Month May 2017
The number of employment opportunities generated under the Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP) fell over 9.5% year-on-year to 3.2 lakh in FY 16 from over 3.5 lakh in FY15, according to industry body ASSOCHAM analysis. “Besides, the number of… Continue Reading →
Varsha Dongre, who deleted her post later, called for introspection. 02/05/2017 3: Shams Ur Rehman Alavi AFP/GETTY IMAGES A woman official of the government of Chhattisgarh has irked the authorities with a Facebook post raising questions about a model of… Continue Reading →
TAPAN BOSE| (Mohammad Abu Bakar/Pacific Press/LightRocket/Getty Images) The Supreme Court reportedly told the Jammu and Kashmir Bar Association that it could tell the Centre to stop using pellet guns in the state only if the association could persuade the youth… Continue Reading →
‘He Just Had A Leg Ache…’ Father Wept As He Carried 15-Year-Old Son’s Body by Alok Pandey | After being denied by the hospital, the weeping father carried his son’s body on his shoulders ETAWAH: HIGHLIGHTS 45-year-old labourer carried… Continue Reading →
Follow India Sad that Sadhvi Kamal of Rajasthan thinks the atheist revolutionary was a communal vigilante. The lynching to death of the 55-year-old dairy farmer Pehlu Khan in Rajasthan’s Alwar by a bunch of gau rakshaks has become the… Continue Reading →
Student’s suicide: 2 Khalsa College teachers booked for ‘thrashing’ protesting student The action comes since the principal, Mehal Singh, registrar Devender Singh and agriculture HoD Randeep Kaur Bal having been booked for abetting the suicide of Harpreet Singh, a student… Continue Reading →
‘The attempt to make Aadhaar mandatory has now emerged as an act of bullying by government agencies, turning citizens into subjects by making fundamental rights conditional on biometric identification,’ says Gopal Krishna. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Just a day before the… Continue Reading →
by Dr KS Sharma — ( The following are extracts from A paper presented by Dr KS Sharma at the XXXII Indian Social Science Congress held at New Delhi from 18′” December to 22nd December 2008. The Paper quotes Dr…. Continue Reading →
There is a need to speak out when the state’s biases result in crime and impunity by Usha Ramanathan | The targeting of Muslims, alleging that they were either eating beef or smuggling cows or transporting them for some purpose… Continue Reading →
While women, in general, have hailed an increase in the paid maternity leave from 12 weeks to 26 weeks, small and medium-sized companies are not so happy about it, write Stuti Benal, Samridhi Roy & Jigmet Lhamo TEHELKA WEB DESK… Continue Reading →