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November 10, 2016
बुलंदशहर। पीएम मोदी के पांच सौ और हजार के नोट बंद करने के फैसले ने देश में कई जगह कई लोगों की जानें ले ली। जहां एक तरफ पीएम मोदी ने देश के सभी अस्पतालों को नोट लेने का आदेश दिया था वहीं उनके ही मंत्री के अस्पताल ने नोट लेने से इंकार कर दिया जिसकी वजह से एक नवजात बच्ची की मौत हो गई। एक दिन पहले ही एक वृद्धा ने नोट न चलने की खबर से हार्ट अटैक से दम तोड़ दिया था। यूपी के खुर्जा के एक...
November 10, 2016
नई दिल्ली। नोट बंद होने का असर लोगों की आम जरूरतों पर भयंकर तरीके से प्रभावी हो रहा है। मध्यप्रदेश के बुंदेलखंड में 1000 और 500 के नोट बंद होने से एक महिला की अंत्येष्टि नहीं हो पा रही। छतरपुर जिले के मातवान मोहल्ला में रहने वाली 70 साल की राजबाई की मंगलवार (8 नवंबर) को बीमारी के चलते मौत हो गई थी। लेकिन अब उनका अंतिम संस्कार होने में परेशानी आ रही है।
अंतिम संस्कार न होने की मुख्य...
November 10, 2016
Contextualizing the Secular Fabric of India and Section 123 of RP Act
The shadow of a sinister ghost lurks over the Indian polity. Opportunistic, even supremacist notions of society are being articulated by major political players and their parties, programmes and manifestos, all working decidedly against the rich tradition of India’s pluralism by narrowly using our religious and caste...
November 10, 2016
Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi alleging a secret deal behind demonetisation announcement with e-commerce company Paytm.
He tweeted, “Paytm biggest beneficiary of PM’s announcement. Next day PM appears in its ads. Whats the deal, Mr PM?”
Kejriwal was responding to a news carried by Aaj Tak website, whose...
November 10, 2016
The right is on the move—in Britain, Hungary, Austria, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, India and now, far more importantly than any of those, in the United States. If Marine Le Pen can win in France in 2017 then fascism will truly have arrived, just seventy years after we assumed it had been banished for good.
Press Association Images/Paco Anselmi: Donald Trump as he makes his...
November 10, 2016
Today, medieval India is seen as a place of eternal religious conflict. But that view is more due to modern-day politics than the actual events of history.
Image credit: Scroll.in
In 1940, as Mahomed Ali Jinnah laid out his vision of the Two Nation Theory in Lahore, he argued that Hindus and Muslims in the subcontinent have separate pasts. “It is quite clear,” said the soon-to-...
November 10, 2016
The new nativism thrives off the failures of neoliberalism. We have entered a dangerous era of anti-liberalism.
Image credit: Business Insider
A few thoughts on the causes and consequences of Trump’s victory:
- Bill Clinton’s legacy may have cost Hillary the election. It’s now clear that NAFTA, the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act to regulate banking, and the...
November 10, 2016
Ten months after the Delhi government accepted an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) study that it had commissioned on the city’s air pollution, key recommendations remain unimplemented. Instead, a government minister has put out a social-media petition requesting suggestions from citizens.
A woman wears a mask to protect herself from the pollution during a protest in Delhi. An Aam...
November 9, 2016
An online petition demanding withdrawal of charges pressed against the academicians and activists by Chhattisgarh police in the case of murder of a tribal villager, has been receiving support not just from India, but also from parts of world like South Africa, UK and USA.
Prof Nandini Sundar
The petition, uploaded by Prof Aparna Sundar addressed to the president, prime minister and...
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-...