In what is believed to be the first time ever, according to ABC news, a foreign court has heard legal arguments from Uyghurs regarding forced labor in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. The case is being brought against the U.K. home secretary, HM Revenue and Customs and the National Crime Agency (NCA) by the World Uyghur Congress and the Global Legal Action Network. They claim a failure or refusal to investigate imports from the Uyghur Region is unlawful. Their legal team stated on Tuesday that there were reasonable grounds to suspect breaches of U.K. criminal and civil law…
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This Diwali was different for many cities in India. The usual noise of crackers heard around Diwali was replaced by ‘Humein Garv Hai’ song and chants of Hara Geela Sookha Neela on roads and in community lanes as mobile vans and carts with two bins went door-to door collecting segregated waste. Over 75 lakh students from nearly 45,000 schools from across India took part in the in what may be termed a massive awareness campaign on segregating wet and dry waste at source initiated by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) towards achieving the goal of garbage-free cities. In addition, citizens,…
Heads of Delegations of the United Nations Security Council’s Counter Terrorism Committee (CTC) called on the President of India, Smt Droupadi Murmu at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Saturday. They are in India to attend the Special Meeting of the UNSC CTC held in Mumbai and Delhi on 28-29 October, 2022. Welcoming the delegation members, the President appreciated their gesture of commencing their visit by paying tributes to the 26/11 victims in Mumbai. She said that India as the world’s largest democracy, with one of the most open and diverse societies in the world, has been a victim of terrorism for…
Union Minister for Commerce and Industry, Piyush Goyal asked India’s business community to give primacy to products that are made in India. He was addressing the All India Vaishya Federation (AIYF) in Hyderabad. He emphasized the need to promote industry and manufacturing in India and said that this would help boost employment and bring in prosperity to the lives of our citizens. He said that our talented artisans, craftsmen and entrepreneurs deserve to be supported and promoted. Goyal pointed out that in the last 30 years, India’s GDP had grown by 11.8 times. He reminisced that there was a time when…
Just a few days ahead of the Election Commission likely to announce dates for the assembly polls in Gujarat, the state government on Saturday decided to form a committee under a retired high court judge for the implementation of the Uniform Civil Code in the state. Announcing the decision at Gujarat BJP’s headquarters, Shree Kamalam, in Gandhinagar, State Home Minister Harsh Sanghavi said it is a historic decision. Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel has been vested with all powers to form the committee, he said. Union Minister Purshottam Rupala, who was also present, said that the move is towards realizing the…
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the revision of the Justice Department’s regulations to restrict federal prosecutors’ ability to obtain journalists’ phone and email records in government leak investigations with narrow exceptions. The Department of Justice said this decision codifies Garland’s July 2021 policy chang to extend the protections.“This is an important step to protect press freedom in the United States. These significant restraints to the Justice Department’s ability to subpoena journalists’ source material send a powerful message about the importance of reporters’ ability to protect their sources,” said CPJ U.S. and Canada Program Coordinator Katherine Jacobsen. CPJ and other press…
The fourth edition of the Goa Maritime Symposium (GMS) is being conducted by the Naval War College (NWC) at Goa from 31 Oct to 01 Nov 2022. The participants of the Symposium comprise Captains/ Commanders and equivalent-rank officers from Navies/ Maritime forces from friendly foreign countries viz., Bangladesh, Comoros, Indonesia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritius, Myanmar, Seychelles, Singapore, Sri Lanka, and Thailand, besides India. Conceptualised and instituted by the Indian Navy in 2016, the GMS is a forum for fostering collaborative thinking, cooperation and mutual understanding between India and key maritime nations of the Indian Ocean Region (IOR). The symposium is conducted biennially…
The Global Day of Action for Care today On the Global Day of Action for Care, October 29, workers demand investments and decent work in the care economy and the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) report, Putting the Care Economy in Place: Trade Unions in Action Around the World, explains why it matters. The ITUC is calling for 575 million new, decent jobs by 2030 and the formalisation of at least one billion informal jobs. Investment in the care economy is at the heart of these demands for job creation and formalisation. According to the recent ILO estimations, investing in…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that it is very important for the entire law and order system to be reliable and its trust and perception among the public are very important. Addressing the ‘Chintan Shivir’ of Home Ministers of States today via video conferencing, he said the arrival of police at the spot of a crime is taken as the arrival of the government. He stressed that there is no dearth of commitment and perception of the police needs to be further strengthened. Guiding them in this regard should be our ongoing process, he emphasised. He pointed out that crime is…
Dr. Srivari Chandrasekhar, Secretary, Department of Science and Technology, inaugurated the 1st ASEAN-India Start-up Festival (AISF) on 27th October 2022 in Bogor, Indonesia, in the presence ofMr. Satvinder Singh,Deputy Secretary-General for ASEAN Economic Community and Ambassador Mr. Jayant Khobragade, Indian Mission to ASEAN (IMA). “As a developing nation, India is currently dedicated to harnessing path-breaking innovations for comprehensive socio-economic growth. The ASEAN India partnership will enable concrete impact for this endeavor,” said Dr. Chandrasekhar in his inaugural address. Deputy Secretary-General for ASEAN Economic Community, Satvinder Singh, highlighted that ASEAN has a vibrant and promising startup ecosystem. “Despite the pandemic, last year…