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- India
Kanwar Yatra eateries row: SC to hear plea against UP govt order
New Delhi: The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Monday a plea against the Uttar Pradesh government’s order that eateries along the Kanwar Yatra route must display the names of their…
- India
Will destabilise institution of marriage: NGO opposes criminalisation of marital rape
New Delhi: An NGO has moved the Supreme Court opposing the criminalisation of marital rape, saying it would destabilise the institution of marriage. The petition filed by NGO Purush Aayog Trust through its…
- India
Over 40 killed in 2019 fire incident in Anaj Mandi factory, Delhi HC told
New Delhi: Over 40 people including several minors lost their lives in the December 2019 fire that broke out at a factory in Anaj Mandi here which was illegally storing and using…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad NGO launches campaign on COVID-19 vaccine ‘apartheid’
Hyderabad: City-based NGO Association for Economic Empowerment of the Marginalised (ASEEM) on Sunday organised a campaign against vaccine apartheid. The organisation also highlighted the issue of major pharma companies exercising monopolies over…
- World
Taliban ban women from working for domestic, foreign NGOs
Kabul: In the latest crackdown on women’s freedoms in Afghanistan, the Taliban regime has ordered all local and foreign non-governmental organisations (NGO) to stop female employees from coming to work in the…
- India
HC resrains NGO from making defamatory statements against EPS
Chennai: Arappor Iyakkam, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), was on Friday restrained from making defamatory statements against former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and AIADMK interim general secretary K Palaniswami in a matter relating…
- Delhi
Delhi HC asks Centre to sanction special educators’ posts in KVs
New Delhi: Delhi High Court on Thursday directed the Centre and Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) to sanction regular posts of special educators for special children in KVs within eight weeks. The order…
- Bangalore
BBMP withdraws permission given to NGO to conduct SVEEP
Hyderabad: Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) on Wednesday cancelled the permission given to an NGO, Chilume Educational Cultural and Rural Development Institute for conducting SVEEP (Systematic Voters Education and Electoral Participation). The…
- India
SC notice on plea against using public funds on govt advertisements
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to Centre and state governments on a plea by NGO Common Cause seeking direction to prohibit state governments from publishing advertisements outside the…
- India
Protests in TN’s Krishnagiri as eggs not provided to tribal school kids
Chennai: Children belonging to the tribal Irula community were not being provided with eggs during the midday meal at their school in a tribal settlement in Tamil Nadu’s Krishnagiri district, leading to…
- Bangalore
Karnataka NGO owner gets woman gang-raped, forces her into prostitution
Bengaluru: The Karnataka Police have arrested the owner of an NGO and her two associates on charges of forcing a 25-year-old woman into a flesh trade and getting her gang-raped, police said…
- Middle East
Israeli forces conduct raids at offices of NGOs in Palestine
Ramallah: Israeli forces on Thursday conducted raids at offices of various NGOs in Palestine’s Ramallah. After conducting a raid on the Al-Haq organization, an independent Palestinian human rights group based in Ramallah,…
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