The Taliban arrested human rights defender and education rights campaigner Matiullah Wesafrom the Khoshhal-Khan area in Kabul on Monday. He has been campaigning nationally and internationally against the worsening circumstances for women and girls’ education in Afghanistan under the Taliban. The Taliban spokersperson has confirmed Matiullah Wesa’s arrest stating that this was due to his ‘illegal activities’.He is a prominent human rights defender, advocating for girls’ education rights for over 14 years, including prior to the Taliban takeover in August 2021. Matiullah Wesa is the head of PenPath, a local non-governmental organisation that champions education rights, especially girls’ education. He…
Author: Editor's Desk, Tattva News
It was in 1993 that India participated at the World Winter Games for the first time. 18 delegates represented India at the event held in Schladming, Austria with and returned with a Gold Medal. Since then, India has come a long way having participated in five more World Winter Games. For the first time ever, snow sports were introduced to the SO Bharat Athletes in 2007 against the breath-taking backdrop of Narkanda, Himachal Pradesh. The first ever National games in winter sports was held in this very state in 2008. SO Bharat opened a new chapter in its journey, introducing…
Karnataka will vote in single-phase polls on May 10. The votes will be counted on May 13, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar said on Wednesday. The state will have over 58,000 polling stations, for 5,21,73,579 registered electors in the state, Kumar said. For the first time, Karnataka Assembly Election will have home-voting facility for 80+ senior citizens, he added. Kumar added that the election commission will strengthen measures to curb “the use of money power” in elections. He announced the presence of 2,400 static surveillance teams to keep strict vigil. The state has already plunged into a poll fever. The…
The Foundation Day of the Indian Institute of public Administration (IIPA) was commemorated today with the 2nd Dr Rajendra Prasad Memorial Lecture delivered by the Vice President of India, Jagdeep Dhankhar and Special Address by the Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh, who is also the National Chairman of IIPA. While the Vice President Dhanker in his address emphasised the concept of “Constitutional Governance”, Dr Jitendra Singh called for a “Whole of Govt” approach. The Vice President said, Constitutional Governance is about achieving the dynamic equilibrium in the healthy interplay among the three organs of the state. He said, Governance is a…
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 unleashed numerous war crimes, generated a global energy and food crisis and sought to further disrupt a weak multilateral system. It also laid bare the hypocrisy of Western states that reacted forcefully to the Kremlin’s aggression but condoned or were complicit in grave violations committed elsewhere, Amnesty International said as it launched its annual assessment of human rights around the world. Amnesty International Report 2022/23: The State of the World’s Human Rights found that double standards and inadequate responses to human rights abuses taking place around the world fuelled impunity and instability, including…
In order to provide some more time to the taxpayers, the date for linking PAN and Aadhaar has been extended to 30th June, 2023, whereby persons can intimate their Aadhaar to the prescribed authority for Aadhaar-PAN linking without facing repercussions. Notification to this effect is being issued separately. Under the provisions of the Income-tax Act, 1961(the ‘Act’) every person who has been allotted a PAN as on 1st July, 2017 and is eligible to obtain Aadhaar Number, is required to intimate his Aadhaar to the prescribed authority on or before 31st March, 2023, on payment of a prescribed fee. Failure…
Preventive and Intelligence cell, Central Bureau of Narcotics (CBN), New Delhi achieved a major breakthrough in busting pan-Delhi level drug syndicate involved in supply of various types of narcotics, psychotropic and synthetic drugs for high profile parties. Acting upon the specific information, joint preventive team of Central Bureau of Narcotics (CBN) Delhi and Gwalior, on Monday, nabbed two foreign nationals supplying commercial quantities of synthetic drugs MDMA and cocaine concealed in their undergarments. They were asked about the premise from where they picked up these drugs. As a follow up action, search was carried out at three suspected addresses in…
The Supreme Court on Monday tagged with other pleas, the petition of BRS leader K Kavitha seeking protection from arrest and challenging the summons by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case arising out of the alleged Delhi excise policy scam. A bench of justices Ajay Rastogi and Bela M Trivedi said it will hear the petitions of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader and others after three weeks. Senior advocate Kapil Sibal informed the bench that a similar plea filed by Nalini Chidambaram, a senior advocate and wife of Congress leader P Chidambaram, is pending on a similar…
The Lok Sabha Housing Committee on Monday issued notice to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, directing him to vacate the government bungalow at 12, Tughlaq Lane in central Delhi by April 22. The notice was served two days after Gandhi was disqualified as a member of parliament after being convicted in a defamation case. Gandhi was disqualified from the Lok Sabha on Friday, a day after a court in Gujarat’s Surat convicted him in a 2019 defamation case over his alleged remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The court awarded the Congress leader two years imprisonment. The disqualification will prevent Gandhi,…
A new poll by an Australian migrants rights NGO has revealed that a substantial number of migrants find themselves in precarious work situations due to discrimination by businesses. Despite being authorized to work in Australia, even highly qualified migrants are turned down for jobs and forced instead to take up employment where they may be in harm’s way – either dangerous work or employers. Many are unpaid and exploited by employers who know that they cannot land better jobs elsewhere. The Guardian reports: “The Migrant Workers Centre surveyed more than 1,000 workers in Australia about their experiences in the job…