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November 21, 2016
बीजेपी सांसद हुकम सिंह ने शनिवार को एक कार्यक्रम में हिंदुओं को चेतवानी दी कि आने वाले वक्त में दोबारा देश का बंटवारा हो सकता है।
बीजेपी सांसद हुकम सिंह
बीजेपी सांसद हुकम सिंह ने शनिवार को एक कार्यक्रम में हिंदुओं को चेतवानी दी कि आने वाले वक्त में दोबारा देश का बंटवारा हो सकता है। हुकम सिंह ने कहा, ‘हो सकता है यह मेरे जीते जी ना हो, लेकिन आने वाले 10,15,20 सालों में फिर...
November 21, 2016
आजमगढ़ को आतंकवाद से जोड़ा: भाजपा के केशव प्रसाद मौर्य, पुलिस की जांच
आजमगढ़. परिवर्तन यात्रा के दौरान भाजपा प्रदेश अध्यक्ष द्वारा दिये गये बयान से नाराज उलेमा कौंसिल के लोग उनके खिलाफ मुकदमा दर्ज करायेंगे। इस संबंध में कौंसिल द्वारा शनिवार की देर शाम शहर कोतवाली में तहरीर दी है। पुलिस ने तहरीर मिलने के बाद बयान की जांच शुरू कर दी है। अपर पुलिस अधीक्षक नगर ने कहा कि जांच के बाद...
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 17, 2016
The spread of fascism in the 1920s was significantly aided by the fact that liberals and mainstream conservatives failed to take it seriously. Instead, they accommodated and normalised it.
Image: PA/Roman Pilipey
The centre right is doing the same today. Brexit, Trump and the far right ascendant across Europe indicate that talk of a right-wing revolutionary moment is not exaggerated. And...
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
A newsroom can often be the most nerve-racking, jarring, or the most fun-filled place for a professional journalist. Given the speed at which news travels these days, it is also a place where decisions are taken in a heartbeat and executed within seconds. In all, the newsroom lies at the heart of any media organisation; be it a website or an old-school newspaper.
Not if you happen to be a...
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...