As per the 2016 Global Slavery Index, released by Australia-based human rights group Walk Free Foundation, an estimated 45.8 million people including women and children are subject to modern day slavery in the world.
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27th Dec 2024 | Updated at 03:44am 27th Dec 2024
CM Sharma visits UK to usher investments into ‘Rising Rajasthan’
The Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma, Deputy CM Diya Kumari with delegates visited London last week, to host an investor meet. The afternoon was organised by FICCI and High Commission of India at Taj 51 Buckingham Gate, and was attended...
Punjab govt to move SC against governor
Chandigarh: The two-day Punjab assembly session was cut short by a day after chief minister Bhagwant Mann informed the House that since governor Banwarilal Purohit had not given assent to the three money Bills, his government would resume the...
Gaganyaan test flight's crew module successfully recovered by Navy
Hours after the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) scientists successfully conducted the Gaganyaan failure test, the Navy’s Eastern Naval Command recovered the Crew Module (CM) from the Bay of Bengal. Isro chief S Somanath said the crew...
KCR unveils poll promises to counter Congress' guarantees
Hyderabad: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) unveiled its own set of promises ahead of the November 30 assembly polls to counter Congress’s “six guarantees”, setting the stage for a competitive electoral race as the party led by CM K Chandrasekhar...
TMC stands for 'terror, mafia, corruption': Nadda
Kolkata: Launching a frontal attack on the Mamata Banerjee-led regime in Bengal, BJP national president J P Nadda said that the time has come to bid farewell to the jungle raj of the TMC, which stands for ’Terror, Mafia, Corruption’.
Encroachment row: Didi gives Amartya Sen land deed
Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday handed over land record documents of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen’s residence in Santiniketan to the celebrated economist, dismissing the claims of the current Visva-Bharati dispensation that he was illegally...
Vibrant Gujarat roadshow held in Mumbai
Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani held a roadshow in Mumbai on November 26, for the ninth edition of the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit 2019
Manchester airport delivers major boost to north with new Mumbai connection
Jet Airways’ five-times-a-week service from Manchester to Mumbai took for the first time this morning, at a celebration attended by Aviation Minister, Baroness Liz Sugg and hundreds of guests from across the region.
The Jeddah-based Islamic Development Bank is all set to launch in Gujarat in a bid to promote Islamic finance for homegrown startups and fund Indian exports to African and central Asian Muslim nations.
The Chairman of Charutar Arogya Mandal, Dr Amrita Patel is currently in UK to raise awareness for the Shree Krishna Hospital in Karmsand, Anand.
A special SIT court that convicted 24 people in the Gulberg Society massacre case, adjourned hearing on the pronouncement of the quantum of punishment...
Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh has demanded an imposition of the President's Rule in the state claiming the law and order situation was going totally...
The state was on a high alert after radical Sikh organisation Dal Khalsa called for Amritsar bandh on Monday to mark the 32nd anniversary of the Operation...
The Punjab and Haryana Hight Court has taken suo-motu cognzance of a report from one its judges regarding 251 inmates of the Faridkot district jail.
Statue of the iconic tribal freedom fighter Birsa Munda, who fought against the British Raj, will soon be unchained.
The internet had an absolute field day over the petty faux pas made by Kerala Industry and Sports Minister EP Jayarajan in his obituary reference on late...
After coming back into power, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has begun to give out freebies like she promised.
