THURSDAY, 10 SEPTEMBER 2026
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Schools must monitor workers employed in their premises

Thousands of protestors on Tuesday reportedly blocked railway tracks at Badlapur station in Thane district and stormed a local school building after the alleged sexual assault of two four-year-old girls by a sweeper in the washroom. It is learned that the cleaner who was contracted through a third-party company was arrested. This sexual abuse of two KG kids within the school premises comes against the backdrop of the nationwide stir over the rape and murder of a young doctor at a hospital in Kolkata. It seems that right from little girls to women no one is safe in the country from these predators. It may be recalled that some years back a school girl was raped within the school premises at Sada in Vasco. The sexual offender was never apprehended. Schools could be engaging labourers to carry out works like masonry, carpentry, painting, gardening, cleaning etc. within the school premises. Most of these labourers could have ulterior motives of sexually assaulting school children.  The labourers should be under scanner at all times while they are within the school premises in order to prevent any untoward incident.



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What about the plight of Hindus in India?

VINAY DWIVEDI, Benaulim
Published Aug 20, 2024, 10:24 PM IST
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There is a lot of hype being created by the Indian government and on social media about the plight of Hindus in Bangladesh. Narendra Modi himself has raised the matter twice with his Bangladeshi counterpart, Amit Shah ratchets it up by dog whistling that the percentage of Hindu population there has been reduced to 9% today from 27% during partition. Shah brought up the bogey of forced conversions to justify his imaginary numbers and reap electoral dividends here.  First…

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