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Amnesty International has been forced to halt its work in India and lay off staff after the government froze its bank accounts across the country.The Indian enforcement directorate, an agency that investigates economic crimes, froze the accounts of Amnesty’s Indian arm this month after the group published two reports ...

Rights body says it shut its operations due to a continuing gov’t crackdown over the last two years and freeze of its bank accounts.Amnesty International says it is halting work in India due to an “incessant witch hunt” by India’s Hindu nationalist government. The rights group said the bank ...

Human rights organisation Amnesty International India on Tuesday announced that it has been “compelled to let go off staff in India” and halt all its work as all its bank accounts have been frozen. In a statement, the organisation called the government’s move to freeze its bank accounts a ...

PMGSY was launched to provide connectivity by way of an "all weather road" (Representational)Jammu: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has pulled up the Jammu and Kashmir government for its failure to complete various projects under the National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP) and the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak ...

The Centre has started work on the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) which aims to provide water supply to every household in Jammu and Kashmir by December 2021. The Public Health Engineering department in the union territory is working round the clock to make the scheme ...

For the past 58 years, the Chinese propaganda machine, or psychological warfare machine, has used the 1962 border conflict to put the Indian Army on the defensive and convey to nation at large that the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is vastly superior to its Indian counterpart on the battlefield.It ...

Jammu: Authorities in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir have constituted various teams of officers to remove all bottlenecks hindering the progress of four-laning construction work on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway, officials said on Saturday.   The widening work on the 270-km highway, the only all-weather road linking Kashmir ...

Over more than a decade as a teacher, Jay Williams has always approached his work through an anti-Black racism lens and strived to be culturally responsive with what he brings to the classroom. But he also admits it took time just getting comfortable at school. "Early on in my ...

LG gauges IB situation; Inspects AIIMS work Kathua | Sep 9: Amid spike in ceasefire violations along the 744km-long Line of Control (LoC) and terror activities in Jammu and Kashmir, lieutenant governor (L-G) Manoj Sinha visited the forward defence posts of the Border Security Force (BSF) in Hiranagar sector ...

MOSCOW, September 9. /TASS/. Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Vladimir Norov highly assessed the role of Russian news agency TASS in covering the organization’s activity and promoting its positive image. "I would like to first of all note that we highly assess the established level of cooperation ...