Years ago, there was a girl who yearned to step onto the paddy field in her tribal hamlet and play cricket with boys in the neighbourhood till dusk at Choyimoola in this district. The conservative outlook of the community members, the constant chiding by her mother and the reminders of her gender did not dampen … Read more
Farm workers arrive to prepare the field for pokkali farming at Kadamakudy near Kochi. The field used for shrimp farming switches to pokkali farming just ahead of the monsoon. | Photo Credit: THULASI KAKKAT The move to extend the time period for fish and shrimp farming up to April 30, under the guise of climate … Read more
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters take out a rally campaigning for the upcoming Tripura elections, in Agartala. | Photo Credit: ANI The BJP on Sunday nominated its women’s wing leader Papia Datta against Congress heavyweight Sudip Roy Barman for the prestigious 6-Agartala constituency in the upcoming Assembly polls in Tripura. With this, the party has … Read more
A day after Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar held a press conference to announce the NDA alliance’s seat-sharing formula, the Janata Dal-United on Wednesday released its list of 115 candidates for the 2020 Bihar Assembly elections. Ending days of intense speculation, the NDA on Tuesday announced its seat-sharing formula for Bihar assembly polls under which … Read more
Even as the nation demands an end to violence against women in light of the Hathras alleged gangrape and murder case, politicians continue to prove why gender sensitisation is a distant dream. A BJP leader from Uttar Pradesh’s Barabanki claimed that the four upper-caste men accused of brutally gangraping and killing a 19-year-old Dalit woman … Read more