When conscientious and well-meaning citizens are attacked for “acting rightly”, is the government “acting rightly” by not doing enough to safeguard them? Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Credit: PTI Yet another
Sunita Narain is country’s foremost environmentalist. She raises issues which directly affects people. She is the Director-General of Centre for Science and Environment (CSE). To work for environmental causes in
AHMEDABAD: The answer of the State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) to an RTI (Right to Information) query has revealed a shocker: Gujarat recorded 55 custodial deaths in 2017. Ahmedabad city topped the chart with 15
New Delhi: The armed forces are “proportionately” retaliating to Pakistani actions along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir and effectively containing cross border infiltration, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman
Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir – Hundreds of residents have fled their homes along the border following an escalation of cross-border attacks between India and Pakistan. Nasir Ahmad Naqash, deputy commissioner of northern Baramulla district, told
THE almost daily exchange of fire across the Line of Control between India and Pakistan, in the Kashmir and Punjab sectors, with growing losses of life and property on both
Book: The last battle of Saraighat: The story of the BJP’s rise in the North-east Authors: Rajat Sethi & Shubhrastha Publisher: Penguin Viking Price: Rs. 599 Pages: 182 Election campaigns are in full swing in
Thanks to depleted stocks, getting arrested for fishing in Pakistani waters is a risk many Indian fishermen take. A boat sails off from Porbandar coast. This is not the ‘fishing
Sitting on a mud-plastered floor in front of their house in this border village in Kutch district, Kamabai Sama Karima, 49, and her daughter Raziyabai, 20, are stitching a quilt
Separatist leader and pro-independence, Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman, Muhammad Yasin Malik today wrote a letter to Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj stating that her emotional speech in the Parliament
