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December 16, 2016
उच्चतम न्यायालय ने नवंबर 2016 में यह आदेश जारी किया कि सभी सिनेमा हॉलों में ‘‘मातृभूमि के प्रति प्रेम की खातिर’’ हर फिल्म शो के पहले राष्ट्रगान बजाया जाए। इस आदेश से व्यक्तिगत स्वतंत्रता और कानूनी बाध्यताओं के परस्पर संबंधों पर बहस शुरू हो गई है। यह आदेश देश में बढ़ती असहिष्णुता की पृष्ठभूमि में आया है। विचारणीय प्रश्न यह है कि क्या इस तरह की कानूनी बाध्यताओं से लोगों में...
December 16, 2016
Pimpalgaon/Lasalgaon, Nashik (Maharashtra): Prime Minister Narendra Modi would be happy with 26-year-old Deepak Patil, an onion farmer from the village of Valwadi in Malegaon Taluka, about 300 km north of Mumbai, India’s commercial capital. Patil, dressed in a grey jacket, over his white shirt and jeans, said he has a bank account, a cell phone, and receives payment for his onion produce in...
December 15, 2016
In July 2016, Jignesh Mevani, a practising lawyer and activist, battling for access to land for Dalits through Gujarat’s courts –for close to half a decade before that date-- burst onto the national scene, leading the protests in the state after the Una incident when Dalits were brutally beaten, simply because they were performing their work, cleaning and curing of carcasses of dead...
December 15, 2016
President Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday said there may be “unrest and frustration” in the country if youth remains unemployed, while stressing on the need to equip them with skills. Mukherjee said with jobs the young workforce can be an asset. Most graduates produced by colleges and universities are “unemployable”, he said.
“India, with the...
December 15, 2016
Because real economics – and facts – tell a different story.
The term “voodoo economics” entered popular lexicon when George HW Bush derisively used it to describe his presidential opponent Ronald Reagan’s economic policies for the United States of America in 198o. It is also best suited to describe what the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s principal...
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
Meghalaya chief minister Mukul Sangma on Wednesday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of being a “brand ambassador” of corporate houses promoting their businesses through the demonetization exercise.
“I have analysed it (demonetization) and I have seen that the main agenda of this government and the Prime Minister is not to fight corruption or black money or so-called...
December 15, 2016
The saffron outfit is conducting a massive exercise to gather feedback and strategise in poll-bound states.
Image: Sanjay Kanojia/AFP
The initial groundswell of support in Uttar Pradesh for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to invalidate high-denomination notes seems to be on the wane, threatening the prospects of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the state elections next...
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.
Image: IANS
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
नई दिल्ली। जब पीएम मोदी ने देश से कालाधन खत्म करने के नाम पर 500 और 1000 के नोट बंद करने की घोषणा की तो उसके बाद देश में कैश की समस्या खड़ी हो गई। इससे छुटकारा पाने के लिए सरकार ने पेटीएम जैसे ई-वॉलेट का इस्तेमाल करने की सलाह दे डाली। यहां तक की पेटीएम के विज्ञापनों में पीएम मोदी की फोटो का भी प्रयोग किया गया। लेकिन अब पेटीएम के इस्तेमाल पर भी सवाल उठने शुरू हो गए हैं।
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