India
WCD Ministry launches women safety initiatives
To promote safety of women in their living spaces, working spaces and the public spaces, the Ministry of Women and… Read More
No law to deal with refugees in India disturbs me: Ubais Sainulabdeen
Working for the rehabilitation of refugees since the last 31 years, Ubais Sainulabdeen, Independent Human Rights Activist and life member… Read More
Special Status to states: The game of revenues
Among many post-independence challenges, one of the serious issues is how to share revenues collected between the Union Government and… Read More
Parliamentary Budget Office: Why India needs one soon
Even as the Interim Budget was presented on February 1 and passed on the last day where the Centre called… Read More
Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Rights: An Insight on the Medico-Legal Status
Although India was amongst the first few countries to create legal and policy frameworks guaranteeing access to abortion and contraception,… Read More
Re-orient education system to make students think rationally: VP Naidu
The Vice President of India M. Venkaiah Naidu called for reorienting the education system to make students think rationally and… Read More
Chin Refugees to UNHCR: Don’t revoke refugee status, continue international protection
Demanding an extension of their refugee status and for a repeal of the decision of United Nations High Commissioner for… Read More
India, Afghanistan share immensely deep, rather romantic relationship: Hamid Karzai
“India is the most strategic of Afghanistan’s allies in terms of the bilateral relations between the two countries, in terms… Read More
Being a refugee is definitely the harshest experience: Ubais Sainulabdeen
For Ubais Sainulabdeen, a chance encounter with a group of people locked inside a fence stonewalled by CRPF guards, led… Read More
No Detention Policy remains a bone of contention
The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (Second Amendment) Bill, 2017 or the RTE (Second Amendment) Bill, 2017,… Read More