Day September 12, 2017
By JKR Staff – Loan Waiver for farmers of Uttar Pradesh was one of the biggest promises made during the state elections campaign early this year. ‘Krishi Rin Mochan Yojna’ (farm loan waiver scheme) launched by The Yogi Adityanath Government… Continue Reading →
Up to 15,000 people including writers, journalists and academics have turned out in Bangalore to condemn the murder of Indian journalist Gauri Lankesh. The message, “I am Gauri,” was everywhere – from arm bands and head bands to the slogans… Continue Reading →
Mr Shyam Divan spoke on “Coercion, Consent and our Constitution: The Aadhar Enigma” as a part of the NALSAR Lecture Series on Constitutionalism Divan believes that citizens of this country should be given a choice as to what they… Continue Reading →
NUJS IDIA volunteers assaulted in bid to stop slum demolition FacebookTwitterWhatsAppShare10 In an act of heavy-handedness, six students of National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS), Kolkata were assaulted on Sunday. The students, who were volunteers with Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access (IDIA),… Continue Reading →
President Temer is courting the mining companies and their political backers by breaking into pristine rainforest Alan Tormaid Campbell Sunday 10 September 2017 00.05 BSTLast modified on Sunday 10 September 2017 00.32 BST On 23 August it emerged that the president of Brazil, Michel… Continue Reading →
Speaking to The Indian Express over phone, Amarpreet Singh, managing director, Khalsa Aid, India who has reached Teknaf, a border town in Bangladesh where the refugees are living in the camps, said that condition at the border was “miserable to… Continue Reading →
United Nations Human Rights Council official Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein said that Myanmar’s “brutal security operation” against Muslim Rohingyas in Rakhine state seemed a textbook example of ethnic cleansing. HIGHLIGHTS 1 Zeid decries “brutal security operation” against Rohingyas. 2 The UN human… Continue Reading →
By David Gilbert Seven years ago nearly 400 million people in India did not exist in the eyes of the government. They were “ghosts” who had no identity and no way of getting one, says Sahil Kini, one of the architects… Continue Reading →
More than one official familiar with the probe into Lankesh’s killing said that although the investigation remained open in terms of tracking down the killers — and formal forensics and ballistics reports are awaited — there has been a… Continue Reading →
By David Gilbert Criminals managed to circumvent the “robust” security of India’s biometric database to issue over 8 million fake identity cards — which Indian citizens use for everything from opening bank accounts to getting married. Police in the northern Indian state of… Continue Reading →