भेदभाव
December 7, 2016
Each one of us can take meaningful action to end the scourge of gender-based violence
All men should stand up to violence against women /BIGSTOCK
To all fathers, sons, and husbands:
Every daughter has a father; every son has a mother; every husband, a wife. As daughters, mothers, and wives, we call upon the men of Bangladesh to stand with the girls and women they...
December 7, 2016
There was precious little about the icon in the newspapers or on mainstream websites on Tuesday.
I wish to use the word Untouchable, with the U capitalised, with the unambiguous coldness with which Dr BR Ambedkar used it in his speeches and writings to describe a regime of systemic horror that most people of the subcontinent have learnt to live with for centuries. A system that saw...
December 7, 2016
पूर्व आईएस अफसर ईएएस शर्मा ने मोदी सरकार में बैठे मंत्रियों और वीवीआईपी की ओर से अपने यहां के शादी समारोहों में धन के भौंडे प्रदर्शन पर नाराजगी व्यक्त करते हुए पीएम को पत्र लिखा है। उन्होंने मोदी से यह जानना चाहा है कि क्या उनकी सरकार में लोगों के लिए दोहरे मापदंड हैं। क्या उनकी सरकार में एनडीए के मंत्रियों के लिए एक नियम और आम भारतीय नागरिक के लिए दूसरा नियम है। क्या इनकम टैक्स...
December 6, 2016
If the Khadki Ordnance Factory (OFK) is not manufacturing the anti-riot weapon called "pellet guns, where are law enforcement agencies, particularly the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in J&K, buying these pellet guns from?
Terror financing seems to be alive despite demonetisation/remonetisation drive
The security forces are reported to have told the...
December 6, 2016
In conversation: BEZWADA WILSON and T.M. KRISHNA, with Nilanjana Roy, on Sunday, 11th December, 7 pm, at Amaltas Hall, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
December 5, 2016
The moot question remains: when will the government and society stop hiring people for such dangerous and demeaning work of cleaning septic tanks and manholes?
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Activist Parsottam Vaghela has successively, after a month’s effort, on the late night of December 3, one month and three days after 3 sanitation workers died due to poisonous gas while...
December 5, 2016
An off-duty hijab-clad Muslim police officer was called “ISIS” and told to go back to her “country” by a white man who also pushed her 16-year-old son, the latest in a series of incidents in which headscarf-wearing women have been targeted in the US following Donald Trump’s win.
Officer Aml Elsokary, who was off duty and wearing her hijab, dropped off her son in...
December 5, 2016
देश में भाषा के लिहाज से हिन्दी भाषी क्षेत्र सबसे बड़ा है। हिन्दी की पत्र-पत्रिकाओं की कश्मीर के बारे में आम जन मानस के बीच एक तरह की राय बनाने में सर्वाधिक भूमिका मानी जाती है।मीडिया स्टडीज ग्रुप ने हिन्दी पत्रकारिता के जरिये कश्मीर की एक खास तरह की छवि बनाने की पृष्ठभूमि का अध्ययन करने की एक योजना तैयार की। हिन्दी पत्रकारिता में सक्रिय पत्रकारों के बीच एक सर्वेक्षण किया गया जिसमें कश्मीर के...
December 4, 2016
Black Money stashes are not Turning into rubbish, but the government’s stated objectives are
Three weeks ago, the decision to scrap 500 and 1000-rupee notes was sold as a moral crusade, indeed, as a war on corruption. This narrative has now fallen apart. On November 29, Lok Sabha forced through a bill that ends the war and assures safe passage to those who hold black money in cash.
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December 4, 2016
E.A.S.Sarma
14-40-4/1 Gokhale Road
Maharanipeta
Visakhapatnam 530002
Mobile: 91-9866021646
To
Shri Karnal Singh
Director
Enforcement Directorate
Govt of India
Dear Shri Karnal Singh,
I have just come across an NDTV report showing scenes of a wedding function lavishly conducted by shri Mahesh Sharma, a Cabinet colleague of the Prime Minister.
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