Category: Rights

Calais ‘Jungle’ evictions to resume

London, March 1 (IANS) Demolition teams are due to return to the French port of Calais to dismantle more makeshift…

9 years ago

NGT to hold day-to-day hearing on Art of Living event

New Delhi, March 1 (IANS) The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday adjourned till Wednesday the hearing on a plea…

9 years ago

New legislation in China outlaws domestic abuse

Beijing, March 1 (IANS) China's first law targeting violence within the home came into force on Tuesday, outlining a new…

9 years ago

Pakistan, India ties susceptible to mood swings: Daily

Islamabad, March 1 (IANS) Pakistan and India must work to reduce human misery, said a leading Pakistani daily which observed…

9 years ago

Facebook fined $109,330 in Germany over user content

New York, March 1 (IANS) A German court has fined social networking giant Facebook $109,330 for failing to comply with…

9 years ago

Food Security Act to be implemented in UP from Tuesday

Lucknow, March 1 (IANS) The Food Security Act is set to be implemented across Uttar Pradesh from Tuesday, an official…

9 years ago

Paltry increase in budget for judiciary and its infrastructure

New Delhi, Feb 29 (IANS) The union budget for 2016-17 has earmarked Rs.900 crore for the development of judicial infrastructure…

9 years ago

Former minister Thungon gets over three year jail term for corruption

New Delhi, Feb 29 (IANS) A court on Monday sentenced, to a three and a half year imprisonment, former union…

9 years ago

India to give visa on arrival to Japanese visitors from March 1

New Delhi, Feb 29 (IANS) Japanese nationals visiting India will start getting visa on arrival from March 1, it was…

9 years ago

SC asks trial court for daily hearings in Saibaba’s case

New Delhi, Feb 29 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday asked a Maharashtra court to hold daily hearings into the…

9 years ago

No gang rapes in Murthal during Jat stir, Haryana tells HC

Chandigarh, Feb 29 (IANS) Submitting a status report on the alleged Murthal gang rapes, the Haryana government on Monday told…

9 years ago

No video of Kanhaiya shouting anti-national slogans: Delhi Police to HC

New Delhi, Feb 29 (IANS) The Delhi Police on Monday admitted on Monday before the Delhi High Court that "it…

9 years ago

Manipur court releases Irom Sharmila

Imphal, Feb 29 (IANS) A court here on Monday released Irom Sharmila, who has been on a 15-year-long hunger strike…

9 years ago

JNU students Umar, Anirban’s police custody extended

New Delhi, Feb 29 (IANS) The police custody of JNU students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, facing sedition charges for…

9 years ago

Ex-CJI Dattu takes over NHRC chief

New Delhi, Feb 29 (IANS) Former chief justice of India H.L. Dattu on Monday took over as the National Human…

9 years ago

Malala lauds Pakistan’s Sharmeen on getting Oscar

Islamabad, Feb 29 (IANS) Pakistani activist for female education and youngest ever Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai on Monday congratulated Sharmeen…

9 years ago

Withdraw FIR against Yechury, scrap sedition clause in IPC: CPI-M

Kolkata/New Delhi, Feb 29 (IANS) The CPI-M on Monday demanded the withdrawal of sedition cases registered against its general secretary…

9 years ago

HC order on Kanhaiya’s bail on Wednesday, slams police

New Delhi, Feb 29 (IANS) The Delhi High Court said it will pass an order on Wednesday on the bail…

9 years ago

Pakistan hangs Punjab governor Taseer’s killer

Islamabad, Feb 29 (IANS) A self-confessed killer of the then Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer was hanged on Monday in Rawalpindi,…

9 years ago

Two to die in Pakistan for honour killing

Islamabad, Feb 29 (IANS) A Pakistani court sentenced two brothers to death on Monday for killing their sister and her…

9 years ago



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