The Gambia ready to mark its fiftieth yr of independence on Wednesday, with festivities overshadowed by rising complaints over its rights report and the regime more and more seen overseas as a pariah. President Yahya Jammeh, who has dominated the previous British colony with an iron fist since seizing energy in 1994, was as a…
This year the World Day of Social Justice, February 20, is being observed with the theme of “Ending human trafficking and forced labour”. According to UN’s International Labour Organization (ILO), forced labour’s external link takes different forms, including debt bondage, trafficking and other forms of modern slavery and efforts need to be mounted to check…
CPI(M) today demanded that the Sri Lanka government launch an independent high-level probe into allegations of “countless attacks” and human rights violations against the country’s Tamil civilians during the 2009 civil war against LTTE and urged India to take diplomatic steps to ensure the welfare of the community in the island nation.
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For a government whose leader was recently roundly criticized for his ‘ahankar’, the performance put on by its lawyers in the Delhi High Court was astonishingly tone-deaf. Defending the decision to pull Greenpeace activist Priya Pillai off a plane, Additional Solicitor General Sanjay Jain made a series of statements that ought to be the stuff…
In Washington D.C. for a summit hosted by the United States on countering violent extremism, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon on Thursday warned leaders against “discarding our moral compass. He also spoke against giving into fear, as he called for “cool heads and common sense” to deal with what may very well be “the…
The Aligarh Muslim University Teachers’ Association (AMUTA) on Thursday alleged that the Gujarat government was attempting to harass human rights activists who have been fighting for minority rights in the country. “Noted human rights activist Teesta Setalvad is being harassed by the Gujarat government because she has been fearlessly and tirelessly fighting for the rights of…
In order to facilitate ‘Ease of Doing Business’, the Government has launched a single window government-to-business (G2B) portal for 11 central government services. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley made the portal public today.
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The Andhra Pradesh government has started working with software giant Wipro to develop AP State Enterprise Architecture (APSEA) which will create a digital repository of the state’s data and work with all departments on the government’s vision of 7 missions, 5 grids and 4 campaigns. The APSEA project has been kick-started following the Chief Minister…
The Punjab government on Thursday introduced a new step to simplify pension payment to its retired employees or their dependants by allowing them digital life certificates. According to a state spokesman, necessary amendments have been made in Para 13 of the instructions issued by the finance department on June 13, 1977.
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Mobile marketplace Paytm wants to make cashless payments a habit. In a bid to get more users to this unique payment method, Paytm has announced plans to set up 30,000 to 50,000 offline retail shops to help people recharge their digital wallet and also provide basic customer care.
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