'Laws have been used in a way to serve the needs of the current regime and its authoritarian ideology.'
NGOs working for the rights of the survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster on Wednesday alleged that various governments in Madhya Pradesh and at the Centre have failed to bring the culprits of the world's biggest industrial tragedy to justice even after 37 years.
Two non-government organisations run by social activist Teesta Setalvad and her husband have been served notice by the home ministry for alleged violations of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act and asked to reply within 15 days.
Mango is a UK-registered charity and the partnership is across Barclays GRCB's emerging market entities.
The Union Home Ministry has referred two cases of Tamil Nadu-based Non-Governmental organisations for investigations for FCRA violations. The two NGO's have been organising demonstrations against setting up the Koodankulam nuclear power plant in the state.
After an all-party meeting in New Delhi, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi also said that some of these 32 bills have already been discussed by standing committees of Parliament.
It is a difficult problem and will require the Union, state governments and civil society, meaning NGOs, to work together, points out Aakar Patel.
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There are 78 such people in the village, of which 41 are women and 30 children aged three to 15 years.
A group of retired army officers have come together to provide a home for girls who never had a home before.
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The court also raised questions on the petitioner, saying that granting all the prayers sought in the petition would be like an "invitation to people not to work".
In a letter to all chief secretaries, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said it is imperative to re-emphasise the significance of timely and swift upgradation of health infrastructure in all states and UTs.
The total vaccinations across the country rose to over 15.66 crore.
Incessant showers lashed Mumbai and its neighbouring areas on Wednesday morning, leading to flooding in many low-lying areas and traffic snarls on roads.
"We urge the High Commissioner to go to Oslo, attend the award ceremony, and convene a press conference that will spotlight the plight of the 1.3 billion Chinese citizens who are systematically denied the basic guarantees of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights," they said in a statement.
Human rights activists in Pakistan, and particularly in Lahore, are demanding action against jail authorities for the merciless thrashing and subsequent death in hospital of an Indian national.
Dominic Xavier mulls over the intriguing puzzle why the PM-CARES fund is opposed to the transparency guaranteed by the RTI.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday called for the setting up of a high-power police technology mission under the leadership of the Union home minister to adopt future technologies for grassroot policing requirements.
Hoping that the 14th Prime Minister will provide clean and exemplary governance, the National Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms wrote to the Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi, requesting him not to induct those who had criminal cases registered against them into Parliament and his Cabinet.
Not satisfied with the Centre's relief package, seven organisations championing the cause of Bhopal gas victims on Friday criticised the government for not considering their objections to some of the recommendations by the Group of Ministers looking into the issue.
Terming the Group of Ministers' relief package to the Bhopal gas tragedy victims as a 'betrayal', some non-governmental organisations working for the disaster-affected on Wednesday said they will hold a protest in New Delhi on Thursday."The relief package has betrayed the victims of Bhopal gas tragedy and we are going to stage a protest tomorrow in New Delhi," Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sangathan convenor Abdul Jabbar said. The Rs 1,500-crore package is 'too little'.
With child labour all set to be banned from Tuesday, social activists fear that the law, though well-meaning, could result in under-age workers getting pushed into hidden and more dangerous jobs.
Former skipper Sourav Ganguly described India as favourites to lift the World Cup, saying the team is in best possible shape to win the quadrennial event which gets underway at England on May 30.
She called for converting the "bigde Nawab energy into Sudhre Nawab" and said questions should be asked to "bigde Nawab's "boss or super boss".
"This is extremely dangerous and irresponsible in a country where journalists and activists have often been threatened and killed," he said. Human Rights Watch said on March 4, the directors of Sri Lankan organisations, the Centre for Policy Alternatives and Transparency International Sri Lanka, wrote a joint letter to President Mahinda Rajapaksa expressing their concern about a press report of the government's apparent surveillance list.
Indian Non-Governmental Organisations are very dissatisfied with the weak response of Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan to the Rio+20 declaration issued on the eve of the summit, reports Darryl D'Monte.
After over a year, the Singhu border, which was the epicentre of the farmers' agitation, now bears a deserted look with the last batch of demonstrators leaving for their home states on Monday.
Every time we look at the Congress, its future, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, we find the situation more hopeless than even a few months earlier, observes Shekhar Gupta.
Punjab Kings batsman Nicholas Pooran will donate a portion of his IPL salary to help the Indian people as the country battles a severe second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The petitioners also sought action against beneficiaries of the alleged commission of Rs 640 crore in the deal.
'The cases have not reduced because the prosecution has found some other way to stop people from using their right to free speech.'
The Delhi high court on Monday granted two weeks to the Centre to state its stand on petitions seeking criminalisation of marital rape following Solicitor General Tushar Mehta's submission that the government is neither in favour nor against striking down the immunity granted to husbands under the Indian Penal Code.
At 8 million a month, times two doses, it will take us 17 years to administer the vaccine to our 800 million adults. The rollout must speed up twenty times, asserts Naushad Forbes.
The NGO is said to be shutting down its India operations after allegations that the charity was engaging in religious conversion.
Last week, two BSF troopers from Rajasthan, members of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Congo, were killed by protestors. Do we need to lose lives fighting in a country not ours, in a war that is not ours and for a cause that is not ours, asks Air Commodore Nitin Sathe (retd), who served in the UNPKF in Congo.
Two Indian non-government organisations are among 22 institutions to be awarded $615,000 each by the California-based Skoll Foundation for using "innovative approach" in addressing social issues.\n\n
Modi noted that Brazil too has a population comparable to Uttar Pradesh but it witnessed thousands of deaths due to the virus. In Uttar Pradesh, the deaths due to COVID-19 are reported to be nearly 800, he pointed out.
A new Congress leader may make an electoral impact by his very presence. Congress voters who had moved away from the party, after being influenced by the BJP's 'family rule' campaign, can now return with a certain moral satisfaction, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
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