Addressing caste-based discrimination in jails is not just about upholding prisoners’ rights; it is about reaffirming our commitment to the constitutional values of equality, dignity and justice.
Microsoft will best understand the vulnerability of every chunk of its code, and can devise ways to guard it; if that means transforming it into a giant cyber security firm, so be it.
PM Modi’s just concluded two-day visit to Russia has not only bridged the annual summitry hiatus, but also reinforced the special and privileged strategic partnership
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on an official visit to Moscow from July 8-9 which happened to be his first bilateral one in the Modi 3.0 era.
This was also in the backdrop of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war and after a gap of nearly five years. His last visit was to Vladivostok in 2019 for the Far Eastern Economic Forum where he was invited as the Chief Guest given Russian focus for attracting greater strategic and economic engagement by India in the region. Several announcements and commitments were made.
Every year on June 30, Our world celebrates the International Day of Parliamentarism, also known as World Parliament Day. On this day in 1889, the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) was established by a small group of parliamentarians who believed that parliamentary dialogue and diplomacy are essential to settling differences rather than going on to war, 135 years later, nearly every country in the world has some form of parliament, accounting to a total of 190 today.
The official 22nd India-Russia annual summit took place in Moscow on the 8th of July 2024. This was also the first time PM Modi visited Moscow since the start of the Russia-Ukraine conflict in 2021.
The National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) was launched by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) at the start of 2019 to improve the air quality of 131 cities across 24 states/UTs in India. It is the first-ever effort by the Indian government to provide a national-level framework with time-bound reduction.
In the last four decades, however, attempts to assassinate presidents or presidential nominees had seemed relegated to the past.