From New Delhi to the North East, and From the Bangalore to Patna, hundreds of well-meaning, saddened, shocked and indignant protesters stood up for the arbitrary arrest of an 83 year old Jesuit who has spent most of his life to bring social justice to the tribal communities of Jharkhand. At around 4 in the […]
More than 3000 people including several legal luminaries and retired Justices have signed an open letter, expressing their disappointment with the Supreme Court ruling in the now volatile ‘Prashant Bhushan Contempt of Court case’. The Court has convicted a prominent lawyer, Prashant Bhushan, for his tweets. The letter says, ” The tweets were a bona […]
The government of Sikkim, in an effort to help the many migrant workers, mainly from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Nepal , has directed their employers to pay them wages for the duration of the lockdown and has directed daily wagers’ landlords not to charge house rents for the same period. The order was issued on […]
The Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) has recently extended the deadline of payment of insurance premium of its policyholders to April 15, 2020. In order to help policyholders pay their insurance premium within the stipulated time, the LIC has urged them to make their payments online by going to the official website of LIC. […]
The Ministry of Civil Aviation has announced that no domestic commercial flights would operate from March 24 midnight. It’s not clear when the flights will be resumed, since the directive said ‘until further orders.’ “No domestic commercial flight will operate in India from Wednesday onward. Airlines will have to land all their domestic passenger flights […]
While most of the middle class in India is going to be under some sort of lock-down for the next 15 days at least, it’s very likely that a lot of idle time is going to give the telecom department a headache. Binge watching, streaming your favourite shows is going to put a load on […]
Even though Bihar hasn’t reported a single case of confirmed COVID-19 infection, Bihar is under the British era ‘Epidemic Act’. So now, government health officials can storm into your house and take you for forcible screening. Any geographical area can be sealed off and isolated. You can be punished for hiding symptoms. You can be […]
PATNA: The state health department in Bihar claimed on Sunday (March 8) to have screened a record number of 1.20 lakh passengers at different transit points along the Indo-Nepal border since January 15 this year after the outbreak of coronavirus. An official statement issued on Sunday said that a total number of 1,20,955 passengers were […]
Some 500 people living with HIV/AIDS , supported by the Chairman of the Global Alliance of Human rights, have appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to include them in the Centre’s flagship health protection scheme — Ayushman Bharat. As of now, people living with HIV (PLHA) still face rejection and denial of health services from […]
As one documentary film maker put it ,”The only way to control plastic is to ban it’, and the MP High Court has done just that. In Madhya Pradesh, you will no longer send your child to school with a plastic lunch box, so the court has ordered. The Madhya Pradesh High Court has passed […]
A day before the ‘mammoth’ rally against NRC was to take place, the Bihar Assembly passed a resolution against the NRC implementation. Bihar is the first NDA-ruled state to pass a resolution against the NRC and for the 2010 form of NPR, opening a window for the Centre to make a retreat on these issues, […]
On February 5, 2020, the Pink City of Rajasthan, Jaipur, received World Heritage Certificate from the UNESCO. Minister of Urban Development Shanti Dhariwal received this award in a ceremony held at Albert Hall.The UNESCO Director General Audrey Azoulay visited India to present the certificate. The world heritage certificate was presented to Jaipur for the efforts […]
