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Padma Bhushan ‘at the very least’ for Gyanesh Kumar: Bengal BJP leader's remark fuels ongoing row

West Bengal BJP chief Samik Bhattacharya said CEC Gyanesh Kumar deserved a Padma Bhushan "at the very least".

Padma Bhushan ‘at the very least’ for Gyanesh Kumar: Bengal BJP leader's remark fuels ongoing row

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Swedish rights prize honours Pakistani human rights lawyer Jalila Haider

Human rights lawyer and activist Jalila Haider on Wednesday received the Right Livelihood prize, dubbed an “alternative Nobel”. The Sweden-based Right Livelihood Foundation honoured Haider “for breaking barriers, as the first female lawyer from her Hazara community , to challenge ethnic, state and patriarchal persecution, guided by the…

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