BANGKOK — With the emergence of Covid an estimated 375.8 million people in the Asia and the Pacific region faced hunger in 2020, which is nearly 54 million more people than in 2019, according to a joint report just published by the Food and Agriculture Organisation...
Students and citizen collectives in Delhi gathered at the Press Club of India on Wednesday to recount the police brutality and to commemorate the incarcerated anti- CAA- NRC protesters as December 15 2021 marks the second anniversary of the police crackdown on...
The incident came to light after a passerby noticed a man lying unresponsive inside the manhole and alerted the police BHOPAL – The Madhya Pradesh government on Wednesday ordered an FIR against a Gujarat-based private firm that was awarded a sewage work contract, a...
Digvijaya Singh on Monday invited stand-up comedians Kunal Kamra and Munawar Faruqui to perform in the state capital, but with a rider Bhopal: Veteran Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Digvijaya Singh on Monday invited stand-up comedians Kunal Kamra and Munawar...
Nearly 57% of those arrested under the draconian UAPA between 2018 and 2020 were under the age of 30, the Union told Parliament on Tuesday, citing crime statistics compiled by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). In a written reply, junior home minister Nityanand...
The investigating officer pointed out that the incident was well-planned and a deliberate act, and not of negligence or callousness. LAKHIMPUR KHERI — The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the October 3 Lakhimpur Kheri violence, has filed an application before...
“There is nothing left, we became homeless, with no food to eat or clothing to wear,” says Lalu Toliya Wakhala who has been harassed by Hindutva groups because of his faith in Christianity for more than a decade. Last month, on 28 November, Lalu’s home in Jhirawaliya...
India made headlines on the first of December as it expressed its resentment when the OHCHR (Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights) conveyed its concern on the arrest of Kashmir’s prominent human rights defender Khurram Parvez and the recent...
No Place for such black laws in a democracy, say speakers at meeting called by PUCL, CFD, Janhastakshep and Lawyers For Democracy NEW DELHI – Marking the Human Rights Day on December 11, prominent civil society groups and activists as well as lawyers held a public...
In a controversial move, Kerala Police informed a local court in a remand report that it is speculating ‘terrorist links’ of the Muslim leaders of Congress party who protested demanding state accountability on the suicide of a 21-year-old Mofiya Parveen allegedly...