Human Rights

After Khashoggi murder, Saudi Arabia tortured and killed another journalist - Report

Dissident journalist Al-Jasser was arrested in March in Dubai, after MBS aide Saud Al-Qahtani's cyber army agents found purported evidence against him.

Nov 8, 2018

Edward Snowden speaks via video link during a news conference

Israeli spyware used to track and kill Saudi journalist Khashoggi: Edward Snowden

Snowden says NSO is selling a digital burglary tool that's causing harm to journalists and rights activists around the world.

Nov 7, 2018

SC extends deadline for Assam NRC list inclusion; allows submission of 5 documents as proof

The bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi has extended the date till December 15 for claimants to file documents that could be used for their inclusion and exclusion in the list.

Nov 1, 2018

Govt sets up GoM to look into sexual harassment at workplace

The Group of Ministers (GoM) members are Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi.

Oct 24, 2018

Jamal Khashoggi: Saudi hit squad member dies in mysterious Riyadh car crash, says Turkish paper

Albostani was one of the 15 Saudi operatives who landed in Istanbul on October 2, the day when Khashoggi disappeared, according to the Washington Post. The kill squad had arrived in Istanbul with the premeditated intention to kill Khashoggi, Turkish sources have said.

Oct 19, 2018

Sabarimala LIVE: Protests intensify as women wait to enter temple; section 144 imposed

It's the second day since the gates were opened to devotees. However, the protests have intensified and section 144 has been imposed in the region.

Oct 18, 2018

Mircosoft, Paul Allen, co-founder, death

Paul Allen passes away: Tech titans remember Microsoft co-founder and great philanthropist

Microsoft co-founder Paul Gardner Allen, who had been long suffering from non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma died in Seattle on October 15, 2018. Here's what Bill Gates, Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai, Jeff Bezos and other tech titans had to say about the great philanthropist.

Oct 16, 2018

Muslims pray at a mosque in Xinjiang region

China against Muslims: Xinjiang authorities roll out anti-halal campaign

As many as 13 million Muslims living in the region are increasingly subjected to mass arbitrary detention, torture and mistreatment by the Chinese government, rights organisations have said.

Oct 10, 2018

Future of Julian Assange: John Pilger mounts attack on Britain's Guardian

Pilger, whose legendary war reportage in the 60s got him Britain's Journalist of the Year award twice, said Assange was targeted as he refused to be a 'member of the club'.

Oct 4, 2018

India to send seven Rohingya refugees back to Myanmar on Thursday

The government officials have declined to comment if these seven are Rohingya Muslims and is calling them 'Myanmarese nationals'.

Oct 4, 2018

Execution of Kurdish child bride in Iran imminent, Amnesty International warns

According to Amnesty, almost 90 percent of world's executions take place in just five countries: China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Pakistan.

Oct 2, 2018

Poverty rate in India reduced by half over past 10 years, new UNDP study says

Among South Asian countries, only Maldives has a lower headcount ratio than India at 1.9 per cent, with Nepal (35.3), Bangladesh (41.1), and Pakistan (43.9) having higher incidences of multidimensional poverty.

Sep 21, 2018

Child mortality rate steadily decreasing in India, UN study finds

However, as per the report released by Unicef, the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Population Division and the World Bank Group, an estimated 6.3 million children under 15 years of age died in 2017 and the vast majority of these deaths -- 5.4 million -- occurred in the first five years of life, with newborns accounting for around half of the deaths.

Sep 18, 2018

ISRO espionage case: SC grants Rs 50 lakh in damages to acquitted scientist Nambi Narayanan

Nambi Narayanan was falsely implicated in an espionage case for selling confidential ISRO data to Maldivian intelligence officers in 1994. There were claims that Narayanan along with another ISRO scientist sold the data for millions.

Sep 14, 2018

Mother, son die in UP due to severe malnutrition; govt records their deaths as diarrhoea

Sangeeta and her eight-year-old son Suraj were rushed to the hospital when they started vomiting. When their condition became worse a few hours later, they were rushed to a hospital.

Sep 13, 2018

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