Month March 2018
NEW DELHI: Sounding a warning that over five billion people across the globe may run into water shortage, a United Nations report has pointed out that dams in India have done more harm than good to the cause of… Continue Reading →
By: Rob Okun | It’s time to listen to students. Across the country, teenagers have walked out of classes, stood in silence, and delivered stirring speeches calling out their elders for failing to prevent their schools from becoming shooting ranges for raging… Continue Reading →
UIDAI has been asked to submit its response on the matter on April 23. The court in the latest order has noted, “on what basis the Aadhaar Card has been issued giving that date of birth, is wholly un-understood by Sofi… Continue Reading →
The Indian government is making a lot of noise about the Cambridge Analytica fiasco, but Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg won’t worry about threats like those of Law & IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad(Photo: Ankita Das/The Quint) VAKASHA SACHDEV India tried… Continue Reading →
Romila Thapar’s comments come in the backdrop of charges by a section of academicians that varsities, including the JNU, were being targeted and the space for critical thinking and dissent was shrinking. Noted… Continue Reading →
👤by Northeast Today Two tribal children were killed after an outbreak of measles in Manipur, said K. Rajo, Director of Health Services, on Thursday. Over 50 other children have also been affected by this disease. Officials said that the disease… Continue Reading →
By Navin J Antony The UIDAI CEO attempted to allay concerns about data security On March 22, the Supreme Court gave Ajay Bhushan Pandey, the chief executive officer of the Unique Identification Authority of India, a rather unique opportunity—to make… Continue Reading →
It is worth looking back on the general progress made by courts across the country in promoting the Constitutional mandate of gender equality. To that end, here are some cases touching upon women’s rights, that have raised eyebrows in the… Continue Reading →
By Pratik Sinha – After a French security researcher claimed in a series of tweets that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s application “NarendraModi.in” is sending personal information of its users to a third party website in.wzrkt.com, Alt News fact-checked his claim and… Continue Reading →
The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) strongly condemns the physical violence meted out to journalists covering a padyatra (long march) by students and teachers of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi on March 23. Organised by… Continue Reading →