‘Expedite refugee registration for those coming from Afghanistan’
The Hindu
Activists hold demonstration outside office of UNHCR
Various students’ bodies and women’s rights organisations on Monday assembled at Mandi House in solidarity with the people of Afghanistan. Stating that the liberties and lives of human rights activists and welfare workers based in Afghanistan were in danger from the Taliban, the groups said the UNHCR should expedite refugee status registration for those arriving from Afghanistan. The charter of demands endorsed by over 250 signatories also said the Election Commission of India must ensure that “Afghanistan and Taliban” are not used as pretexts for hate speeches during campaigns during upcoming State elections.
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Friday pledged to mobilise people in resistance against the BJP-led Union government’s “anti-agricultural worker, anti-farmer, anti-worker, anti-people” laws and policies till they are all repealed, the party said on Friday. In a statement issued here, the CPI(M) said the members took the pledge following a three-day meeting held at Thiruvananthapuram.

Expressing the need for more number of socially responsive engineers and lawyers for furthering development of the country, Governor Thaawarchad Gehlot here on Friday lauded St. Aloysius institution for widening its service in the education sector by opening separate institutes for engineering and law











