The ministry of home affairs has recommended a Central Bureau of Investigation inquiry against Aman Biradari, an NGO established by writer and human rights activist Harsh Mander, for alleged......
Publicity campaign vehicles in Baramati showcased pictures of Nationalist Congress Party Chief Ajit Pawar and his wife Sunetra, even as speculation continued on her being the candidate of the NCP......
The Uttarakhand high court will on Thursday hear a plea to prevent Hindu outfits from holding a mahapanchayat against "love jihad" in Purola town, where the local administration has imposed......
'You can't go on creating division and rhetoric of hate.''It comes to roost. We are seeing the first glimpses of that in the state elections.' Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com "We need a......
image: A protest against the Modi government's curtailment of human rights in New Delhi 'Human rights violations are there in rural areas and in cities. In rural areas it is crude and in the open.......
Indians all over the US are going beyond being human and are learning to be humanitarian and expand their philanthropy activities finds Ajailiu Niumai. 'The raising of extraordinarily large sums of......
A leading global charity has frozen $4 million in funding to India, squeezing aid to the poor, after a clampdown by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on donors deemed to be meddling in domestic politics......
On the one had are sanitation oriented social enterprises and on the other are awareness raising campaigns by government, writes Rajni Bakshi. A law that bans toilets where human excreta has......
Given the scale of India’s energy needs the numbers of ‘Solar Mamas’, as they have been called in a documentary film, may not seem very promising, rues Rajni Bakshi Bunker Roy,......
'Stray dogs are a part of our urban ecosystem. When sterilised and vaccinated, they are not a threat -- they are community members who deserve dignity. ' IMAGE: A stray dog in an animal ambulance......
Photograph: Kind courtesy BCCI/IPL In response to the terrifying surge of COVID-19 cases in the country, Indian Premier League teams have joined the effort to fight the crisis by announcing......