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New Delhi, Mar 19(ANI): Union Cabinet on Friday approved the proposal for revival of National Jute Manufactures Corporation (NJMC) Ltd
According to the revival plan the Corporation would restart production in three mills out of total six closed mills.
This will lead to an additional production of jute products and value addition.
The mills approved for revival are [...]

Kuala Lumpur, Mar. 20 (ANI): The Malaysian Government should address the grievances of its 1.8 million-strong Indian population in the 10th Malaysia Plan, according to a researcher.
The Star Online quoted Dr Denison Jayasooria, a principal research fellow at the Institute of Ethnic Studies, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, as saying that most government agencies did not seriously [...]

Agra, March 17 (IANS) Dead bodies found along railway tracks, at road accident sites and in village wells in this region shall not be cremated without a record. They will now have a permanent abode in cyber space.
An NGO in the Taj city, ‘Help Agra’, Wednesday launched a website, www.unidentifieddeadbodies.in, which will show all available [...]

The Western Australian Opposition’s spokeswoman for child protection has called for more than just a hostel to be built for troubled youth in Carnarvon.
Sue Ellery visited the town last Friday and says she is concerned about the number of young children roaming the streets at night.
There has already been widespread support shown for a proposed [...]

Aboriginal people living on the streets of Broome are being offered free bus tickets to get them back to their communities.
Hundreds of Aboriginal people sleep rough in the town’s parks and sand-dunes in conditions the local Shire has described as third world.
The shire last week called their living conditions a disgrace and said children were [...]

Islamabad, Aug. 28 (ANI): Almost 1.6 million of the 2.3 million refugees, who were displaced during Pakistani military’s offensive against the Taliban in Malakand division, have returned to their homes.

The Dawn quoted United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator Martin Mogwanja, as saying that attacks by militants in certain pockets was a major concern for returning people.

He added [...]

Agra, July 9 (IANS) Poor agricultural yields, high irrigation costs and exorbitant prices of essential commodities – all this and more are causing alarm bells to ring as parts of western Uttar Pradesh are facing “drought-like” conditions. Farmers are concerned about the lack of action by the government.
The Agra division, which comprises the districts Mathura, [...]

Kuala Lumpur, May 15 (ANI): Men, who have for a long time been seen as the aggressors in a family, are now reported to be suffering the same violence at the hands of their wives.

As per Penang Integrity Institute (PII) chief executive officer Rozaidi Razali, there were at least 50 reported cases of men being [...]

Beijing, May 4 (ANI): Believe it or not, Chinese civil servants who refuse or fail to consume a sufficient amount of locally made cigarettes, will be fined.

An order to this effect has been passed in Hubei Province. The regulation set standards for the number and brands of cigarettes to be bought and used by [...]

Lahore, Apr.29 (ANI): The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has termed claims of former President General Pervez Musharraf that almost all persons who have ‘disappeared’ in the past from the country have gone missing of their own will, is ‘absolutely untenable’.

A commission statement said General Musharraf’s claims that state agencies did not have [...]

Leh (Jammu and Kashmir), Apr 11 (ANI): Many self-help groups in Choshut village of Leh are working on various social issues to help women become self-sufficient.
Shashi Self-Help Group, one of the oldest self-help groups in the region, had started with only six members and now at present, there are more than 15 women members working [...]

Forcing freshers into group sex and night-long physical abuse are the most horrendous, but common, forms of ragging in Indian educational institutions, according to a report submitted by the NGO Coalition to Uproot Ragging from Education (CURE) to the Planning Commission. As government agencies do not have any data on ragging cases in India, the [...]

Lahore, Feb.22 (ANI): US strategists feel that Washington’s policy regarding Pakistan and Afghanistan needs massive overhaul if it wants to establish peace in the troubled region, and succeed in its objectives.

According to a report prepared by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the US has to deal with three major ‘policy challenges’.

The first [...]

New York, Feb 21 (ANI): US First Lady Michelle Obama caused a stir on February 20, when she appeared at an event with a new hair-do – a pulled back look.

Barack Obama’s wife, who usually keeps her hair styled straight or slightly flipped at the ends, appeared at the Department of Transportation wearing an up-do, [...]