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Amid speculation that Tamil Nadu BJP Legislature Party Leader Nainar Nagendran may be appointed as the next state president, a notification issued by the Tamil Nadu BJP regarding the election for the post has added a fresh twist to the ongoing developments. According to the notification the willing aspirant should…

While fires at Delhi’s trash towers have often grabbed headlines, in national and international outlets, open burning of waste in dumpsters, parks, or on the roadside doesn’t draw the same kind of attention. Experts have, however, warned that such fires contribute significantly to the rise in particulate concentration, making air…

चाहे अंतरराष्ट्रीय मानवाधिकार की बात करें, यूएन कन्वेंशन्स की या फिर भारत के अपने संविधान की, शिक्षा प्रत्येक बच्चे का मूलभूत अधिकार है. लेकिन इसके बावजूद दिल्ली मे रोहिंग्या शरणार्थियों के बच्चों को करीब पांच साल तक शिक्षा से वंचित रखा गया. इन बच्चों के परिजन बार-बार स्कूल का दरवाजा…

Whether it is international human rights law or the Indian Constitution, education is a fundamental right of each child in India. But for five years, Rohingya refugee children were deprived of this in Delhi, despite multiple reach-outs to schools. All of this changed last Friday with a Supreme Court intervention,…

We are in Barnabas Manju’s office, a one-bedroom house in a government quarters in Campbell Bay. He is the chairman of the Tribal Council of Great Nicobar and Little Nicobar. A long-pending demand of the Tribal Council is for a formal office with work equipment. “There is nothing here. No…

Over a month after journalist Raghvendra Bajpai’s murder in Sitapur, police have told the media that he was killed by contract killers hired by the aide of a temple priest. Bajpai had threatened to expose the aide for sexually assaulting a minor on the temple’s premises, police said.

Days after he allegedly led the vandalism that triggered the shutting down of Mumbai’s Habitat Club, Shiv Sena leader Rahool Kanal’s name is back on the front page. This time, it’s not for breaking furniture but for distributing food to dogs “all over Mumbai” and ration kits to hospitals, old…