IRONY OF RTE ACT, 2009 – CHILDREN PICKING RAGS IN DELHI HIGH COURT PREMISES Suraj (9 yrs) and Kapil (7 yrs) have never attended school and instead picking rags are seen here carrying empty Whisky bottle in Delhi High Court premises on September 02, 2010. The Rag-picking is prohibited under the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 w.e.f. May [...]
Srinagar, August 27, 2010: APHC(G) Chairman, Syed Ali Gilani has said that holding talks with India will be a futile exercise until it accepts the disputed nature of Jammu and Kashmir, starts demilitarisation, revokes black laws and releases all Kashmiri political prisoners without any condition.
India has decided to suspend defence exchanges with China following Beijing’s refusal to allow the Army’s Northern Command chief Lt. Gen. B.S. Jaswal to join a military delegation for a high-level visit.
People stand under damaged houses after flash floods in Leh, 443 km (275 miles) east of Srinagar August 6, 2010.
India – Overnight flash floods killed at least 113 people around the main town of India’s Himalayan region of Ladakh, officials said on Friday, and soldiers have been dispatched for rescue operations.
A section of the media doubtless fed by official sources is at pains to determine the mastermind in the Kashmir Valley who is currently instigating the youth to risk lives in order to pelt stones. Discovering the instigators is a job for the police. It is their problem. To imagine that unearthing the mastermind will solve India’s Kashmir problem is [...]
Why is there so much opposition and anxiety among some sections of the Indian elite – particularly among its upper-caste intellectual class – on the question of enumeration of caste in the Census of India 2011?
MOSCOW – Russia and India stressed their strategic partnership on Monday, agreeing to boost military ties and cooperate in the civilian use of nuclear technology, but gave few details.
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