Modi’s trump card for 2019 polls, and Nirbhaya’s continuing fight
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Modi’s trump card for 2019 polls, and Nirbhaya’s continuing fight

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint in the last 24 hours.

   
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A snapshot from 24 hours in the life of a working Indian mom. Why Indian women are choosing to stay at home | ThePrint.in

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint in the last 24 hours.

How a day looks like in the life of a working Indian mom

Explained through a video with a series of illustrations on a day in the life of a working Indian mom versus that of an Indian man, ThePrint tells you why Indian women are choosing to stay at home. Illustrations by Soham Sen and produced by Manas Gurung.

Rahul Gandhi is Narendra Modi’s biggest trump card in 2019 elections

The Congress president does not even seem to be trying to win the general elections next year and may end up propelling PM Modi, writes Shivam Vij.

Fight for justice for Nirbhaya is still not over

On a day the Supreme Court rejected the review petition against death penalty filed by the 16 December 2012 Delhi gang rape case convicts, victim Jyoti Singh’s mother Asha Singh talks to ThePrint about her trauma and why she believes the fight of the victim is the victim’s alone.

The rise of Jayant Sinha as a Hindutva proponent

As union minister Jayant Sinha’s felicitation of the six men convicted for killing in the name of cow protection in Jharkhand receives widespread condemnation, D.K. Singh writes how by doing so, the Harvard-educated, former venture capitalist minister seems to have ignored the PM’s denouncement of vigilantes.

New NGT chairman A.K. Goel denounced post-retirement appointments just two months ago

Supreme Court justice A.K. Goel, who had mentioned in a judgment that tribunals should not be ‘heaven for retired persons’, has ironically been made NGT chairman after his retirement, Ritika Jain reports.