Breaching Digital Rights: India’s Platform and Media Ethics Code

Having made something of a splash last month with the fuss over Australia’s News Media Bargaining code, Facebook, and the digital giants, are facing another stormy front in India.  The move here has nothing to do with revenue so much as alleged bad behaviour.  “We appreciate the proliferation of social media in India,” stated Ravi […]

CSW Raises Human Rights Violation Alarm As India Marks 72nd Republic Day

Human Rights organization that specializes in Religious freedom, CSW is calling on the government of India to uphold the fundamental rights contained in the Indian Constitution as the country marks its 72nd Republic Day. India became a republic on 26 January 1950, the day the constitution came into effect. The date marked a turning point […]

Immortal Wins: India Defeats Fortress Australia

It was never meant to be like this.  After the Indian cricketing team met misery and disaster in the first test match at Adelaide, registering a paltry 36 in its second innings, little hope was had for the touring side.  Australia threatened rout and massacre.  The Border-Gavaskar trophy seemed within the home side’s grasp. And […]

CSW Urges UK Government To Raise Freedom Of Religion, Belief With India After Parliamentary Debate

Human Rights Organization, CSW which specializes in freedom of religion and belief, is calling on the UK government to ensure that fundamental human rights, including freedom of religion or belief, are not left out in the UK’s bilateral dialogues with India. According to the group in a statement on Thursday, in a debate on the […]

Five Indians Jailed for Oil Theft In Lagos

The Lagos office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction and sentencing of five illegal oil thieves to one year imprisonment each before Justice Rilwan Aikawa of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos The convicts, who are all Indian nationals, are: Visal Guleria, Pranjal Singh, Rahul Pathania, Akash […]

Nigeria: As it was in India?

India has a population that it is seven times bigger than Nigeria yet the former which shares the same colonial ancestry with the latter appears to be a happy twin sister. This is because Nigeria has overtaken India as World Poverty Capital, World Open Defecation Capital, World Capital of under-five deaths and Third World Most […]

India records 77,226 new COVID-19 cases in 24 hours

India has seen a large spike in numbers of new Coronavirus cases after 77,226 infections were recorded in the last 24 hours, the highest single-day caseload in the world. As at Friday, India has a total of more than 3.38 million cases since the start of the pandemic with 46 percent of infections detected in […]

Disaster Looms in India, Bangladesh as COVID-19 Stalls Cyclone Harold’s Rescue Operations, UNCTAD Chiefs Say

Millions of people in India and Bangladesh are bracing for devastation as Cyclone Amphan makes landfall.  Most vulnerable populations and structurally vulnerable countries such as Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are particularly exposed to multiple shocks. For them, the impacts are devastating, by pushing households into deeper poverty and wiping out years of gains made […]

IITA’s Banana Breeding Programme Wins Award In India

The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) says its banana breeding programme has won an award. Head of IITA’s Banana Breeding programme, Rony Swennen, according to the Institute, received the “Dedicated Scientist Award for his exemplary commitment to Banana research” during an International Conference on Banana held in Trichy, India on February 22-25, 2020. Swennen also gave the first keynote […]

With A Range Of Energy Market Reforms, India Now Vital For Global Energy Markets Future

India is gradually becoming vital for the future of the global energy markets. In recent years, the government appears to be making impressive progress in increasing citizens’ access to electricity and clean cooking. The government, according to informed sources, has also successfully implemented a range of energy market reforms and carried out a huge amount […]