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An edit page column in the Mumbai-based daily Urdu Times highlights a new research conducted by Led By Foundation that has found huge discrimination against Muslim women in recruitment at entry-level roles across industries in India, even when they are equally qualified for the jobs
Over the past week the country’s leading Urdu dailies turned their gaze on some monumental international developments, ranging from Britain’s scandal-plagued Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s resignation, which came less than three years after he led the Conservatives to their biggest victory since 1987, to Japan’s former and longest-serving PM Shinzo Abe’s assassination by a disaffected ex-navy soldier, to the upheaval in Sri Lanka that saw the toppling of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa amid dramatic visuals of the storming of his palace and the torching of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s house by anti-government protesters. The dailies carried multiple reports and opinion pieces on these global events, among other stories, to cover and decode them and, by extension, make sense of the increasingly fraught, complex world we live in.
Siasat
In its second leader on July 10, headlined “Sri Lanka ka bohraan (Lanka’s crisis)”, the Hyderabad-based daily Siasat writes that the turmoil roiling the neighbouring country has peaked with the people convulsed by an unprecedented economic crisis. It notes that the island nation has been pushed to the brink in the face of acute shortages of fuel, food and other essential commodities while the power supply has been disrupted. Reeling under the staggering crisis, people have again hit the streets in protest. Earlier too, the daily notes, the Lankan people have held large-scale street protests for months. “But the way the multitude of protesters descended on the Colombo streets on July 9 ignoring curfew should be an eye-opener for power-drunk rulers who turn a blind eye to the woes of the people,” it states, adding that on seeing public anger exploding on the streets President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, once considered to be the “last word” in Lanka’s affairs, fled from his palace overrun by the protesters. His brother Mahinda Rajapaksa had already been ousted as the Prime Minister two months ago amid such protests.
The edit points out that the current PM, Ranil Wickremesinghe, whose house in an affluent Colombo neighbourhood was set ablaze by demonstrators, has also agreed to resign to make way for an all-party government. Referring to Rajapaksa brothers, it says: “The Sri Lanka people who elected them are now bent on toppling them, which proves that popular anger has an upper hand over any power. This should be a lesson for rulers who remain intoxicated by power and keep riding roughshod over public concerns and expectations.”
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