Earlier in the day, the Supreme Court rejected the plea made by one of the Rohingya refugees seeking to restrain the centre from deporting them to Myanmar
1 min read4 Oct 2018Union home minister Rajnath Singh says advisories have already been issued to the states
1 min read1 Oct 2018Fiction-film censorship is talked about more, but documentaries get just as raw a deal
2 min read13 Jul 2018In a remarkable coincidence, a small city in Ukraine gave birth to not one but two giants of the international legal system
4 min read17 Mar 2018Three Nobel laureates Tawakkol Karman, Shirin Ebadi and Mairead Maguire have urged fellow laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to speak out about violence against the Rohingya minority, warning she otherwise risks prosecution for 'genocide'
2 min read26 Feb 2018Myanmar's UN ambassador Hau Do Suan has insisted that there is no ethnic cleansing or genocide taking place against Muslims
3 min read26 Sep 2017Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina said at the UNGA that Pakistan's army launched a 'heinous' operation in 1971 which triggered a 'genocide' during the liberation war, killing three million people
2 min read22 Sep 2017Amid Rohingya crisis, Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi will not attend the United Nations General Assembly this week, says her spokesman Zaw Htay
2 min read13 Sep 2017Both Sri Lankan troops and the LTTE were accused of grave human rights abuses during the final phases of the country's civil war, which ended in May 2009
1 min read15 May 2017Delhi HC says govt's inaction, stubble burning in Punjab is deducting 3 years of life expectancy in Delhi, which amounts to 'genocide' and 'murder'
3 min read10 Nov 2016The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from 1st April to 31st March of the next year. Here is a quick guide on how the Union Budget is prepared