News18 Daybreak | Jharkhand Hunger Deaths, Muzaffarpur Shelter Home Rape Survivors and Other Stories You May Have Missed

Ravidas’s post mortem could not be conducted by government officials owing to his funeral rites being performed before informing the authorities, the cause was narrowed down to “illness.” However, his family and neighbours say he succumbed to hunger. Now the residents in the Tarabagan area of the state fear that they may be next. This is our latest in the series on Jharkhand's starvation deaths.

At least thirty rape survivors of a government-sponsored children’s home in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur are suffering from severe trauma and have also tried to commit self-harm and suicide.

Whether it is the ruthless hacking of a daily wage migrant labourer or the butchering of a meat seller on suspicion of selling cow meat, Rajasthan has been slowly treading on the path to being the ‘hate crime capital of India’.