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November 19, 2016
An influential South-Asian rights group has terminated its ties with a major US airlines alleging that it was carrying out racial and religious profiling of Muslims, Arab and South-Asian passengers on its flights reports PTI.
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"Southwest (Airlines) employees have been racially profiling Muslim, Arab, and South Asian passengers in the last year, including at least...
November 19, 2016
गांधीनगर। गुजरात में उत्पीड़न के मामले में न्याय के लिए धरना दे रहे दलितों की सुनने के लिए राज्य की बीजेपी सरकार बिल्कुल तैयार नहीं है। न्याय की आस में दो महीने से अनशन पर बैठे परिवार ने अब हारकर मुख्यमंत्री से इच्छामृत्यु की मांग की है।
दरअसल गुजरात के उना तहसील के आकोलाली गांव निवासी लालजी काणाभाई सरवैया को 2012 में उनके ही घर में जिंदा जला दिया था। इस वारदात को सवर्णों ने...
November 19, 2016
'The presidency is about many things,' groups declare in letter to president-elect. 'Chiefly, it is about setting an example through your leadership.'
President-elect Donald Trump "must repent, take responsibility, and challenge those who have been emboldened by his words, and he must also change the direction of his policies that undermine the cause of justice and civil...
November 18, 2016
Kurdish women in one of the strongest and most radical women’s movements in the world are taking a battering from the Turkish state with impunity - as Europe looks the other way
Ayla Akat Ata, spokeswoman of Free Women’s Congress (KJA), 8th March celebration 2014 when she was still an MP.
‘’We will resist and resist until we win!“ chants Sebahat...
November 16, 2016
A revaluation of our institutions is in order
Photo Credit: Rajib Dhar/Dhaka Tribune
Let’s give it to the urban elite: We have yet again survived another crisis without having to resort to a much needed debate on democratic norms and institutions.
Some houses and temples have again been burned. People have again been victimised. It’s not a very surprising routine,...
November 16, 2016
The Dalit Voice is Simply Not Heard in the Mainstream Indian Media
This is the English translation of a speech given by Jeya Rani, a journalist for over 15 years from Tamil Nadu at the Network of Women in Media in India (NWMI) conference last week. NWMI is an informal collective of women journalists across the country.
Jeya spoke of her experiences as a Dalit woman journalist and the caste,...
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 14, 2016
The Jumm’ah (Friday prayer) gathering on November 11th was unusually quiet and everyone seemed to be deeply reflective. Unusually so. Even those who are usually chatty seemed quieter than normal. Given that we don’t have a mosque in the area where I live, we meet in a hotel room to pray, every Friday. The Imam there pointed out, like others throughout the country have, that there is...
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 11, 2016
बेगूसराय। पीएम मोदी के 500 और हजार के नोट बंद किए जाने के बाद कई लोगों की जान चली गई वहीं बिहार के बेगुसराय जिले में 500 और 1000 के नोट बंद हो जाने की वजह से बलात्कार की शिकार हुई एक बच्ची को उसका परिवार अस्पताल जाने के लिए घंटों भटकता रहा, लेकिन चेंज पैसे न होने की वजह से कोई भी एंबुलेंस उनकी बच्ची को अस्पताल ले जाने के लिए तैयार नहीं हुआ। इस घटना ने मोदी सरकार पर नोट बंद करने के फैसले को...