Five army women officers to be Colonels
Five women officers of the Indian Army have been selected for promotion as Colonel. The clearance of the promotion of the five women officers was given by an Army Selection Board.
NAPM plans year-long campaign to strength democracy
COVID 19 pandemic has reversed/halted decades of progress: UN SDG Report 2021
The COVID 19 pandemic has halted or reversed years, or even decades, of progress, according to The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2021, prepared by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. The report has been prepared in collaboration with more than 50 international agencies.
‘Government has no moral right to announce
Muslim Women’s Rights Day’
The Union government’s decision of declaring August 1 as Muslim Women’s Rights Day had come in for flak from a large of women’s rights activists, social activists and human rights activists.
From abject poverty to study in US, flight of 3 Telangana girls
Three girls from economically backward class belonging to Telangana will now get to study in the United States of America.
We are being harassed by police, says girl who married a lower caste boy
An upper caste resident of Bakewar, Etawah in Uttar Pradesh has tweeted that she is being harassed by the police has she has married a boy of a lower caste, who is a resident of Auraiya District.
NHRC’s ASHA to workers
No ASHA in villages today
Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) workers struck work today to demand the promised compensation, salaries and protective gear amid the second wave of COVID-19 in India. Rural India remains under-resourced amid the rising cases of COVID and the front-line workers have not been supported enough by the government, are under-paid, they allege.
Science-based leadership and policy needed: Soumya Swaminathan
National leadership and policy, should be science-based, World Health Organisation (WHO) Chief Scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan said on Saturday.
Position of Mars influenced India’s Mars Orbiter Mission