Ignoring Government of India taking strong exception to a United Nations (UN) special rapporteur (SR) report on caste-based discrimination, the United States (US) State Department’s “India 2015 Human Rights Report” has gone ahead and noted “significant discrimination against Dalits in access to services, such as health care, education, temple attendance,Continue Reading
Kolkata: Built at a cost of over Rs 2 crore, northeast has got its fastest supercomputer with a peak computing power of 15 Teraflops. Housed at the National Institute of Technology Sikkim’s campus, near Gangtok, the supercomputer, ‘PARAM Kanchenjunga’ is a collaboration between Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C—DAC)Continue Reading
Bhubaneswar: The two-day National Conference on Conservation of Eastern Ghats, organised in association with the Council of Green Revolution, began Saturday at Utkal University here. The Council for Green Revolution works for the protection of the ranges and through this conference, it aims to bring conservationists, academics and environmentalists together onContinue Reading
New Delhi: A 1987 report of the law commission had drawn a blueprint of the manpower required in the judiciary. At that time, the strength of the judiciary was 7,675 judges, or 10.5 judges per million people. The judge-population ratio (sanctioned strength) has since increased to 17 judges per millionContinue Reading
Patna: Members of the Pasi community or toddy-tappers Sunday demanded the state government to come out with notifications and advertisements to declare that there was no ban on collecting toddy (fermented palm tree sap) and selling it, except the few public places where its sale stands banned since 1991. They accusedContinue Reading
Revising the 2002 communal violence in Gujarat, the US state department’s new 67-page report on human rights situation in India has expressed “concern” over the Gujarat government’s “failure to hold accountable those responsible for the 2002 communal violence in Gujarat that resulted in the deaths of more than 1,200 persons,Continue Reading
On April 1 this year, 97 wine stores and bars were closed by the district administration in Shillong. This follows their failure to comply with the Meghalaya government’s amended rule 183 of the Meghalaya Excise Act of September 2015, which clearly prohibits issuing of licences to wine stores in areasContinue Reading
Such a tax in Mexico and US has significantly reduced consumption of sugar-sweetened beveragesContinue Reading
Thrissur: Sony George(45) , a resident of Pamboor, in Thrissur district has been arrested after posting indecent images in a Whatsapp Group. The arrest follows a complaint registered by the Group Admin. Sony had posted pictures involving a Christian priest and a lady in a group used by ladies andContinue Reading
Mumbai: The mother and brother of Rohith Vemula, the Dalit scholar who committed suicide in Hyderabad, on Thursday embraced Buddhism here, saying they were now “truly free from shame”. “If my brother were alive, he would have been proud of us,” younger brother Naga Chaitanya alias Raja Vemula told mediapersonsContinue Reading
