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THIRUVANTHAPURAM: The release of the Hema Committee report on the problems plaguing the Malayalam film industry has exposed its ugly underbelly. It is a gory tale of sexual exploitation, illegal bans, discrimination, drug and alcohol abuse , wage disparity and in many cases inhuman working conditions.

The 77th anniversary of India’s Independence was marked by women taking to the streets, protesting sexual violence and reclaiming the night.

At a time when Budget 2024-25 is aiming at creating about 3 crore formal jobs, the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) for the first quarter of the current financial year shows a decline in the employment in urban India. Women workforce suffered even more than their male counterpart in all age group.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi holding back execution of his much-vaunted lateral entry scheme has certainly not come as a surprise. After Lok Sabha electoral reverses, Modi had come to realise that it would not be possible to implement the scheme in the changed political situation, though on August 17 his government inserted an ad in the newspapers of opening for lateral entry. An insight into the development revealed that it was purely a trick to test the public mood and response of the corporate and big commercial houses.

KOLKATA: For unlisted BSNL, the beleaguered PSU under the administrative control of DoT, the only silver lining is that sections of users in towns and mid-size cities are porting to it from other telecom service providers under TRAI’s Mobile Number Portability (MNP) scheme as its 4G facility project gets launched piecemeal.

United States Vice President Kamala Harris gave her okay to be the Democratic presidential candidate after praising herself, her mother and briefly her Jamaican father, too, though her husband Douglas Emhoff got the first mention with President Joe Biden a close second. If elected, Kamala Harris will shatter former President Donald Trump’s dream of a second coming to the White House.

The eleventh Independence Day Red Fort address of Prime Minister Narendra Modi was his longest so far and it was the most disappointing by his own standards.

The central BJP leadership’s operation to topple Hemant Soren Government in Jharkhand through Champai Soren, has backfired. The plan was to unseat Hemant Soren government in by forcing a split. Home Minister Amit Shah for long has been focusing on Jharkhand, had spent a huge resources and at one stage had come closer to achieve his mission, but for High Court intervention he could not accomplish.

“Kolkata rape-murder” versus the "Badlapur monstrosity". The BJP is targeting West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for the horrendous rape-cum-murder of a trainee doctor in a hospital and the Congress is out to settle scores for the INDI-Alliance after the sexual assault on a pair of schoolgirls aged 3 and 4! Congress MLA Vijay Wadettiwar, who is Leader of Opposition in the Maharashtra Assembly, went after Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis even as a Congress team arrived in Badlapur to put the BJP on the mat.

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has made critical observations about the status of human rights in India in its country audit prepared after 28 years. The comments are critical about most of the areas of operations of the government where rights of the people are involved.