What Do People Do? World Mental Health Day is observed in more than 100 countries on October 10 through local, regional and national World Mental... Read More
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Task force to improve India’s rights record
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The government is forming a task force to prepare a National Action Plan on Human Rights (NAPHR) as mandated under the UN Human Rights Council’s... Read More
Around 275 adopted children were “returned” to the system over the past two years in India. What went wrong? Data indicates that gaps in pre-... Read More
Items that have been banned Single-use plastic cutlery (plates, cups, glasses, bowls, forks, knives, spoons, stirrer and straws) Thermocol/styrofoam cutlery (plates, cups, glasses and bowls,... Read More
Amazon India on Thursday announced its partnership with a non-governmental organisation (NGO) – Sol’s ARC – to launch an industry first pilot programme to train... Read More
In the last few months, a lot has happened since the Tamil Nadu government suggested that linking social media and Aadhaar could minimise cybercrime. The matter was being... Read More
For NGOs to receive foreign funds, all their employees and officials have to declare to the government that they were not prosecuted or convicted for... Read More
The government will soon make it mandatory for mobile phone-makers that manufacture minimum five models to produce at least one handset which addresses needs of... Read More
Government-sponsored incubators have been made eligible for India Inc’s corporate social responsibility spending, in a major boost to startups. Finance and corporate affairs minister Nirmala... Read More
The Government on Thursday issued an ordinance to ban e-cigarettes, making the production, import, export, transport, sale or advertisements of such “alternative” smoking devices a... Read More
