सांप्रदायिक संगठन
November 16, 2016
Muslims in India should speak out against any act of violence on Hindus committed by members of the majority population in Islamic countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh, Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said on Tuesday.
He was a addressing a gathering in New Delhi at a seminar on — Role of Muslim Youth in Strengthening Democracy — organised by National Tricolour Association of...
November 14, 2016
On November 14, 2016, Pandit Nehru’s Birth Anniversary, the Indian National Congress re-launched the National Herald under the stewardship of Neelabh Mishra, erstwhile editor of the Hindi Outlook. Mishra had been asked to leave Outlook after a series of shake-ups in the publication, widely believed in the journalist world, to be under executive pressure. Editor of the English edition of the...
November 12, 2016
अगर सुप्रीम कोर्ट के हिसाब से हिंदुत्व जीवन जीने का एक तरीका है तो इस्लाम और ईसाई या कोई अन्य धर्म क्यों नहीं?
भारतीय राजनीति पर इन दिनों भयानक साया मंडरा रहा है। मौजूदा भारतीय राजनीति के प्रमुख खिलाड़ी अपनी पार्टियों, कार्यक्रमों और घोषणापत्रों के जरिये ऐसे मौकापरस्त और वर्चस्ववादी समाज के विचारों को आगे बढ़ाने में लगे हैं, जो भारतीय राजनीति की बहुलतावादी परंपरा के बिल्कुल खिलाफ हैं। ये...
November 12, 2016
The targeting of minorities by Islamists anywhere in the Muslim world must be denounced by religious and political leaders in our country
Image: Star/ Focus Bangla
Hundreds of people ransacked temples and vandalized homes of the Hindu minority in the Brahmanbairs district of eastern Bangladesh. Over 100 Hindu homes and 17 temples were vandalised and looted since October 30 in...
November 12, 2016
“We are the people who were beaten and whose houses were burnt to ashes after being looted to the last valuables. We were shot and wounded critically. And now they have handcuffed my ailing husband and tied a rope around his waist – what kind of justice is this?”
Charan Soren, one of the victims in November 6 attack on his village in Gaibandha, was spotted lying in a...
November 12, 2016
A three-day training camp of the Rashtra Sevika Samiti opens in Delhi with talk of matri shakti – but only within the confines of a family.
For a snapshot of how the all-male Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has kept its women’s wing relegated to a domestic role and away from all issues of gender justice, visit the three-day training camp of the Rashtra Sevika Samiti, which was...
November 11, 2016
Today, November 11 is the 128th Birth Anniversary of Maulana Azad. In 1992 he was posthumously awarded India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna. He was 70 years when he passed away on February 22, 1958.
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was twice elected President of the Indian National Congress, in 1923 and again in 1940. This excerpt from his historic address made at...
November 11, 2016
Even as we celebrated 'resistance' and ‘democracy’ in ensuring the ban on NDTV ‘was put on hold’ (the Modi regime made this announcement on November 7 after the channel had gone to court and there had been a vociferous outcry on the ban), we Indians have remained mealy-mouthed and silent on the 65 day old ban on Kashmir Reader, a newspaper published from the...
November 11, 2016
राजीव यादव यूपी में सामाजिक व राजनीतिक संगठन ‘रिहाई मंच’ के सक्रिय नेता हैं. मानव अधिकारों के उल्लंघन के मुद्दों को पूरी सक्रियता के साथ उठाते रहे हैं. भोपाल में कथित सिमी कार्यकर्ताओं के कथित एनकाउंटर पर भी इन्होंने ज़ोर-शोर से सवाल उठाएं और विरोध में लखनऊ में प्रदर्शन का ऐलान किया. अभी प्रदर्शन की तैयारी ही कर रहे थे कि पुलिस ने इन्हें पकड़ लिया और मारते-पीटते पुलिस चौकी ले गई....
November 11, 2016
Congress has already granted wide power to the president to alter immigration rules, so he will not need congressional approval.
Photo credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Candidate Trump was never particularly specific on the policy details of how the Muslim ban would work. But with President-elect Trump set to take office in January, and his pledge to implement the ban on day one now...