srinivas Goli |Shubhra Kriti

On 8 July 2024, responding to a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) on mandatory menstrual leave for students and working women, the Supreme Court asked the Centre to frame a model policy on menstrual leave after consulting all stakeholders. It, however, expressed concern that it could have an adverse impact on women’s employability. It is noteworthy that the same PIL was not accepted by the Supreme Court in 2023 on the grounds that the matter fell within the policy domain.

Jul 15, 2024 | theindiaforum.in | Neel Madhav

In a strange and involuntary development, bridges started collapsing in Bihar immediately after the declaration of the results of the recent Lok Sabha elections. Fifteen of them collapsed in less than a month. It is quite metaphoric as it could symbolise the end of the era of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who was called the Vikas Purush ("Development Man") of Bihar because of the massive scale of construction of roads and bridges during his regime.

Apr 22, 2024 | thenewsminute.com | Neel Madhav |Parth MN |Nikita Saxena

Over 45 years ago, the Hyderabad-based Electronics Corporation of India (ECIL), a public-sector unit that reports to the Department of Atomic Energy, developed a prototype for an EVM. The Election Commission demonstrated the machine to representatives from political parties in 1980. In 1982, the Election Commission replaced paper ballots with electronic machines in 50 out of 123 booths in North Paravur — then known as Paravur — in Kerala’s Ernakulam district.