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The All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) welcomes the judgment of three judges of the Supreme Court in the case of X v. The Principal Secretary, Health and Family Welfare Department, Govt. of NCT of Delhi in which the Supreme Court held that unmarried women have the right to access safe and legal abortions between twenty and twenty-four weeks of pregnancy, if they face a change in their material circumstances, similar to married women. The Delhi High Court, which first heard the petition, had held that Section 3(2)(b) of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 ("MTP Act") and Rule 38 of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Rules, 2003 ("MTP Rules") was inapplicable to the case because the pregnant woman was unmarried and her pregnancy arose out of a consensual relationship.

The latest public statements coming out of Moscow are very worrying and must be forthrightly condemned. Putin is talking of a referendum in the Russian held parts of Donetsk and Luhansk, on whether the populace in their majority want to be a part of Russia. The voting is likely to be held between September 23 to 27. The reason behind this shift in strategy is that, given the strong and unexpected resistance of the Ukrainian people, Putin is no longer confident that he can swallow the whole of Ukraine.

Kranthi Nanduri, Assistant Professor, Jindal School of Banking and Finance, presented her research on the "Patterns of Accumulation and Differentiation in the Non-Agrarian Informal Sector in India" during the fifth session of the FAS Young Scholars’ Online Seminar Series 2022-23.

The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India has strongly condemned the action of Chhattisgarh government to refuse permission to a Padayatra organized by Communist Party of India under the leadership of our national executive member Manish Kunjam.

Part of Rocking our Priors Podcasts by Alice Evans - Episode with Dr. Anukriti, a researcher at the World Bank on How women perpetuate patriarchy . . .