All India institute of medical science to develop a new facility in which all treatments, testing and care for sexual abuse survivors such as physical examinations, injuries, forensic tests, DNA profiling, and psychological and psychiatric care will be provided under one roof. The proposal, by AIIMS, for a National One-Stop Sexual Assault Examination, Care and […]
Business organisations using Aadhaar services will now have to pay ₹20 for each customer verification and 50 paise for authentication of each transaction carried out by the entities, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) said on Thursday. “Aadhaar authentication services shall be charged at the rate of ₹20 (including taxes) for each e-KYC transaction […]
Govt. of India has launched the world’s largest pension scheme for the workers in the unorganised sector: Prime Minister Shram Yogi Mandhan (PM-SYM) Yojana. In the interim Budget in February this year, the national pension scheme for workers and labourers of the unorganised sector was mensioned by Union Minister Piyush Goyal. Yesterday, PM Modi officially […]
No matter how hard they try to brush it under the carpet, the facts are out. Unemployment rates in India are up, and the ghost of PM Modi’s grand demonetization exercise isn’t going away. The unemployment rate in India rose to 7.2 per cent in February 2019, the highest since September 2016, and up from […]
Who says poetry isn’t useful? Poems written by a condemned man became a reason for the Supreme Court to spare him from the gallows. Dyaneshwar Suresh Borkar’s poems that he wrote during the 18 years of his incarceration became a mirror to his reformed soul, the Supreme Court found, according to local news reports. In […]
Lakhs of tribals living in forest areas across different parts of the country got a respite from displacement after Supreme Court put hold its earlier order to remove these forest families following a petition by the Centre. The order by apex court was expected to affect around 11 lakh families across 21 states. As the […]
Ending discrimination is the responsibility of all, everyone can play a part in ending discrimination and can try to make a difference big or small. Discrimination undermine efforts to achieve a more just and equitable world and causes pain and suffering for many. Zero discrimination day is celebrated on 1st of March, call for ending […]
NEW DELHI, Feb 27: Over 11,000 pages of documents, mostly deposition of witnesses in Hindi, need to be translated into English, a task that would require 120 working days, for the Supreme Court hearing in the Ayodhya land dispute matter, says an IANS report. As per information provided by the Supreme Court’s Secretary General to […]
LOS ANGELES: Green Book — backed by Anil D. Ambani- owned Reliance Entertainment’s Amblin Entertainment — and a film which explores race relations in the US in the 1960s, won the Best Picture honour at the 91st Academy Awards, apart from two other awards. The banner’s First Man also registered a win. The film also […]
Good news for the railway passengers, just like airlines, railways will now issue linked PNRs for connecting journeys allowing passengers to cancel their onward journey without any cancellation fee, if it is due to delay in the first leg, a senior official of the Railways said on Friday. The facility, which will begin from April […]
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has alleged that efforts are on to introduce an “inhuman” religion in the country on the basis of divisive politics. In an apparent attack on the BJP Banerjee accused BJP of trying to impose its choice of food, clothing and religion on the people and then deciding who would […]
MP government mulling to ban PUBG (Player Unknown Battle Ground) the battle game that is widespread across the world and has triggered controversy for its “violence and addictive nature” The government says it has received several complaints that youngsters are addicted to the online game that is affecting their board exam. During a reply to […]
