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In emotional posts shared amid the election announcement, these women described relentless, targeted campaigns that intensified after they raised issues like women's safety, police excesses, Dalit rights, and government accountability.
In her posts, Nath stated that her security has been downgraded and drew a comparison with the recent assassination attempt on National Conference president and former Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah.
Taking on the court's observation that such pleas portray women as "inferior," the MP countered that menstruation is not a disease or weakness, but a natural biological process.
Economic ruins fueling social insecurity.
Monalisa, dressed in a red attire with sindoor, reiterated that the wedding was conducted entirely according to Hindu rituals and the Love Jihad claims are completely baseless.
The positions in the commission have been completely vacant since March 2023.
Dalit, tribal and Muslim women remain among the most underrepresented voices in India’s democratic system, confronting overlapping barriers of gender discrimination, caste hierarchy and religious marginalisation.
Bombay High Court has ruled that a child's caste identity must reflect their lived social reality, not just lineage. The bench held that administrative records exist to reflect reality, not to fossilize a false identity.
Recent incidents from a folk singer's mockery of Golma Devi at Nainath Mela to BJP MLA Bahadur Singh Koli's sexist comparison of BJP budgets as "birth of a son" and Congress budgets as "birth of a daughter" in the Assembly, highlight persistent patriarchal bias and insult to daughters in public discourse.
Kanchan Bai, a Dalit Anganwadi worker sacrificed her life to save 20 children. When a swarm of bees attacked, she covered the kids with a tarpaulin and stood as a human shield.
Survivor playing with her puppy, Birju
Despite being a key statutory institution mandated to provide immediate institutional support, including grievance redressal, counselling, crisis intervention, and coordination with authorities, the DCW has reportedly remained physically inaccessible and operationally defunct for a prolonged period. (File Image)
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