भेदभाव
November 24, 2016
Background:
More than 300 Adivasi children have died in Malkangiri in the past two months of Japanese Encephalitis, official figure says 121 but local activists say the number is much higher, what is happening in Malkangiri?
Photo Courtesy: Greeshma Aruna Rai
Firstly, 32 children have been confirmed to have died due to JE. This by itself is cause for concern and requires all...
November 21, 2016
Eminent economist and researcher Dr Abul Barkat says that there will be no Hindus left in the country three decades from now.
Dr Abul Barkat
“The rate of exodus over the past 49 years points to that direction,” the Dhaka University teacher says in his book Political economy of reforming agriculture-land-water bodies in Bangladesh published yesterday....
November 20, 2016
जेएनयू के प्रॉक्टर की जांच में एबीवीपी कार्यकर्ता विक्रांत कुमार विश्वविद्यालय परिसर में हुए एक हंगामे के दौरान नजीब अहमद पर हमला करने के दोषी पाए गए हैं।
इस घटना के बाद नजीब एक महीने से भी अधिक समय से लापता है। उत्तर प्रदेश के बदायूं का रहने वाला नजीब (27) जेएनयू में स्कूल ऑफ बायोटेक्नोलॉजी का छात्र है और वह विश्वविद्यालय परिसर में विक्रांत सहित एबीवीपी के कार्यकर्ताओं के साथ हुई कथित...
November 20, 2016
My religion is nobody else’s business, says CJI Thakur
PTI Reports:
The relationship between man and God is “very personal” and should be “nobody else’s business”, Chief Justice of India T S Thakur said today as he stressed on tolerance for peace in society.
More lives have been lost in religious wars than due to political ideologies,...
November 20, 2016
गुजरात के पूर्व बीजेपी विधायक राजीव ओजा ने भाजपा अध्यक्ष अमित शाह पर गंभीर आरोप लगाए हैं। ओजा का कहना है कि आठ नवंबर से पहले तक अमित शाह नोटों बदलने के धंधे में शामिल थे। ओजा का कहना है कि उनके पास अपने आरोप साबित करने लिए वीडियो रिकार्डिंग है।
ओझा ने प्रधानंमत्री नरेंद्र मोदी को लिखी एक खुली चिट्ठी में नोटबंदी के फैसले पर उनकी जम कर आलोचना की है और कहा है कि यह देश को मूर्ख बनाने का कदम है...
November 20, 2016
Gujarat manhole deaths: High Court seeks details of what state govt has done to compensate kin by Dec 7. Petition by Manav Garima Trust
Images Courtesy: Counterview (Jitendra Rathod)
The Gujarat High Court has asked the state government pleader to obtain details of the “follow up action” taken, pursuant to the directions of the Supreme Court for...
November 20, 2016
Demonetization: South Gujarat farmers protest, warn Modi, it will lead to failue of winter crop due to cash crunch
Farmers from across south Gujarat districts choked Surat city roads on November 19 as a mark of protest against demonetisation and the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) decision restricting majority of the cooperative banks from dealing with the Rs 500 and Rs 1,000...
November 19, 2016
Earlier this year, Honourable Prime Minister Narendra Modi decided that the PMO website , www.pmindia.gov.in should be made multilingual in order to effectively highlight various initiatives of the government.
Previously it was available only in English and Hindi. In May 2016, Minister of External Affairs, Sushma Swaraj launched 6 language versions of PMO
India’s website viz. in...
November 19, 2016
A powerful statement of solidarity between concerned Indians, Hindu and Muslim, South Asian Americans and others against the growing Islamophobia manifest in the United States after the Donald Trump victory has been issued.
The text of the Solidarity Statement:
We issue this statement as concerned Hindus, South Asian Americans, and members of the AMEMSA (Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim,...
November 19, 2016
On November 16, Teesta Setalvad was invited to deliver the K.G.Kannabiran Memorial Lecture in Madurai by the People’s Union for Civil Liberties(PUCL).
The full text of the lecture cam be read here.
Excerpts
Land Acquisition, Forest Rights Act and Labour Laws
Apart from this assault on civil and political liberties, this regime –coming to power as it did backed by...