Bengaluru, Feb 16, 2020: Shashi Tharoor, a former federal minister and current Member of Parliament, has stressed greater allocation of GDP for health to help the poor and improve health facilities across India. Tharoor said this on February 15 while addressing the 56th annual convocation and college day of StContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, Feb 15, 2020: Renowned human rights activist Harsh Mander has released a comprehensive report on the alleged police firing that killed many in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Mandar, a former civil service officer, released the report in Hindi and English titled “A State atContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Bengaluru, Feb 15, 2020: The corona virus epidemics that broke in Wuhan province of China and later spread to other countries affected the third Global Public Health Conference in Bengaluru, southern India. Several overseas participants had to cancel the trip in the last minute, Isanka Gamage, theContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Bengaluru, Feb 15, 2020: An international conference has underlined the need for “equal rights, equal opportunities and equal participation for women” to eradicate deep-rooted disparity and discrimination prevalent in all nations. “An equal world is an enabled world,” asserted Anita Singh of the Center for Women’s StudiesContinue Reading
Amravati, Feb 15, 2020: On Valentine’s Day, students at an all-girls college in Maharashtra were made to take a pledge against the concept of love marriage. Students at the Mahila Arts and Commerce College, Chandur Railway, took the pledge in Marathi that they “will not love anyone and never haveContinue Reading
By Oliver Whang New Delhi, Feb. 14,2020 — Sitting in his basement, below the crowded dirt roads of Wazirabad village, Mohammad Saud leaned over the body of an injured black kite. The room was cramped, its walls chipping blue paint, the noise from the streets above drowned out by theContinue Reading
Guwahati, Feb. 15,2020: “For the last twenty years, my only innermost wish has been to perform Hajj. I wish Allah somehow fulfills that dream,” Sakina Khatun says. A visibly devastated Sakina explains that not many people in their area have been able to go to Mecca for the annual HajjContinue Reading
Thiruvanathapuram, Feb. 2020: The legislative assembly unanimously passed the Kerala Christian (Malankara Orthodox- Jacobite) (Right to burial of bodies in cemeteries) Bill 2020 on Tuesday. Law Minister A K Balan said the law that ensured the funeral of a parishioner in cemeteries belonging to his or her respective parish wasContinue Reading
New Delhi, Feb 14, 2020: In a significant decision, the Assam government has decided to shut down all government madrasas and Sanskrit tols, to reinvent themselves as high and higher secondary schools. Finance and education minister Himanta Biswa Sarma quoted as saying that the government would bring about a regulationContinue Reading
Bidar, Feb 14, 2020: The principal of school in Karnataka and the mother of a student, who were arrested in earlier February over a play critical of the Citizenship Amendment Act, have been granted bail. The play was staged in the school run by the Shaheen Group of Institutions byContinue Reading
