राजनीती

November 12, 2016
The right has destroyed the left and stolen its language, using it as a decoy with which to push through policies that hurt the poorest. The left must reclaim its ideology, not allow it to be co-opted by the right Donald Trump, by Gage Skidmore Trump’s election was a tragedy. But the outrage is its reframing – by the mainstream media and even sections of the left – as a...
November 12, 2016
अमर उजाला ने शिमला के चिंतपूर्णी मंदिर में चढ़ावे के काले धन को सफेद करने के खेल का पर्दाफाश किया है। अमर उजाला के पास एक ऑडियो क्लिप है, जिसमें  मंदिर का अधिकारी बैंक वालों से 1000 और 500 के नोटों के बदले छोटी करेंसी में बदलने की बात कर रहा है। पैसे एक्सचेंज के लिए मंदिर अधिकारी बाकायदा चढ़ावे की नई लिस्ट भी तैयार कर रहा था। लेकिन मंदिर के एक कर्मचारी ने इसका विरोध किया और मामला पुलिस और...
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 12, 2016
“We are the people who were beaten and whose houses were burnt to ashes after being looted to the last valuables. We were shot and wounded critically. And now they have handcuffed my ailing husband and tied a rope around his waist – what kind of justice is this?” Charan Soren, one of the victims in November 6 attack on his village in Gaibandha, was spotted lying in a...
November 12, 2016
Datum 1: Bank branches increased at 5% per year, but automated teller machines (ATMs), debit cards and card-swiping machines have doubled in four years and online transactions have grown 20 times in six years to 2016, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) data show, a process likely to be greatly boosted by demonetisation.   Datum 2: Currency in denominations of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 increased 50...
November 12, 2016
A three-day training camp of the Rashtra Sevika Samiti opens in Delhi with talk of matri shakti – but only within the confines of a family.   For a snapshot of how the all-male Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has kept its women’s wing relegated to a domestic role and away from all issues of gender justice, visit the three-day training camp of the Rashtra Sevika Samiti, which was...
November 11, 2016
ज़ी न्यूज़ के संपादक सुधीर चौधरी प्रतिष्ठित रामनाथ गोयनका सम्मान से सम्मानित हैं। तमाम लोग चाहे उन्हें उगाहीबाज़ी के आरोप में तिहाड़ की हवा खाने वाले संपादक बतौर जानते हों, लेकिन इसमें शक़ नहीं कि वे कई मीडिया संस्थानों में काम कर चुके अनुभवी पत्रकार हैं। उनकी गणना देश के शीर्ष ''राष्ट्रवादी' पत्रकारों में होती है जो आये दिन पाकिस्तान और आतंकियों से मोर्चा लेता रहता है। देश के...
November 11, 2016
Responding to the US president elect’s offer to mediate between India and Pakistan to help solve the Kashmir dispute, Pakistan Foreign Office (FO) spokesman Nafees Zakaria said on Thursday that Trump’s offer is ‘welcome’, reported Dawn. This comment coming two days after Trump’s victory was a response to an offer made by the Us president elect about a...
November 11, 2016
Days after the murder of a villager in Chhattisgarh's Maoist-hit Bastar, the police cited his wife's complaint to name Delhi University professor Nandini Sundar and Jawaharlal Nehru University's Archana Prasad as murder suspects. Sitting in her home at a village around 400 km from Raipur, Shamnath Baghel's wife Vimla told NDTV that she didn't name Nandini Sundar or...
November 11, 2016
How secret then was Modi’s ‘surgical strike’ against black money and terrorism? Clearly there was sufficient prior information about the proposed demonetisation to find a ripple in the media.  Read the Jagran Report, dated October 27, 2016, here: अब आएगा दो हजार का नोट, पहले जारी हो चुका दस हजार का नोट 27 अक्टूबर 2016 00:50 AM कानपुर (बृजेश दुबे)। केंद्र सरकार...