The State Human Rights Commission has handed over to the higher education secretary the application seeking same moderation mark for the Set exam (general category) conducted on February 2. The commission has also asked the government to consider it. The government announced two per cent moderation mark for the general category on the suggestion of…
Thousands of Rohingya Muslims and Bangladeshi abandoned at sea had nowhere to turn Thursday as Malaysia turned away a boat crammed with more than 500 migrants, saying it could not afford to keep being nice. Indonesia and Thailand also appeared unwilling to provide refuge to men, women and children, despite appeals by the U.N. High…
Beyond the visible causes for September 2014 deluge in valley, lie the subtle reasons rooted in the network of occupation. The recently released document by Coalition of Civil Society (CCS), entitled ‘Occupational Hazards’ has brought to fore the uncounted repercussions of militarization of Kashmir. In conversation with Saima Bhat, the researchers behind the report, have…
The new policy of Government of India, which mandates the use of Open Source Software (OSS) for e-governance applications, will add strategic value to the Digital India Initiative, B Ramani, Director of the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) has said. He was inaugurating the ‘CDAC-ICFOSS Joint Consultation on the OSS Policy of Government…
The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (MYAS) has decided to discontinue with the practice of sending letters/ circulars / guidelines in hard copy form to National Sports Federations (NSFs) /IOA. The Ministry has decided that hence forth, communications required to be sent to all NSFs / a group of NSFs with copy to IOA…
Applications for the government’s marriage assistance and child protection schemes can be submitted at the 169 public service centres set up under the State government’s e-governance project in the district, Collector K.S. Palanisamy said on Friday. While 146 of the public service centres are run by various primary agricultural cooperative societies, 12 are run by…
Office of the Director of Kannada and Culture will be the first in the State to turn into an entirely paperless office (PLO) shortly, under the core-Mission Mode Project of National e-Governance Plan of the Centre. Officials in the department said unlike a few offices, which claim to have become PLOs with the support of…
What do Mahatma Gandhi and competitive boxers have in common? They’ve both been powerful advocates for human rights, a group of fighters and advocates said Sunday at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. A Romani-German boxer the Nazis discriminated against bleached his hair blond and covered his body with flour to mock the regime’s vision…
Imagine that one man owned everything. Call him Croesus, after the king of ancient lore who, Herodotus says, was so “wonderfully rich” that he “thought himself the happiest of mortals.” Impossibly elevated above his fellow men and women, this modern Croesus is also magnanimous. He does not want people to starve, and not only because…
Britain’s relationship with privacy is complicated. Our strongly ingrained attachment to the benefits of private property underpins the idea that personal privacy is about the existence of an almost physical sphere. It is one of the reasons that phone-hacking by journalists seemed such a shocking means of intrusion: it amounted to an almost visceral entry…