Month December 2017
Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – More than 120 countries defied President Donald Trump on Thursday and voted in favor of a United Nations General Assembly resolution calling for the United States to drop its recent recognition of Jerusalem as… Continue Reading →
By- Prempanicker During my time away, a story that fascinated me — in a train-wreck kind of way, and as a cautionary tale of the danger of the media disseminating half-baked news — relates to the murder of one Paresh… Continue Reading →
Two of the four women who were allegedly raped by Baba Sachidanand | Photo Credit: ANI Basti: Four women devotees an ashram in Uttar Pradesh’s Basti district on Wednesday claimed that they were raped and torture by Baba Sachidanand and… Continue Reading →
By JKR Staff – It was the news agency PTI, which first reported that Chief Electoral Officer of Gujarat had accepted of a mismatch between the electronic count of votes and the paper count on at least four booths. No media outlets… Continue Reading →
ADITYA MENON| U (AFP) In the Gujarat Assembly elections, over 5.5 lakh people chose to press the button on None of the Above (NOTA), instead of voting for any of the 1828 candidates who were in the fray. This section… Continue Reading →
G NAGA SRIDHAR Sees need for caution in the manner in which biometric data are used HYDERABAD, DECEMBER 19: Even as the debate on the pros and cons of mandatory Aadhaar applicability for many services goes on, a study conducted… Continue Reading →
Law-abiding citizens’ money being diverted!! Recently you would have read about Airtel company’s eKYC (Aadhaar linking service) license being suspended temporarily. Here’s how Airtel managed to divert gas subsidy in the pretext of mobile-Aadhaar linking: https://thewire.in/206951/airtel-aadhaar-uidai/ Please remember! — If you… Continue Reading →
Only time can tell if Dr Jaswant Singh Yadav, a BJP minister from Rajasthan, will pay the price for his recent ‘oops’. Dev Ankur Wadhawan – HIGHLIGHTS 1 Yadav is the Labour and Employment minister in Raje-led Rajasthan govt. 2… Continue Reading →
by Ravinder Randhawa. For more than thirty years Pav Singh tried to figure out what had happened. As had Sikhs in India and across the diaspora. Churasee, the Punjabi word for 1984, is a deep wound in the Sikh psyche…. Continue Reading →
Bhasker Tripathi, New Delhi: Over five years to 2017, thermal power plants–among India’s chief polluters–pushed nationwide levels of sulphur dioxide (SO2), a toxic gas, by 32% and fine particles called PM 2.5 by 34%. Despite agreeing to a two-year… Continue Reading →