After days of confrontation, the Shani Shingnapur trust today allowed women devotees to enter the sanctum sanctorum of the famous temple. The temple officials held a meeting and reportedly made a decision to allow a limited number of both men and women to enter the area, after a brief time period of confusion, when over…
Responding to the vulnerability of its online service network, the Indian Railways is all set for a thorough cyber audit. Identifying the passenger reservation system (PRS), online freight system, and railways’ communication network as the delicate areas, the ministry has ordered a zone-wise audit of the online system. A meeting in this regard was held…
When was the last time the Indian Parliament debated anything related to the internal affairs of an alien nation? Forget alien nation, the record of nearly 20-plus years shows that our political parties are busy pulling each other down in Parliamentary debates and very few, if any of these debates have been about or in…
There are some 18 million children living on the streets in India, according to data compiled by UNICEF (2000). Fifty four of them, along with a collective of some 14 civil society organisations from India and Nepal, met with officers of the UN Convention on Child Rights (UNCRC) this week in New Delhi to put…