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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

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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

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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

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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

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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