अल्पसंख्यांक
December 15, 2016
The recent violent attacks on a Hindu temple in Bangladesh’s Netrokona district, and previous assaults on temples and homes in October in Brahmanbaria are a troubling illustration of Bangladesh’s struggle to protect two of its fundamental values: secularism and pluralism.
Students gathered in 2013 to show their support for the Shahbag movement for freedom and democracy in...
December 15, 2016
धार्मिक आधार पर दाढ़ी बढ़ाने को लेकर भारतीय सेना से हटाए गए मुस्लिम सैनिक मकतुम हुसैन की अपील को सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने अस्वीकार कर दिया है।
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सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने कहा है कि एयरफोर्स के स्टाफ जब तक सर्विस में हैं वे दाढ़ी नहीं बढ़ा सकते। ड्यूटी पर रहते हुए दाढ़ी बढ़ाने के कारण मकतुम को एयरफोर्स से निकाल दिया गया था...
December 15, 2016
This is the way most missing persons cases go in Delhi – with one-third of them unsolved in the last three years.
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On the morning of October 15, Najeeb Ahmed, a 27-year-old first-year postgraduate student of biotechnology at Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University, was spotted getting into an autorickshaw on the campus. He has not been seen since.
In this period...
December 15, 2016
The Union Government’s rhetoric on ‘Make in India” and ‘Skill India’, will remain on paper unless the government doesn't accord enough importance to the education sector. While, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is busy working on these slogans, the budgetary allocation for primary and higher education by its government has been cut massively.
The...
December 14, 2016
The Jawaharlal Nehru university Student Union (JNUSU)'s call for Indefinite sir in, in late November was followed by a crude and militaristic intervention by the RSS-inspired Vice Chancellor of this prestigious institution of higher learning.
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Soon after JNUSU's call came, the space which used to be the spot for protest, inspiring speeches and meetings by students...
December 13, 2016
There are not just wide holes in the government's story, the story is one wide hole.
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Menacing clouds have gathered earlier as well over the picturesque lake city of Bhopal. Clouds of dangerous, even criminal, public malfeasance. In the winter of 1984, the people of the city endured the world’s worst industrial disaster in history. In 1992, it was rocked by one of...
December 10, 2016
मुंबई में एक शिक्षिका ने बुधवार को इस्तीफा दे दिया क्योंकि उसे स्कूल की संचालिका ने स्कूल परिसर में हिजाब और बुर्का पहनकर आने से मना किया था। 25 वर्षीय खान शबीना नाज़नीन कुर्ला स्थित विवेक इंग्लिश स्कूल में पढ़ाती थीं।
नाज़नीन ने बताया कि वो पिछले दो साल से कुर्ला स्थित विवेक इंग्लिश स्कूल में एक आईसीटी टीचर के तौर पर इस पढ़ा रही थीं। लेकिन जब जून महीने में नई स्कूल संचालिका ने...
December 8, 2016
तीन तलाक के मामले पर देश में चल रही बहस के बीच इलाहाबाद हाई कोर्ट ने आज एक बड़ी टिप्पणी की, कोर्ट ने तीन तलाक को असंवैधानिक बताते हुए कहा है कि इससे मुस्लिम महिलाओं के अधिकारों का हनन होता है।
अदालत ने कहा है कि पर्सनल लॉ बोर्ड संविधान से ऊपर नही हो सकते। अदालत के मुताबिक ऐसे बोर्डों को भी संविधान के मुताबिक काम करना होगा. तीन तलाक के खिलाफ दायर याचिका पर सुनवाई करते हुए हाई कोर्ट ने...
December 8, 2016
The first rationalist to be killed, allegedly and in all likelihood by the Sanathan Sanstha was Narayan Dabholkar, while on a morning walk in Pune, near the Omkreshwar temple, shot dead at point blank range.
Dr Hamid Dabholkar, son of Dr Narendra Dabholkar, psychiatrist and state secretary of Maharashtra Andhashradha Nirmulan Samiti (ANIS), today, spoke once again to Mumbai...
December 8, 2016
Alka Dhupkar and Divyesh Singh, journalists with the Mumbai mirror have today reported the CBI’s ‘lie’ in misinforming the Court that it is actually awaiting Scotland Yard Reports. The agency investigating the murders of the rationalists has been maintaining that it is awaiting reports from UK when it emerges that they are awaiting permission to send it in the first place...