Month September 2017
– A group of independent human rights experts today called on the Government of India to create a safer environment for independent voices, after Indian journalist and human rights defender Gauri Lankesh was killed earlier this month. “The Indian authorities should… Continue Reading →
What’s motivating them to defy a hostile climate against the stateless people. HARMEET SHAH SINGH = Why have Sikhs, of all people, crossed into Bangladesh to feed thousands of Rohingya refugees? Why reach out to Muslims, who committed the worst… Continue Reading →
Mukul Kesavan Sonali Pal Chaudhury/NurPhoto via Getty Images Protesters holding signs showing the murdered journalist Gauri Lankesh, Kolkata, India, September 7, 2017 Gauri Lankesh was the editor of a weekly tabloid published in Kannada, the main language of the southern… Continue Reading →
Ishita Bhatia| TNN | Updated: Sep 16, 2017, 06:18 IST Representative image MEERUT: A student of Class III believed to be aged no more than 11 years was hours from being wed on Friday morning in Bulandshahr when a joint effort by social activists, officials… Continue Reading →
Fears of impurity continue to steer Indians away fhttprom toilets — and towards deadly fecal germs. By Diane Coffey, Dean Spears Growth in India has always been puzzling. For the first decades of democratic India, economists lamented slow economic progress. Some… Continue Reading →
It doesn’t behove either CM or PM of Gujarat, Statement on Sardar Sarovar is full of flaws and lies: NBA challenge Badwani, Madhya Pradesh | September 15, 2017: The statement by the chief minister of Gujarat, Mr. Vijay Rupani on… Continue Reading →
Anjaya Anparthi| T Representative image NAGPUR: The BJP-ruled state government has waived off Rs 1.92 crore stamp duty that was due from Madhav Netralaya — an eye institute and research centre — planned by some prominent RSS activists, on Hingna Road. The state has imposed the… Continue Reading →
Osmania university police have registered a case based on Sharat Naliganti’s complaint. In an alarming incident, a Dalit student leader from Osmania University is allegedly facing a barrage of death threats, all because another person created a fake account in… Continue Reading →
NEW DELHI: Thousands of bank employees from all over India participated in a huge March on Parliament in Delhi on Friday. Employees travelled all the way from Assam, Jammu and Kashmir, Gujarat and other states to march for their demands… Continue Reading →
UN agencies warn conflict and climate change are undermining food security, causing chronic undernourishment and threatening to reverse years of progress The number of hungry people in the world has increased for the first time since the turn of the… Continue Reading →