Last month, I met Imbesat Ahmad and Sharique Ahmad, two young men who are trying to make competitive exams a little easy for young aspirants in Jammu and Kashmir, especially in the Valley. The two have developed an app called Rise, which provides students with study material, counselling and information on courses and examinations, among…
In the last four years (2013-16) the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) officials have registered 118 cases of sexual harassment in its offices, reveals a right to information (RTI) response. In a reply to the RTI filed by activist Anil Galgali requesting number of sexual harassment complaints filed in the civic administration and action taken, the…
NEW DELHI—Amnesty International India said Tuesday that sedition allegations that have resulted in a police investigation into an event organized to discuss the troubled Kashmir region were “without substance.” Police in the southern city of Bangalore filed a preliminary complaint against the India chapter of the global human-rights nonprofit that alleges sedition, unlawful assembly, rioting and promoting enmity among…