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"Out of school children comprise the workers and non workers. In our view they together signify a measure of deprivation among children and can be considered as a potential labour pool always being at the risk of entering the labour force" - NCEUS, 2007 10-Year-Old 'Slave' Rescued From Home Of Hyderabad Techies(13/9/17) Hyderabad: A 10-year-old child has been rescued from the home of a techie couple in Hyderabad today. She had allegedly been bought for Rs 10,000 from Maharashtra to care for their two young children. A video shot by an activist shows the child in the balcony answering questions in Hindi. She says she was brought in to work, is beaten and not given food on time. Later the child was reported to have been kept tied inside allegedly as punishment after she was caught talking from the balcony of the apartment to a passer-by. The couple Raghuram and Sangeetha claimed they had brought her to Hyderabad for treatment and not for domestic work. ...

NEW DELHI: In India, many consider them "monsters." Madhumita Pandey was only 22 when she first went to Tihar Jail in New Delhi to meet and interview convicted rapists in India. Over the past three years, she has interviewed 100 of them for her doctoral thesis at the criminology department of Anglia Ruskin University in the United Kingdom. It all started in 2013, first as a pilot project, months after the highly publicized gang rape and murder of a woman now known as "Nirbhaya" meaning "Fearless One." The details of the case - a young, aspirational medical student who was attacked on the way home with a friend after watching the movie "Life of Pi" - struck a chord in India, where according to the National Crime Records Bureau, 34,651 women reported being raped in 2015, the most recent year on record. Nirbhaya brought thousands of Indians to the streets to protest the widespread culture of rape and violence against women in 2012. That year, gend...

                                                                     Fake swamis and swaminis of India                          Recently Akila Bharatiya Akshara Parishad, an apex body of hindu sadhus, under which has 13 aksharas has released a list of 14 swamis identified as fake on Sunday and tagged them as "Rootless cult leaders" demanding appropriate laws to turn down them just after the revolutionary arrests of Gurmeet Ram Rahim with charges of rape cases . Its a pleasant news as the number of fake swamis are increasing day by day now that the list gives an awareness to the people. The list includes::: 1. Asaram Bapu (Asumal Sirumalani)     2. Radhe Maa (Sukhwinder Kaur)     3. Sachchidanand Giri (Sachi...

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ On the go... The Blue Whale Game  also "Blue Whale Challenge", is an Internet "game" that is claimed to exist in several countries. The game allegedly consists of a series of tasks assigned to players by administrators during a 50-day period, with the final challenge requiring the player to commit suicide.The term "Blue Whale" comes from the phenomenon of beached whales, which is linked to suicide. Blue Whale began in Russia in 2013 with "F57", one of the names of the so-called "death group" of the VKontakte social network, and allegedly caused its first suicide in 2015 (Cetacean stranding, commonly known as beaching, is a phenomenon in which cetaceans strand themselves on land, usually on a beach. Beached whales often die due to dehydration, collapsing under their own weight, or drowning when high tide covers the blowhole. Several explana...

नई दिल्ली: सर्वोच्च न्यायालय ने सर्वसम्मति से घोषित किया कि सभी भारतीयों के जीवन पर असर डालने वाले एक महत्वपूर्ण निर्णय में संविधान के तहत गोपनीयता का अधिकार मौलिक अधिकार है। मुख्य न्यायाधीश जे एस खेहार की अध्यक्षता वाली नौ न्यायाधीश की संविधान पीठ ने फैसला सुनाया कि "गोपनीयता का अधिकार अनुच्छेद 21 और संविधान के पूरे भाग III के तहत जीवन के अधिकार और व्यक्तिगत स्वतंत्रता का एक आंतरिक हिस्सा है"। अत्यधिक विवादास्पद मुद्दे पर फैसला, विभिन्न सामाजिक कल्याण योजनाओं के लाभों का लाभ उठाने के लिए आधार अनिवार्य बनाने के लिए केंद्र की चाल को चुनौती देने वाली याचिकाओं के एक बैच से निपटना था। न्यायमूर्ति जे। चेल्म्सवार, एस ए बॉब, आर के अग्रवाल, आर एफ नरीमन, ए एम सप्रे, डी वाई चंद्रचुद, एस के कौल और एस अब्दुल नज़ीर की पीठ के अन्य सदस्यों ने भी इसी विचार को साझा किया। नौ न्यायाधीशों ने सर्वसम्मति से सर्वोच्च न्यायालय के दो पहले के फैसले को खारिज कर दिया कि संविधान के तहत गोपनीयता के अधिकार सुरक्षित नहीं हैं। बेंच ने 1 9 50 के एम पी शर्मा के फैसले को रद्द कर दिया था और 1 9 60 के खारक सिं...

Gorakhpur Tragedy: Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath removes additional chief secretary Days after more than 60 children died due to alleged shortage of liquid oxygen supply at BRD Medical College and Hospital in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday removed additional chief secretary (Medical Education) Anita Bhatnagar Jain. He also ordered FIR to be lodged against about half a dozen persons, including former hospital principal Rajeev Mishra, who has been suspended, Indian Express report said. As per the report, the decision came soon after state Chief Secretary Rajiv Kumar submitted an investigation report into the incident. State Cabinet Minister Shrikant Sharma confirmed that the probe report has been submitted to the chief minister and findings would be communicated to the media later. Following the death of more than 60 children within five days at the hospital, the state government had set up a four-member panel under the chief secretary to probe the...

‘Creamy layer’ income cap for OBCs raised to Rs 8L, panel to take call on sub-categories The government on Wednesday raised the creamy layer ceiling by Rs 2 lakh as it announced the setting up of a commission to work out sub-categorisation within Other Backward Classes (OBCs) for a “more equitable distribution of reservation benefits”. At the same time, the government emphasised that there will be no review of reservation. Union finance minister Arun Jaitley announced that OBC families earning up to Rs 8 lakh per annum will not be considered in the creamy layer. Earlier, this ceiling was Rs 6 lakh per annum. “The proposal is that there will be sub-categorisation within the OBC list for the purposes of central government employment. In this connection, the National Commission for Backward Classes had given its recommendation in 2011,” Jaitley said while briefing the media after a cabinet meeting. He said the Parliamentary Standing Committee gave the same recommendation in in 20...