Transgender Bill : Parliamentary panel invites public suggestions
New Delhi : The parliamentary panel examining the Transgender Bill has invited public suggestions with an aim to involve the community ...
Officers to undergo training on using social media
New Delhi, Sept 25 : The Delhi government, known for its social media presence with the most active face being Chief Minister ...
India could be late by 50 years in achieving education goals : Unesco report
Going by the current trend, India will be half a century late in achieving its global education commitments and the country ...
Dalits are right : P Chidambaram
On July 11, 2016, a video of cow vigilantes mercilessly beating up seven Dalit men for skinning a dead cow in Una district, Gujarat, ...
Hyderabad Muslim bodies to boycott lavish weddings, impose fine
Muslim organisations in Hyderabad have called for a boycott of ostentatious weddings in the community and even decided to ...
HC asks govts about steps to rehabilitate manual scavengers
New Delhi, Aug 10 : The Delhi High Court today asked the Centre and the Delhi government to inform it about the steps taken by ...
Irom Sharmila ends 16-year-long fast
After being on a hunger strike for 16 long years, Manipuri activist Irom Sharmila broke her fast on Tuesday and said that ...
’60 per cent teenage girls fall prey to cyber crime’
CHENNAI: Over 60 per cent of teenage girls are victims of cyber crime but the offenders mostly go scot free, Cyber Society ...
UN Plans To Declassify Transgenders From Its List Of Mental Illnesses
Hard to believe at first but the United Nations had actually included transgenders, India’s third gender, in ...
Mahasweta Devi, eminent writer and social activist, dies
The Jnanpith, Padma Vibhushan and Magsaysay awardee died on Thursday at a Kolkata hospital following prolonged illness.
She ...