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‘Workplace violence’ against doctors -- by patients’ relatives, local goons and even the police -- which peaked during the pandemic in India, has now reached alarming proportions. A study by the Indian Medical Association (IMA) reveals that 75 per cent of doctors in India have faced violence in some form. Mojo Story reports on this dangerous trend of intimidation of doctors who are at the frontline of India’s healthcare system.
There is a new battle in Kashmir that threatens to further widen the cultural cleavages between Muslims and Hindus in the Valley, over which script Kashmiri should be written in -- the Perso-Arabic ‘Nastaliq’ or the Devanagari? While the Kashmiri Hindu groups argue that the Devanagari script democratises the Kashmiri language, the Muslim groups contend that it is “another assault” on their identity. ThePrint investigates the controversy.
In a first of its kind order, the Delhi High Court, on May 11, directed the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) which sought to block a satire website to share its Order with its founder. MediaNama says that this direction by the Court asking the Ministry to furnish its order is “unprecedented”, as up until now MeitY’s takedown orders under Section 69A of the IT Act, 2000, have been shrouded in secrecy.
And, to mark the International Biodiversity Day last week, Down To Earth looks at the choice between the ‘fortress’ and the ‘community-based’ conservation models. It argues that while the first excludes and alienates local people from the effort, the latter integrates human development and biodiversity conservation, where the local communities are made part of the solution.
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Warmly,
Sunil Rajshekhar
IPSMF
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