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November 10, 2016
Twenty four hours of having Donald Trump as the president elect and the streets of the United States of America (USA) look different. Shaun King, an American civil rights activist shared a number of screenshots of women sharing their experience of racism, misogyny and religious intolerance by Trump supporters, on the very next day of the election.
A Muslim woman, in...
November 9, 2016
Donald J Trump has declared victory in the US presidential election. The candidate took the stage in New York just before 3am local time to announce that his rival, Hillary Clinton, had called him to concede the race.
Donald Trump claims victory in New York. Mike Segar/Reuters
“The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer,” the president-...
November 8, 2016
12 things we can't ignore as America votes.
Image credit: Vox.com
For John Berger at 90, whose uncompromising tenderness and compassion shows us how to look hard yet be full of care.
1. There should be a plural term for violences. This would let us talk about how to choose between violences. Today, this would mean judging between different ‘brands’ of violence in the...
November 6, 2016
उत्तर प्रदेश। यह आत्महत्या का महिमामंडन नहीं है। लेकिन आत्महत्या दुख और भावनात्मक लाचारी के चरम से पार कर जाने के बाद का कदम है। इसे जो लोग मानसिक रूप से बीमार व्यक्ति का लक्षण मानते हैं, वे शायद सही ही कहते होंगे...क्योंकि वे ऐसा मानते होंगे...!
उत्तर प्रदेश के एक गांव में रहनेवाली 40 साल की औरत तब आत्महत्या करने पर मजबूर हो गई जब उसके बलात्कार का वीडियो सोशल नेटवर्किंग वेबसाइट वॉट्सऐप पर...
November 6, 2016
If not Theresa May, the accompanying media ought to note the gross human rights violations and crackdowns on dissent that abound.
Prime Minister Theresa May holds a meeting with her Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, on the second day of the G20 Summit in Hangzhou, China. Stefan Rousseau/PA Images.
Britain's recently elected Prime Minister Theresa May, post-Brexit, has chosen to visit...
November 2, 2016
Former army chief and now a minister in Narendra Modi’s cabinet, General VK Singh, made an outrageous comment on Wednesday by questioning the mental condition of the soldier, who was forced to commit suicide on the issue of One Rank One Pension.
Singh was quoted as saying, “Reason for his suicide being reported is OROP. I don’t t know what his mental state was. It needs...
November 2, 2016
Admitting that it’s his party’s policy to differentiate on the basis or religion, Assam minister and convenor of the BJP’s North East Democratic Alliance (NEDA) Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday asked the people to choose their enemy between “1-1.5 lakh people or the 55 lakh people?”, according to an Indian Express report.
Himanta Biswa Sarma ...
November 2, 2016
फर्जी एनकाउंटर में मारे गए 8 सिमी कार्यकर्ताओं की हत्या पर अब केन्द्र की बीजेपी सरकार ने जमकर राजनीति करनी शुरू कर दी है। कल सरकार में तीन मंत्रियों ने इस पर भड़काऊ भाषण दिए थे।
जिनमें सबसे पहले कल मध्य प्रदेश के बीजेपी शासन वाली सरकार की जेल मंत्री ने एक मीडिया चैनल से बात करते हुए कहा था कि “आप लोगों को हमारी तारीफ करनी चाहिए कि हमने आरोपियों के भाग निकलने के बावजूद उन्हें मार...
October 30, 2016
Naroda patiya case: Babu Bajrangi gets 7 day-bail, 14th time since conviction
The Vacation Bench of Justice B N Karia partly allowed Bajrangi’s bail plea by giving him seven days relief from jail against 30 days which he had sought.
Babubhai Patel alias Babu Bajrangi, Courtsey: The Indian Express
The Gujarat High Court on Thursday, October 27, three days ago, granted...
October 27, 2016
A top woman functionary of a Kerala-based Hindu outfit has been booked for her alleged inflammatory speeches, which were widely circulated on social media.
Police today said the case was registered against ‘Hindu Aikya Vedi’ state President K P Sasikala under IPC section 153-A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race etc and doing acts prejudicial to...