Slavery Abolition

Budget Is By The People, For The People, Says FM Sitharaman | Image: ANI New Delhi: Paraphrasing Abraham Lincoln, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday described the Union Budget as "by the people, for the people, of the people", and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi was fully behind the idea…

More than 100 years after his death, Anderson Ruffin Abbott's visit to the White House and his relationship with President Abraham Lincoln continue to fascinate people. Abbott, a man of notable firsts, is included in Jill L. Newmark's book Without Concealment, Without Compromise: The Courageous Lives of Black Civil War Surgeons. In addition to…

Fires continue to rage in Los Angeles, and already they have ranked among the most destructive urban blazes in American history. So far, they have killed at least 29 people, destroyed 17,000 structures, and caused, by one count, in excess of $250 billion in damages and loss. Strong winds and…

LONDON - British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government will retain a ban on asylum seekers being able to claim protections under modern slavery and other human rights laws, even as its ministers have previously criticised those measures. Mr Starmer is under pressure to deal with tens of thousands of people…

“If you want to know a man’s character, give him power.” —Abraham Lincoln I am fortunate at 92-plus to see the emergence of our eighth prime minister—although still in-waiting. Mr Stuart Young has had the unprecedented privilege of obtaining the support of his parliamentary colleagues including his party. He was…

Published Jan 14, 2025  •  Last updated Jan 14, 2025  •  3 minute read Migrant workers are shown in the fields on a farm in Kingsville, on June 17, 2020. Photo by Dax Melmer /Windsor Star By: Julia Drydyk Times are tough. Canadians are struggling to make ends meet. But…

A day after Larsen and Toubro (L&T) CEO SN Subrahmanyan asked people to work for 90 hours a week, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi on Friday hit out at him, saying it reeks of “wanting to be new age slave drivers”. In a post on X, Chaturvedi wrote, “Besides…

For decades Moe Turaga stayed silent on what happened to him in his teens. Though the physical scars have healed, the emotional wounds still hold weight. "The trauma of it never goes away," he told ABC. Mr Turaga arrived in Australia in the late 1980s, in search of making money…

For decades Moe Turaga stayed silent on what happened to him in his teens. Though the physical scars have healed, the emotional wounds still hold weight. "The trauma of it never goes away," he told ABC. Mr Turaga arrived in Australia in the late 1980s, in search of making money…

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