“Pregnant women and girls risk putting their health and lives in danger if they remain in Ireland,” says an Amnesty report on Ireland’s abortion laws Savita Halappanavar’s death in October 2012 from infection, after she was not allowed to terminate her pregnancy forced international attention on the controversial abortion laws in Ireland, but according to…
When Hillary Rodham Clinton gathers her supporters at Four Freedoms Park on New York’s Roosevelt Island for a campaign kickoff rally Saturday, the president she will identify herself with won’t be her husband, Bill Clinton, or either of the presidents who appointed her to posts in their administrations, Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter. Instead, she…
For the employees of the famous hill shrine Sabarimala their ‘brief’ discomfort is about to end. The temple is planning to deploy robots to count its money. The plan is to have enough robots to man God’s vault by next year putting an end to theft from its coffers. Employees of the money-counting centre at…
Chanakya National Law University (CNLU) vice-chancellor A Lakhminath said here on Tuesday that even as the present-day education in India has become the worst victim of politics, the academics should strive hard to keep education above politics. Delivering the valedictory address at the 71st orientation programme for college teachers of the state organized by Patna…
A decade ago, New Delhi-based non-profit organization Aman Trust applied to the ministry of home affairs for a licence under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA) after foreign donors approached the trust with financial aid. Among them were the Ford Foundation, The Hunger Project and the Tides Foundation. Over the years, however, the non-profit that…
Delhi government is working towards encouraging use of mobile and e-governance to eliminate corruption and red tapism from the system, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia today said. Sisodia, also the Finance Minister in the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP dispensation was addressing an interactive session on ‘Delhi 2020 – A Smart Place to Live, Work and Do…
Today, India is considered to be one of the main hubs for online education businesses and startups. Whether it is tutorials, courses, or skill training, online education is picking up at a fast pace in the country. With Narendra Modi’s skill up India campaign, there are more organisations venturing into the space of online education…
Global consultancy EY today opened first managed Security Operations Centre (SOC) at Kazhakootam and will invest $ 20 million over 5 years to combat increasing threat of cyber crimes. The centre, opened at the Kerala Infrastructure and Film and Video Park at Kazhakootam near here, is the first of its kind set up by EY…
The laborious paperwork involved in the application process for a passport is now made easier for orphaned and abandoned children. Along with the compulsory birth certificate document, a Matriculation Certificate issued by an educational institution and a Bonafide certificate from the head of the Childcare/Orphanage will now do. Majors born before January 26, 1989, can…