London, 23/9: Cambridge University benefited directly from enslavement and the slave trade, a three-year enquiry has found. While Cambridge has often celebrated its well-known abolitionists, like Thomas Clarkson and William Wilberforce, a new report shows that the institution benefitted substantially from the slave trade over many years, with a significant part of the university’s…
Mumbai: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has slapped a notice on the Maharashtra Government on the shocking issue of a couple forced to carry their two dead sons for 15 kms due to lack of an ambulance in Gadchiroli-Amravati districts recently, an official said on Monday.The NHRC notices to the state Health Department Principal Secretary…
New Delhi, 8/4 (AO Bureau)The Indian Premier League (IPL) will be held in six cities of the country this year from April 9 to May 30, in which no team will play matches at their home ground. According to the program prepared by the IPL Governing Council, matches will be held in Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai,…
Mumbai, 3/3: Amazon.com Inc and India’s second-largest retailer, Future Group, have agreed to talks, seeking to resolve legal wrangles at the heart of a battle for supremacy in the country’s vast retail sector. In an unexpected move on Thursday, Amazon counsel Gopal Subramanium suggested at a Supreme Court hearing that the two sides…
Iran, 10/11: Iran has developed a hypersonic missile capable of penetrating all defence systems, General Amirali Hajizadeh, the commander of its Revolutionary Guards aerospace unit, claimed on Thursday. Hypersonic missiles, like traditional ballistic missiles which can deliver nuclear weapons, can fly more than five times the speed of sound. “This hypersonic ballistic…
Ahmedabad, 20/3: The new National Education Policy (NEP) has been accepted by all and the whole country is working to implement it, unlike the NEPs in the past which created controversies owing to ideological links, Union Home Minister Amit Shah has said. Addressing graduating students at the 4th convocation of the Central University of Gujarat…
Kashmir, 15/11: At least 36 people were killed and 19 injured when a bus carrying passengers skidded off the road and rolled down into a 300-foot gorge in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district on Wednesday, officials said. The bus bearing registration number JK02CN-6555 was reportedly carrying around 40 passengers, the officials said, adding that it…
New Delhi, 29/5 (AO Bureau):External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, in his talks with top US officials on Saturday, described the Covid-19 epidemic and vaccines as important aspects and said that efforts to expand the production of vaccines in India with the help of America. being done. 66-year-old Jaishankar is the first Indian minister to visit…
Keonjhar, 11/8: In a sad piece of news , Odia Jawan got martyrdom after being shot by the Naxal in an encounter at Jharkhand.The deceased Odia jawan has been identified as Sushant Khuntia who hailed from the Andanpur area in Keonjhar district. The encounter broke out in a forest in the Tonto area, about 160…
Chennai, 3/4: The Congress party on Friday announced their list of 27 candidates for the upcoming Tamil Nadu Assembly elections. Congress state chief K Selvaperunthagai is set to contest from Sriperumbudur assembly constituency and former MP Dr A Chella Kumar has been given the Krishnagiri constituency. In Tamil Nadu, Congress are in alliance with the…
