Faulty EVMs: Voting Stopped in Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has refuted media reports that claimed ‘large scale’ failure of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trails (VVPATs) in the ongoing…
Allies Accept Japan’s Mission to NATO in Belgium
The North Atlantic Council agreed last week to accept Japan’s request to designate its Embassy to Belgium as its Mission to NATO. The Ambassador of Japan to Belgium will be…
Akshay Kumar Launches Ad Campaign for Swachh Bharat
A Bollywood actor, Akshay Kumar, launched Sunday an advertisement campaign for the Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen) in Delhi. The campaign was launched at a Collectors Convention for Toilet Technology organized…
UNICEF Reveals Nine Key Facts on Menstruation
According to UNICEF, menstruation is a normal and healthy part of life for most women. Roughly half of the female population — around 26 per cent of the global population…
PM Narendra Modi Inaugurates Delhi-Meerut Expressway
The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, inaugurated today two newly built expressways in the Delhi NCR Region. The first of these is the 14-lane, access controlled, Phase-I of the…
Press Freedom: Algerian Blogger Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) – a professional organization that works for press freedom in the world – condemns the 10-year jail sentence that the Algerian blogger Touati Merzoug received last…