'I Am Yet To Understand GST, Even CAs Are Unable To Get It,' Says BJP Minister In MP
"Bade bade CA nahin samajh paa rahe hain, vyapari nahin samajh paa rahe hain," said Om Prakash Dhurve in a gathering.
Tipu Jayanti: Heavy Security Deployed, Section 144 Imposed In Karnataka's Kodagu
After witnessing major clash in 2015 in the state over the celebrations of Tipu Sultan Jayanti, the Karnataka Government last year decided to make the event an annual affair.
Newborns Starting Life As 'Smokers' In Delhi's Polluted Air, Say Experts
The AQI indicates the level of pollution. For example, the one Central Pollution Control Board shares ranges between 0 and 500.
Pilot Refuses To Fly After 'Duty Hours' Forcing Passengers To Travel By Road
Officials said some of the passengers were taken to Delhi by road while others were provided hotel accommodation and the rest were sent in another flight this morning.
Central Govt Employees Can Now Take Advance Upto Rs 25 Lakh For Purchase Of New Home
Earlier, the maximum borrowing limit was Rs 7.50 lakh with interest rate slabs ranging from 6 per cent to 9.50 per cent.
Delhi's Odd-Even Scheme: 13 Lakh Less Cars Expected Per Day, Govt Hires 500 More Buses
The scheme will be in place from 8 am to 8 pm and there will exemptions for women drivers and two-wheelers.
Kerala Solar Scam: Ex-CM Oommen Chandy Had Oral Sex With Saritha, Alleges Judicial Panel
The Justice G Sivarajan commission's four-volume 1,073 page report that probed the scam was tabled by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan in the state assembly on Thursday at a special session
Shaadi Mein Zaroor Aana: This Is One Wedding Date That Could Be Marked On Your Calendar
In its essence, the Rajkummar Rao and Kriti Kharbanda flick is a love story well-told, mostly managing to rise above clichés in favour of a fairly tightly-knit narrative.
Meet Odisha's Doctor Omkar Hota, Who Carried Bleeding Pregnant Woman On Cot For 10 Km
A state that saw a Dana Majhi carrying his wife’s dead body for over 12 km, Odisha’s Doctor Omkar Hota has done what doctors seldom do.
We, The People
Citizens must take active role in combating localised sources of air pollution. Examples from Mumbai show that every effort is important.
Pandemic Growth Is the Worst Over Yet?
India may eventually regain its No. 5 rank among world economies. But the bounce-back won’t be risk-free.
Rights Diary
Journalist Makepeace Sitlhou asks when it comes to the North East, whose rights is it anyway?
Floydian Slip
For Black lives in the US and Dalit lives in India, what needs to change is not only unjust laws, but the distribution of power.
Our Wronged Rights
Shaheen Bagh, the inhumanity of migrants trudging home, activists being jailed. The significance of human rights has perhaps never been more pronounced.
Just Conduct Under The Indian State
There is no inherent tension between national security and human rights in the minds of soldiers. The debate should be directed at the government that makes policies and enacts laws.
Evidence Of Absence
Human rights? Gender, especially when overlaid with caste, shows us that half the world is in permanent shadow.
Rights Of Nature
Conferring an abstract set of ‘rights’ on Planet Earth, at the cost of the poorest humans, is a new elite manoeuvre for control
Camus In Kashmir
The long solitudes of 2020 have given everyone occasion to “grow tired of prisons” and see the only hope in fighting for love
In Search Of Sadda Haq
A disabled doctor fighting for wages, an interfaith couple marrying against parents’ wishes, two lovers fighting for what they wouldn’t have to fight for if they weren’t both male, a Kashmiri villager trying to save his forest home...these and more tales of people struggling for what should be theirs.
Pray, Speak The Truth, Milords!
Court rulings in cases of illegal detentions raise questions about the judiciary’s failure to uphold rights of citizens
From The Ballad Of Indian Gaols
Rights activists in jail on various charges under the UAPA continue their fight for justice.
Silent Alarm
Less knocks on NHRC’s door while violations keep rising are a wake-up call. It must get back to keeping the State alert.
Tiger, Tiger Whining Bright!
What was supposed to be India’s watchdog against rights violations has turned into what critics call a government arm for obfuscation and occasional apologies
Mind The Gap
A smorgasbord of rights violations is aided by the dysfunctionality of legislatures. Dispiritingly, the Supreme Court is unable to enforce its own enlightened judgments in favour of individual rights against the state.
Of Rage, Courage And Democracy
What does fearlessness have to do with democratic citizenship—and the formal rights entailed in it? A contrastive reading of Savarkar and Gandhi offers us cues.
In Our Roots Are Our Rights
The global parameters of human rights, based on Western concepts, do not fit in the Indian context.
Nailed To The Cross, Ripe For Rescue
Name-calling, intimidation and ham-fisted use of state repression—India is under siege from a few driving a majoritarian agenda. Progress will come only when citizens from dominant groups recognise the equal rights of all minorities and then force change from within.