Last year, survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy commemorated the 37th anniversary of the incident. Thereafter, they decided to launch a campaign, “Bhopal Disaster: 37 years; 37 questions”, through this campaign, they decided to ask one question for the next 37 days.
In ICC Annual Conference on Tuesday at Birmingham, BCCI has successfully bid for the mega event “Women’s 50-over World Cup ”. India will host the Women’s 50-over World Cup in 2025 which will be after 12 years.
The country is celebrating the victory of India’s 15th President ‘Droupadi Murmu’, who is not only the India’s first youngest president- securing the office at the age of 64, but also the first person belonging to Scheduled Tribe (ST) community who is elected as the President of India. Not only this, Ms. Murmu is the second female President, after Pratibha Devi Patil, to hold the office of the President of India. BJP nominated- National Democratic Alliance’s Presidential candidate Ms. Murmu, has won the Presidential elections by polling over approx. 64 per cent of all votes which exposes the fact that around a dozen of MPs and more than 100 MLAs cross voted for her.
Behind every ancestral property now stands women with equal rights as men. It is commonly misunderstood that the property is devolved to the son(s) of the family and not the daughter(s). Hindu Undivided Family (HUF) is one such prominent practice to understand inheritance which is created by Hindu, Jains, Sikhs and Buddhists family.
Domestic violence against women is not uncommon in Indian society. It affects a large number of women, and the majority of them are so used to it that they don’t even report it. Nonetheless, many people continue to be victims of domestic abuse. Domestic violence is a strategy of instilling fear and servility in a person in a domestic setting, such as a household. The motivation for this violence can range from the need to maintain an individual’s power structure over another to the desire to instill/coerce another for self-gratification.
Supreme Court of United States on 24tth of June, 2022 decided Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (“Dobbs”) and ruled in favour of the state of Mississippi which was seeking invalidation of the 50-year-old precedent of Roe v. Wade (“Roe”), protecting the constitutional right of abortion. After a federal district court ruling granting permanent injunction against the ban on abortion in the state of Mississippi was upheld by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, SCOTUS turned the clock back on the right to abortion stating that the Constitution of United States does not confer the same.
Nothing that is ‘imposed’, survives for too long. Marriage as an institution continues to exist, around the world, because a large majority of people ‘choose’ to opt for it. But it is also true that world over, many people are now questioning the institution of marriage and opting instead to remain life-long companions without the shackles or protection of the law.
विश्व में गुजरात राज्य एक बार फिर चर्चा में बना हुआ है I हालांकि गुजरात और गुजराती हमेशा से अपने अविश्वसनीय कार्यों और महापुरुषों के व्यक्तित्व के कारण चर्चा में बना रहा है, परंतु इस बार चर्चा का कारण ‘बिंदु’ की ऐतिहासिक शादी है। 9 जून 2022 भारतीय इसिहास में अहम हो गया जब गुजरात की बिंदु नाम की लड़की ने भारत में शादी को लेकर सारी मौजूदा परम्पराओं और अवधारणाओं को तोड़ कर खुद से शादी कर ली।
The Indian sex workers case is making the top headline these days. The recent order dated 19-05-2022 given in the case of Budhadev Karmaskar v. State of West Bengal And Ors., popular as the sex workers case the Hon’ble Apex Court has categorically recognized that the basic protection of human decency and dignity under Article 21 of the Constitution of India extends to sex workers and their children, who, bearing the brunt of social stigma attached to their work, are removed to the fringes of the society, deprived of their right to live with dignity and opportunities to provide the same to their children.
भारत अपनी आजादी के 75 वर्ष पूर्ण होने पर “आजादी का अमृत महोत्सव” मना रहा है, परंतु 21वीं सदी के आजाद भारत में लड़कियां और उनके माता पिता आज भी दहेज जैसी कुप्रथा से जूझ रहे हैं।