AFP/GETTY IMAGES Betwa Sharma– Strange Innt? If this were a plot in a P.G. Wodehouse story then one of his eccentric characters would have summed up the situation between the two Magsaysay Award winners from India and its silent Prime… Continue Reading →
BY MANASH ‘FIRAQ’ BHATTACHARJEE Irom Sharmila licks honey from her hand to break her fast during a press conference in Imphal on Tuesday. Sharmila ended her fast after nearly 16 years demanding repeal of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act…. Continue Reading →
RAJKUMAR SONI The human rights activist and AAP leader Soni Sori was “intimidated” by unidentified men in Jagdalpur on Thursday. Sori, who is leading a ‘Tiranga Yatra’ through the Maoist hotbed of Bastar, was on her way to appear in… Continue Reading →
Vandana Shiva Chemical corporations are trying to impose patents on all living organisms… They are trying to destroy our local food systems and replace them with industrial junk food by changing food and health safety as well as bio-safety, through… Continue Reading →
With Aadhaar being widely used by various agencies for different purposes, here’s a look at how private players too are acting as a crucial link in the data authentication process. Akshatha M, 29 Jul 2016 , Citizen Matters Pic: Wikimedia… Continue Reading →
Alex Emmons . ON THE 21ST FLOOR of a high-rise hotel in Cleveland, in a room full of political operatives, Microsoft’s Research Division was advertising a technology that could read each facial expression in a massive crowd, analyze the emotions,… Continue Reading →
SHAILENDRA TIWARI While the BJP regime in Madhya Pradesh struggles to extricate itself from the Vyapam scam, another “scam” has landed at its door. The Congress has claimed that the Simhasth Kumbh Mela, which was held in Ujjain last May,… Continue Reading →
NATASHA SINGH NEW DELHI: India in the 1960’s and into the 1970’s was depicted by the foreign media with what were popularly referred to as ‘begging bowl’ images with stories of poverty dominating. It took an aggressive foreign policy,… Continue Reading →
By SURABHI VAYA | SAM PANTHAKY/AFP/GETTY IMAGES In mid July 2016, a video surfaced of an incident in Una town in Gujarat where a mob beat up four Dalit youths for picking up a cow carcass, and then paraded the young… Continue Reading →
The amendment in Maternity Benefits Act aims to raise maternity leave for women from 12 weeks to 26 weeks Prashant K. Nanda The cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, also approved 12 weeks’ maternity benefits to a ‘commissioning mother’… Continue Reading →
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