Saharanpur Dalits threaten to renounce ‘Hinduism’
The Dalits are a prominent section of the Hindu community in India. Yet, there are allegations that the Dalit community is not getting the kind of importance it deserves. In the past, a renowned...
PM Modi to meet US President Trump next week
At this juncture of history in which the speculation over the instability in the Indo-US relation is rife, the United States and India are attempting to bring the heydays of Indo-US bilateral relation back...
PWD unhappy with GST, write to FM about their disagreement
The organisations representing the ‘persons with disabilities’ have written a letter to the Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley, expressing their disagreement with the central government’s plan to impose the Goods and Services Tax on the...
Govt to empower weaver community
The weaving is a traditional job. A huge number of people still depend on this profession for their livelihood. The preponderance of them is those people belonging to the Other Backward Section communities, Muslims...
Rome’s mayor stiffens anti-migrant attitude
The Rome’s mayor, Virginia Raggi, who is the member of the Five Star Movement, has stiffened her stand on the migration issue, saying her city is not ready to take in any more migrants....
CPI (M) demands new MSP law
Mocking at the central government’s stand on the agrarian issue, the CPI (M) general secretary, Sitaram Yechury, has demanded a new Minimum Support Price law mandating the central government to deliver the annual minimum...
Russian authority detains opposition leader again
Accusing Alexei Navalny of violating the Russia’s law on staging rallies, the security authority has detained the prime opposition leader, along with hundreds of other young protesters who took part in a rally on...
Govt to launch unique personal data protection law
Identifying the inability of the current laws related to the personal data protection to prevent the misuse of the data, and the need for such a law to meet the requirements of the digital...
Malta supremo wins people’s support; verdict denounces corruption allegation
The result of the Malta snap election indicates that the Malta citizens overwhelmingly support their Prime Minister, Joseph Muscat, even if the supremo’s wife has embroiled in a corruption allegation. There have been allegations...
Over 31% of world’s multidimensionality poor children live in India: OPHI
Exposing the inefficiency of the poverty eradication programs which have been being executed by the Indian government since the independence, the report, published by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, finds...