Month November 2018
Has death penalty for rape of children made it more likely that little ones will be killed? November 13, 2018 A three-year-old girl who had been missing from her home was found brutally raped and murdered in Gurgaon. According to… Continue Reading →
Mumbai Badri Chatterjee INDEPENDENT STUDY Says bullet was fired when animal was looking away; tranquilliser dart was inserted after her death MUMBAI: The killing of tigress T1, also known as Avni, on November 2 was not only a violation… Continue Reading →
Some use it to improve harvest Several Cultivators In Punjab Are Employing Paddy Residue To Create Fertilisers That Are Ploughed Back Into Their Fields [email protected] Come autumn and the vexatious issue of stubble burning in northern India sets off alarm… Continue Reading →
₹13 Crore Claims Unpaid In Two Dists By One Co [email protected] Mumbai: As many as 10,322 farmers with crop insurance claims worth Rs 13 crore due from the United India Insurance Company Ltd (UIIC) in two districts have not got… Continue Reading →
A G Noorani The University Grants Commission seems not to have the faintest conception of academic freedom. The Aligarh Muslim University is very much a “central university”. The University Grants Commission seems not to have the faintest conception of academic… Continue Reading →
At the height of the Cold War in 1982, American psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton argued that the “central existential fact of the nuclear age is vulnerability.” That warning predated the proliferation of computers into almost every aspect of modern life,… Continue Reading →
– Brinda Karat Novenber 10, 2018 Recent developments in Pakistan on the Asia Bibi case should serve as a warning for us in India. Although in entirely different circumstances, the relevance for us in India of the Pakistani case is… Continue Reading →
Ghar Bachao Ghar Banao Andolan ●Maharashtra Govt to Consider temporary rehabilitation at Kurla HDIL ●Struggle by Mahul Residents Continues Unabated until assurance gets materialised Mumbai | 12th November 2018: After 16 days of continuous protest by the determined residents of… Continue Reading →
MILAN VAISHNAV, JAMIE HINTSON Summary: Seven decades after India gained independence, women are still woefully underrepresented as political candidates in state and national elections. Yet despite their gross underrepresentation as politicians in the upper echelons of India’s electoral system, women have… Continue Reading →
IANS= Getty Image Facebook file photo Facebook is encouraging grooming by offering teenage girls middle-aged men as ‘friend suggestions’ Facebook is encouraging grooming by offering teenage girls middle-aged men as ‘friend suggestions’, the media reported. Teenage girls, as young as… Continue Reading →