Security forces have recovered 70 hand grenades during search operations in a Bihar district, police said Tuesday. In Munger, police recovered 70 hand grenades near Paisra during search operations against Maoists, a district police official said. Explosives were also recovered from Jamui district. Jitendra Rana, superintendent of police, Jamui district said that during a search […]
lThe Kerala assembly Tuesday saw a verbal spat between Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and the opposition over the 22-year-old palmoil case. Speaker G. Karthikeyan, before allowing the Left opposition permission to raise the palmoil case, pointed out this has been raised on numerous occasions and it is not proper to raise an issue that is […]
A rolling stone gathers no moss. So goes the old adage. But the human resource managers can’t agree more even today, a study suggests. According to the research by Robert Half, a premier US-based staffing agency, employers tend to term the employees “job hoppers” if they have changed five or more jobs in 10 years […]
Commending Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his team’s efforts, around 80-100 people have queued up at the protest site to support the agitation. Standing undeterred under the rain on a chilly winter morning, many supporters were waiting to “congratulate” the activist-turned-politician who took office Dec 28. “I am here to congratulate Kejriwal. He is […]
The Delhi Police Tuesday tried to persuade Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal twice to change his protest venue. However, he refused to budge, officials said. “We have spoken to Kejriwal twice, and tried to persuade him to shift the protest base to Jantar Mantar as, like here, Section 144 is not implemented in that area,” Deputy […]
Afghanistan’s human rights situation regressed in key areas in 2013, increasing uncertainty about the country’s future, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday in its World Report 2014. Government policies on human rights were negatively affected by the end-2014 deadline for the withdrawal of international combat forces and the negotiations over US troop presence after 2014. Human […]
Bangladesh tumbled backward on human rights in 2013 as the government engaged in a harsh crackdown on members of civil society, the media and political opposition, Human Rights Watch said in its World Report 2014 released Tuesday. The authorities often employed violent and illegal measures against protesters, and failed to initiate any investigations into credible […]
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is being escapist and resorting to anarchy, said Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari Tuesday. “They made promises to the people and now when it comes to walking the talk they are being escapist and trying every gimmick to wriggle out of the situation that they themselves have got into,” […]
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Tuesday said his protest was indefinite and threatened to fill the street with lakhs of people, if the government does not concede his demands. “I said 10 days, but it was a way of saying that the protest is indefinite. If the central government does not agree to our demands […]
Sri Lanka made little progress in 2013 in accountability for serious human rights abuses committed during the civil war that ended in 2009, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. As the UN and international condemnation escalated, human rights activists and journalists critical of the government continued to face intimidation and threats, it said in its World […]