The outcome of the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference – COP27 – starting this weekend in Egypt, is critical for people’s effective enjoyment of human rights around the world, not just in years to come but now, said UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk. In a open letter he called for human rights to be at the heart of efforts to tackle climate change. “People are losing their homes, their livelihoods, and their lives. Given the current trajectory of temperature increases, many parts of the world will be uninhabitable within our children’s lifetimes, with unimaginable consequences”, he added.…
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The Supreme Court has upheld the 103rd Constitutional Amendment that introduced a 10% reservation for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) in education and public employment. Three out of the five-judge bench, led by CJI U U Lalit, upheld the amendment, stating that its provisions do not violate the constitution. While justices Dinesh Maheshwari, Bela Trivedi and B. Pardiwala upheld the amendment, CJI Lalit and Justice Ravindra Bhat dissented and wanted the constitutional amendment on the EWS quota struck down. As per the majority view of Justices Maheshwari, Trivedi and Pardiwala, reservation structured singularly on economic criteria does not violate the basic…
With 117 crore telecom users and 825 million broadband subscribers, India is currently the second-largest telecom market in the world, according to Dr. P. D. Vaghela, Chairperson of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) organised a workshop on “Vision for Socio-Economic Transformation in NE States – Role of 5G Technologies and Digital Infrastructure” in Guwahati to help people better understand and address the problems and obstacles associated with bringing transformational technology to all of the Northeastern Region’s states. According to Dr. Vaghela, 5G technology will help India realise its aim of empowering its…
Fifty United Nations members have urged China to “uphold its international human rights obligations”. The joint statement responds to a U.N. report that documents systematic abuse of Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. A joint statement, read by Canada during a U.N. debate, spoke of international concern over China’s refusal to discuss its treatment of Uyghurs. The statement emphasized that the report from the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) had made “an important contribution to the existing evidence of serious and systematic human rights violations in China.” The countries stressed…
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has pulled out a stellar performance by winning four of the seven seats in the assembly byelections, the results of which were announced on Sunday. The saffron party won the politically crucial seats of Haryana’s Adampur, Uttar Pradesh’s Gola Gokarannath, Bihar’s Gopalganj and Odisha’s Dhamnagar and put up a tough fight against the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) in Munugode. The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) won the Mokama seat in Bihar while the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Thackeray) retained the Andheri East seat. The BJP retained the Gola Gokarannath assembly seat in Uttar Pradesh, with its candidate…
Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal graced the the Ahimsa Vishwa Bharti National Conference as Chief Guest in Mumbai. He highlighted India’s mission to become a Vishwaguru at the event. Also present at the event were Governor of Maharashtra, Bhagat Singh Koshyari, Acharya Dr.Lokesh Muni and other dignitaries from Ahimsa Vishwa Bharti. Speaking on the country’s mission to become Vishwaguru, Piyush Goyal cited the unprecedented success of programmes like Har Ghar Tiranga, where it was near impossible to find even a single home that did not have the national flag hoisted in it. Calling India a bright spot in an otherwise world…
Responses to climate change must also consider its link to both conflict and the displacement it causes, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, said in a briefing to the Security Council. He expressed hope that these dimensions “will be in clearer focus” at the COP27 UN climate change conference, opening this weekend in Egypt, and at its successor conference in a year’s time. The climate emergency is ravaging resources and creating tensions, including between communities, particularly in already fragile contexts where authorities do not have the means to support adaptation and resilience. “I fear that without more attention…
A total lunar eclipse will occur on November 8 (17 Kartika, 1944 Saka Era). The eclipse is visible from all places of India at the time of Moonrise. However, the beginning of the partial and total phases of the eclipse is not visible from any places of India as the phenomena will be in progress before Moonrise. Ending of both the total and the partial phases is visible from the eastern parts of the country. Only the ending of the partial phase is visible from the rest parts of the country. This eclipse will be visible in the region covering…
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) is worried by the results of a new study by the Platform for Investigative Journalism and Analysis (PINA). The results reveal an important issue when it comes to the protection and prosecution of online harassment against women journalists in North Macedonia. In collaboration with its affiliates, the Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM-ZNM) and the Trade Union of Macedonian Journalists and Media Workers (SSNM), the EFJ called for the adoption of the long-awaited amendments to the Criminal Code in North Macedonia to deal with all types of attacks against journalists ex officio. According to the…
By Ch. Narendra The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP 27, beginning at Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt on November 6 that continues till November 18 is likely to face a greater challenge in ensuring a collective climate goals agenda, in view of prevailing global conflicts. The main aim of the conference is to spur action towards achieving the world’s collective climate goals as agreed under the Paris Agreement. In the background of the changes in global climate system and the increasingly dire warnings about the future, the task facing delegates at COP 27 has never been greater.…