On September 29, 2021, a man and woman in the Dumka district of Jharkhand were stripped and paraded naked for being in an extra-marital relationship. Against this incident, human rights organisation the National Confederation of…
SIT report leak, betrayal of trust: Supreme Court
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed concern at selective leakage of the Special Investigation Team’s report on the Gujarat riot cases in the media, while reserving verdict on a batch of petitions filed…
No form of corporal punishment will be tolerated:…
CHENNAI: The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) will soon write to Collectors across the country, instructing them to hold meetings with all school heads and convey that no form of corporal punishment…
End of boom time for India's newspaper market
IN Mumbai's boisterous media world, DNA is not the stuff of crime sleuths but the masthead of Daily News & Analysis, a bright and breezy newspaper that is quite prepared to put a half-page ad…
Study suggests transfer of poor health from mother…
Boston, MA—Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have found a link between a mother's height and the health of her children in a study using national data from India. according to UNICEF,…
Guantanamo happens everyday in India
We in India are so happy with the India-US civil nuclear deal and the active role played by president George W Bush in pushing it through -- we are still to live down the embarrassing…
Conference on human rights and environment to be…
Iran is scheduled to hold its first International Conference on Human Rights and Environment at Tehran's Shahid Beheshti University. Organized by the UNESCO Chair for Human Rights, Peace and Democracy of Shahid Beheshti University, the…
Community under siege
Three-year-old Musab was playing barefooted in the dusty lanes of Sanjarpur, a non-descript village of Azamgarh in eastern UP. As soon as he heard the name of his elder brother, Saif, he stopped and gaped…
A Lesson for hypocrite Nationalists
While India is passing through its 15th general elections, at the same time the only alive terrorist caught in the Mumbai terror attack on November 26 (26/11) last year, is facing trial. The whole nation…