Month November 2017
Suparna Dutt D’Cunha , Indians queue near an ATM counter at an Indian bank to withdraw money in Bangalore on November 21, 2016. (Photo credit AFP/Getty Images). Last year on November 8, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared that all 500… Continue Reading →
The pattern of burning crop residue in India is changing. The practice is no longer limited to the post-monsoon crop of rice or the northern states of Punjab and Haryana ANALYSIS Fields on fire: crop intensification is the culprit INFOGRAPHICS… Continue Reading →
Srilakshmi says that the VC was out to get her because she had previously filed a case against him. Pheba Mathew A Dalit woman, who has worked hard through her life to achieve a PhD, has been blocked from pursuing… Continue Reading →
’ | Kanika Mehta | NEW DELHI: A day after DCW chief Swati Maliwal paid visit to the minor gangrape survivor at the Baba Saheb Ambedkar Hospital in Outer Delhi, father of the seven-year-old girl told The Pioneer how his daughter was… Continue Reading →
By Dhinesh Kallungal | Tribal women in Adichithottil tribal colony at Malakkappara. KOCHI: The fall in birth rate often associated with the developed West has been plaguing a tribal village located deep within the forest in central Kerala. But Adichithottil tribal colony in… Continue Reading →
PALASH KRISHNA MEHROTRA| (AFP/Dominique FAGET) Supreme Court judge Justice DY Chandrachud, who helmed the landmark judgement on Right to Privacy, has recently questioned a 2016 court order making it mandatory for the National Anthem to be played in cinema halls…. Continue Reading →
Search engine giant Google today paid rich tribute to Kathak queen Sitara Devi on her 97th birth anniversary with a doodle. Sitara Devi was a legendary Kathak dancer. Search engine giant Google today paid rich tribute to Kathak queen… Continue Reading →
Development economist Jean Dreze has been vociferous critic of the Narendra Modi government‘s demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes a year back. He had famously warned that “demonetisation in a booming economy is like shooting at the tyres of a… Continue Reading →
By- Anupam Saraf Dear HR In response to your drive to update Aadhaar I would like to draw your attention to the following: 1. More than a dozen PILs including several challenging the Aadhaar and its linking to various… Continue Reading →
Tell Mobile Companies and Government We Are Not For Sale Switch off your mobiles at 11 am on 11/11 #NoMobile #NoAaadhar Earlier this year, the government ordered us to link our mobile connections to our Aadhaar numbers or have our mobile… Continue Reading →