The academics called on the Indian government to restore assured central funding, ensure timely wage payments and reaffirm the law’s original guarantee of the right to work A group of prominent international scholars, economists and policymakers has written an open letter to the Indian government urging it to halt any move to repeal or dilute the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural...
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Kashmir police seize The Wire journalist’s phone amid his corruption reporting on hydropower project
Police in Budgam district of Jammu and Kashmir seized the mobile phone of senior journalist Jehangir Ali from his home in Chrar-i-Sharief on Wednesday evening, The Wire, for which he reports from the region, said in a statement on Thursday. According to news outlet, police officers arrived at Ali’s residence on December 17 and took his phone without informing him...

Schools under Centre’s mid-day meal scheme drop by over 84,000 in five years
The scheme, a flagship welfare programme of the Central government, provides cooked meals to children enrolled in government and government-aided schools. The number of schools covered under India’s central mid-day meal programme has fallen by more than 84,000 over the past five years, government data presented to Parliament showed on Wednesday. Coverage under the Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman scheme...
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UAE President Sheikh Khalifa-bin-Zayed Al-Nahyan dies: State Media
The United Arab Emirates’ President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan died aged 73 on Friday, state media said, after battling illness for several years. “The Ministry of Presidential Affairs condoles the people of the UAE and the Islamic world… on the passing of Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan on Friday, May 13,” the official WAM news agency said. The ministry...

Popular Front welcomes SC decision to put Sedition Law on hold
Popular Front of India Chairman O M A Salam has welcomed the interim order by the Supreme Court preventing the lodging of further FIRs under Sedition Law. Section 124-A of the Indian Penal Code or Sedition Law is a colonial-era relic that has been widely misused by various governments in independent India to deal with political opponents. After it became...

Brutal Killing, De-humanizing of IDPs in Assam: A Gross Violation of Human Rights and Land Policy
By M. Burhanuddin Qasmi Assam, the northeastern state of India with one-third Muslims in the state population, has nearly 3.62 lakh landless families in 31 of its 33 districts. They are Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in their own land. This has been mainly because of land erosion and devastation caused by the mighty Brahmaputra river. These IDPs are indigenous people...
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‘Tripura riots were consciously planned, intentionally executed’
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How Jaipur Center of Culture and Arts is redefining Rajasthan’s art landscape
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SC sets aside the absurd Judgment of Kerala HC, Hadiya is free to be with husband again
The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed Muslim convert Hadiya to live with her husband Shefin Jahan, setting aside a Kerala High Court...

18 economic agreements signed between Saudi Arabian and British entities
LONDON Millat Times 18 economic agreements worth at least SR8 billion (approximately £1.5 billion) were signed between Saudi Arabian and British...
Turkey, Iraq to carry out joint operation against Kurdish militants in Iraq
ANKARA: Turkey and Iraq’s central government in Baghdad will carry out a joint operation against Kurdish militants in northern Iraq,...

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