Winners of 1st AMP National Awards for Social Excellence 2021 was announced on the evening of Independence Day, 15th August in a ceremony attended by guests and a large gathering of participants from across India.

Women activists, politicians and intellectuals have expressed concern over the fact that the country has failed to give its women constitutional rights at a virtual gathering organized by the Women’s Wing of Jamaat-E-Islami Hind (JIH). It was organized to open up a dialogue on the plight of women, identify reasons and suggest solutions.

The interrogation of children by weapon-carrying and uniformed policemen at Karnataka’s Shaheen School last January in a sedition case amounted to a violation of the Juvenile Justice Act and was prima facie a “serious case of violation of the rights of children”, Karnataka High Court observed on Monday.

Noting that prolonged incarceration infringes the right to life and personal liberty, the Bombay High Court on Monday granted bail to Iqbal Ahmed Kabir Ahmed, an alleged Islamic State (IS) recruit from Parbhani, who was arrested in 2016 for purported links with the organisation.

Taliban are sons of the soil. They fought against foreign invaders and defeated them and their local stooges who fled the country at the first opportunity, leaving their people in the lurch.