Month April 2017
Students protesting against the fee hike, at the V-C office at Panjab University in Chandigarh on Tuesday.(Bhartesh Singh Thakur/HT) At the end of a day that saw Panjab University students hurling stones, and the police resorting to water cannons and… Continue Reading →
Gender Discrimination In Press Club Hyderabad Hyderabad: Is the Press Club of Hyderabad (PCH) meant only for men? Is the prestigious journalists’ body becoming a place for rampant gender discrimination? Are the Press Club doors closed for women members? … Continue Reading →
Amnesty International also claimed that Britain may be ‘toning down’ its criticism of countries that use the death penalty as it pursues trade deals and enters into new security arrangements Ashley Cowburn Protesters raise their fists in front of a… Continue Reading →
Aadhaar enrollment was completely outsourced to private parties with the sole aim of building the world’s largest biometric database. In a recent interview with Vir Sanghvi, Nandan Nilekani said that getting Aadhaar was not like getting AIDS. I’m not sure… Continue Reading →
Kirit S Parikh The economic consequences of banning cow slaughter can be significant. It is quite likely that over time cows may disappear from India. A look at the data from livestock census, which is carried out every five years,… Continue Reading →
Punching holes in the Aadhaar scheme, the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha today said it was based on unverified data and violated the Supreme Court order that it should not be made mandatory for schemes which are not linked to… Continue Reading →
Mumbai – We the undersigned representatives of women’s and health rights organizations strongly condemn the recommendations of Public Accounts Committee (PAC) to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly making pre-natal sex determination and tracking of pregnant women mandatory to prevent sex selection. These… Continue Reading →
By Rakesh K Singh | NEW DELHI: Tens of millions of dollars as charity flowing into the country under jealously guarded web of deception to mask real motive have triggered panic in the Intelligence Community that is monitoring vulnerabilities and threats… Continue Reading →
Nikhil Dey, Nikhil Dey The last fig leaf of ‘voluntariness’ in Aadhaar dropped when the Lok Sabha passed the Finance Bill 2017 on March 22. The Finance Bill should never have been able to change Aadhaar, but we must remember… Continue Reading →
They died following sterilisation operations in Chhattisgarh, conducted in government camps. The Sunday Express returns to fathers struggling to raise their children and families holding on to fraying memories. by Dipankar Ghose | Dipti Yadav, 26: Her husband Dhannalal with… Continue Reading →