US District Judge Carl J. Barbier, in New Orleans, Louisiana, issued a ruling in the favor of the Louisiana branch of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) as it filed a suit against the Tangipahoa Parish School Board. The ACLU claims that the allowing of Bible handouts in public schools violates the First Amendment of […]
Passporting Made Easy
Since July 2007, the DFA has been issuing the Machine Readable Passport. All countries now issue and use Machine Readable Passport (MRP). The maroon-colored MRP contains a summary of data in a format that can be read by a machine thus meeting all the requirements of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), and facilitates the […]
UGC issues smart cards to student community
UGC in India is issuing multipurpose smart cards to more than one crore students in various colleges and universities. This would help UGC to monitor the students’ performance as well watch on malpractices prevailing in the education system. More about University UGC issues smart cards to student community
UGC issues SMART CARDS to student community
The University Grants Commission (UGC) in India is issuing multipurpose smart cards to more than one crore students hailing from 16,885 colleges and about 300 universities in India, with their own unique number on it. The UGC has proposed to create a National Graduate Student Repository and allocate a unique number to about one crore […]
Sex workers to get ID cards
Sex workers who report to AP State AIDS Control Society centres are to be issued identity cards soon. The Apsacs project director, Mr R. Chandravadan, said the ‘Smart Sahara’ cards would be of much help to the sex workers. “We are issuing ID cards to sex workers and those living with HIV so that they […]
Zimbabwe’s opposition warns of bloodshed
Zimbabwe’s opposition accused President Robert Mugabe today of unleashing a campaign of violence since elections and called on African states to intervene to prevent widespread bloodshed. The Movement for Democratic Change said Mugabe was trying to provoke a backlash as a pretext for declaring a state of emergency that could help him prolong his 28 […]
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