International Literacy Day 2025: The history and significance of a day that reshaped global educationInternational Literacy Day 2025 emphasizes literacy as vital for dignity and opportunity, highlighting progress since its 1966 inception. W...
08 Sep, 2025, 09.56 AM IST
Biden, Trump send different Christmas messagesOn Christmas, President-elect Joe Biden urged Americans to reflect, unite, and treat each other with dignity, while President Donald Trump ...
26 Dec, 2024, 06.55 AM IST
Lok Sabha polls: Dalit bastis of western UP want basic necessities, dignityIn Hathras's Pilakhana, the air is heavy with the stench of stagnant water that surrounds modest homes, many of which are precariously perc...
03 May, 2024, 10.04 AM IST
40% land claims by tribals rejected by state govtsApproximately 40% of land claims filed by tribals under the Forest Rights Act have been rejected by states in India. Uttarakhand has the hi...
27 Sep, 2023, 11.50 PM IST
Shia leader proposes signature campaign across J&K and Ladakh against abrogation of Article 370Shia leader and former National Conference minister Ruhullah Mehdi has suggested a signature campaign on abrogation of Article 370, to be c...
21 Apr, 2023, 07.12 AM IST
Work on UID cards for disabled persons to begin in 2016The minister said UID Card project will not only help know the exact count of physically challenged population, but will also enable them a...
24 Sep, 2015, 03.55 PM IST
Bollywood hails Aam Aadmi Party's landslide win in Delhi"Finally!!! Am where the action is. Proud!!!," he posted. "AAP wins one of the biggest electoral victories in Indian history," tweeted dire...
10 Feb, 2015, 10.02 PM IST
Delhi poll results 2015: Bollywood celebrates Arvind Kejriwal's winMusic composer Vishal Dadlani, a supporter of AAP, who left for Delhi to celebrate the party's win, said he would thank everyone for suppor...
10 Feb, 2015, 02.48 PM IST
PDP hits out at PM Narendra Modi for trumpeting package to Jammu and Kashmir flood victimsModi, who addressed his maiden election rally here today, said he announced an assistance of Rs 1,000 crore for the state as soon as floods...
08 Dec, 2014, 07.58 PM IST
Will fight for Jammu region's honour, dignity: Congress leader Sham Lal SharmaSham Lal Sharma promised to carve out 'Bhardal Khurd-Sungal Sumah' as a Satellite Town if Congress forms the next government in J&K.
04 Dec, 2014, 05.23 PM IST
How Langate's Engineer Rashid battled counter-insurgency to reduce police intervention in peoples' lives“One had to restore the dignity of people, decimated by two decades of ruthless counter-insurgency, and then bridge the work deficit", he s...
29 Nov, 2014, 04.00 AM IST
Streamlining forest clearances won’t make vetting of mining proposals laxThe government has sought to streamline forest clearances by introducing online filing, which allows real-time monitoring of applications f...
08 Oct, 2014, 05.21 AM IST
- Over 130 districts facing land conflicts
Land conflicts are no more limited to forest areas, neither are they confined to mining and infrastructure projects.
25 Dec, 2012, 06.43 PM IST
- Activists from 10 states demand proper implementation of the Forest Rights Act at Jantar Mantar
The group of activists and villagers under the aeigs of 'Campaign for Survival and Dignity' assembled at Jantar Mantar and shouted slogans.
20 May, 2011, 02.56 PM IST
- Green lobby welcomes rejection of envt clearance to Vedanta
The government's decision to reject Vedanta's proposed USD 1.7 billion bauxite mining project in Orissa has been hailed by green lobby term...
25 Aug, 2010, 06.01 PM IST
- None to protect tribal rights in panel on forest resources
Ministries of environment and forests and tribal affairs have jointly set up a 10-member committee to study and assess the impact of Forest...
12 Feb, 2010, 04.24 AM IST
- RTI battle over, activists train their guns on Tribal Bill now
Even as the fate of the Scheduled Tribes (Recognition of Forest Rights) Bill, 2005, known as the Tribal Bill, remains uncertain for want of...
21 Aug, 2006, 02.39 AM IST