As many as 31 persons have been killed in an Iranian security forces crackdown on protests that erupted over the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after her arrest by the morality police. The country has…
Chennai: DMK leader and former Union Minister, A. Raja spoke against the Hindu religion while addressing a public gathering, triggering a strong response from the BJP. While addressing the gathering organised by the Dravidar…
Washington: China actively attempts to manipulate and dominate global discourse on Xinjiang and to discredit independent sources reporting ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity conducted against predominantly Muslim Uyghurs and members of other ethnic and…
Lucknow: The strength of undertrials in Uttar Pradesh prisons is three times more than that of convicts, which explains why the jails are overcrowded. As per the prison department reports, a total of 1,12,480…
Washington: US President Joe Biden has signed a new executive order to help ensure access to abortion. Biden, in virtual remarks from the White House on Wednesday, said that the measure responds to “the healthcare…
New Delhi: As the RTI Act completes 17 years of being in the statute books, the legal right, which enabled common people to know about the acts of omission and commission by public functionaries, is…
New Delhi: Expressing concern over the demolition of houses of protestors in states, United Nations Special Rapporteurs have taken up the matter with the Government of India urging it to stop what they called these…
New Delhi: Indian Muslims for Progress and Reform (IMPAR) has writtten a letter to Prime Minister against the excessive and disproportionate use of force against protestors by some states, and communal and divisive agenda pursued…
Bageshwar, Uttarakhand: In remote regions of the country where women are still unaware of or hesitant to claim their right to family property, Maya Devi’s struggle to wrest back the farm land her estranged, unemployed…
Chandigarh, May 18 (IANS) The stalemate between protesting farmers and the Punjab government led by Bhagwant Mann ended on Wednesday with a consensus on most of their demands, comprising beginning paddy sowing from June 10.…
