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Indian Army personnel perform yoga to mark the 5th International Day of Yoga, in the icy ranges of the Himalayas.
Indian Army personnel perform yoga to mark the 5th International Day of Yoga, in the icy ranges of the Himalayas.
A dog sleeps as exile Tibetan students of the Tibetan Children's Village School participate in a yoga session to commemorate the International Yoga Day in Dharmsala.
People gather around the ill-fated HRTC passenger bus which overturned near Tarokra Mata temple at Kotli, in Mandi district.
Fresh snow is seen on the Dhauladhar range of the Himalaya after rain and hail lashed the lower reaches in Dharmsala.
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur is offered sweets by BJP workers after JP Nadda was appointed as the working President of the Bhartiya Janta Party, at the state offi...
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Newly-elected BJP MP from Mandi Ramswaroop along with Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur greets the public during a thanksgiving rally in Mandi.
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama prays during his religious talk to Tibetan students at the Tsuglakhang temple in Dharmsala.
Anganwadi workers perform Naati dance during a rally to create awareness on saving 'girl child' on the first day of the Shimla Summer Festival 2019 at Ridge in Shimla.
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Smoke rises from a pine forest on the foothils of the Himalaya near Palampur, about 48 kilometers (30 miles) south of Dharmsala.
EVM machines being airlifted by Indian Air Force helicopters from a helipad at Stingri, in Lahaul district.
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Voters display their inked fingers after casting their votes during the seventh and last phase of Lok Sabha elections, at Theon village near Shimla.
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur with family members show their inked fingers during the seventh and last phase of Lok Sabha elections, at Thunag Teshsil in Mandi.
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One more medical student, 19-year-old Aman Kachroo, has been brutally killed in the name of "ragging". Who is to blame? What can be done? Shivam Vij cuts to the chase in kafila.org:
This was in an interim order of the [Supreme] Court in May 2007, nearly 2 years ago. That has not been able to prevent Kachroo’s murder. I have no doubt that more ragging deaths will take place. You can read here a critique of the interim order by me.
If only Aman Kachroo had been able to call a helpline number or email somebody, anonymously, and write that this kind of ragging was going on, and a fact-finding team had immediately visited his college, not only could the death have been prevented but also possibly Kachroo could have enjoyed his college life without even the mandatory ostracisation that freshers who speak up against ragging have to face in their college and hostel. The setting up of such a helpine on the model of Childline was one of the recommendations of the Raghavan committee. But can the Supreme Court set up something like that? Surely, that is the domain of the executive and not the judiciary. An HRD Joint Secretary is Member Secretary of the Raghavan Committee, but the HRD won’t do anything because, well, the SC is looking into it.
To model the helpline around Childline was suggested by HRD Joint Secretary Sunil Kumar himself, but that would need identifying and funding NGO’s to do that. The Coalition to Uproot Ragging from Education is ready, but the HRD forgot about this and the SC had no comment.So two things needed to prevent ragging: a law and a helpline. Simple.
Read the full article here: Why Aman Kachroo’s Won’t Be The Last Ragging Death And What His Parents Should Do
