Focus: Since Last Six Months She Published 'Charlie Hebdo' Cover, The Urdu Editor Struggles For Livelihood!

By Aarefa Johari in Mumbai

THE BIG TOP STORY: An unfortunate Urdu editor is struggling for livelihood since January, Shirin Dalvi has been boycotted by most of the Urdu media. She has now appealed for help to educate her children.

In the past six years, journalist Shirin Dalvi rose from the position of a features editor at one Urdu newspaper to the editor-in-chief of another. In Mumbai’s Urdu circles, she was the first woman ever to head a news publication. And at Awadhnama, the paper she edited, she was literally the only woman in an office full of men.

This fact, says Dalvi, is what worked against her when all hell broke loose at Awadhnama six months ago.

Satire: Srinivasan Donates CSK Stakes To AAP, Kejriwal Plans To Raise Money Through IPL Matches!

TAKE IT EASY: Ex-IPL Chief N Srinivasan has decided to donate stakes of his IPL team 'Chennai Super Kings' to the 'Aam Aadmi Party' in a desperate bid to mitigate the setback it received after Justice Lodha committee’s verdict on IPL betting was out.

Sources close to N Srinivasan said that the ICC Chairman was looking for a buyer after restrictions were imposed on his IPL team. “There couldn’t have been a better association of two beleaguered entities,” said an official related to the deal.

AAP, which is out of funds after spending 500 Cr on making TV commercial, seeks to earn revenue through IPL matches. The party plans to  rename the team as ‘Delhi Freeloaders’.

Special Report: India’s Socio-Economic Census Threatens To Exclude Crores Of Poor From Social Schemes!

The census says 9 out of 17 crore rural households face no 'deprivation' despite living in extreme poverty. If the government follows this definition, all these people will be left out of country’s social safety net.

The findings of the Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011 have been long awaited by academics and politicians alike. Now that they are out, there is a fear that they could end up being used to exclude crores of people from the country’s social safety net.

Spotlight: Will India Support A 'Small Firm's Bid' To Make 'Cheap Diabetes Drug' Or Cave In To 'Big Pharma'?

By Dr.Muneeb Faraaz

If the government grants Hyderabad's Lee Pharma a licence overriding AstraZeneca's patent, more than 60 million diabetes patients will benefit.

A little known pharmaceutical company of Hyderabad has again lit the fuse to the volatile issue of access to medicines and patent rights in India. Lee Pharma has applied for a compulsory licence to produce a cheaper version of a patented medicine to treat diabetes, a move that is likely to set off a furious global debate on the contested aspects of India’s patent law.

Reality Check: Vegans, There’s More Animal Blood On Food

By Oliver Sebastian in Sydney

HEALTH ALERT: We should choose the way that causes the least unnecessary harm to animals. Most animal rights advocates say this means we should eat plants rather than animals.

The ethics of eating red meat have been grilled recently by critics who question its consequences for environmental health and animal welfare. But if you want to minimise animal suffering and promote more sustainable agriculture, adopting a vegetarian diet might be the worst possible thing you could do.

Why Telangana 'Govt Employees' Are On 'Strike' Spree?

By Swati Sharma in Hyderabad

The strike by municipal civic staff employees of Telangana government has paralysed sanitation in the entire state. The streets and public places are stinking. Many people have already started complaining about health issues like diarrhea and viral fever.  

Swachch Hyderabad has become "durgandh" Hyderabad. Government has turned deaf ears on the demands of civic staff pay hike. The  government should have initiated steps to call the union leaders and municipal bodies and given a settlement immediately as the state is calling tourists also for Pushkarams.

Armed With The 'Qura'an' And The 'Constitution', These Strong Women Are Fighting 'Fundamentalism' In Life!

SUCCESS STORY: India's Muslim women, often called a minority within a minority for their double handicap of gender and faith, are challenging medieval religious laws that have oppressed them for centuries. 

In 2007, two women co-founded the Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA), a group that is leading this fight. When Noorjehan Safia Niaz (43) and Zakia Soman (50) came together to empower Muslim women, they did not imagine the response they would get.

Coal-Based Power Plants: What Exactly Govt Is Missing?

By Likha Veer - Group Executive Editor

The draft notification specifying emission standards for coal-based thermal power plants is a welcome first step towards regulation, but needs much greater attention to detail and further calibration.

On 15 May 2015, the Government of India came out with a draft notification on emission standards for coal based thermal power plants, opening it up for public comments. Till the time, there had been no specific emission standards for thermal power plants, except in respect of Particulate Matters which was also very high when compared to global standards.