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November 9, 2016
Poor implementation of the law against sex selective abortion, the Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act of 1994 remains a pressing problem in the country, ruled the Supreme Court
The selective abortion of female foetuses is a social ill of huge dimensions and the pervasive prenatal sex determination tests a means used for this selective action. A Bench of...
November 9, 2016
The 5-member group of “concerned citizens” led by BJP leader Yashwant Sinha has submitted its findings to the Home Ministry in Delhi. This report has been released to the media too, not however receiving the coverage it deserves. The group had visited Kashmir on October 25 for three days during which it met various people from across Kashmir’s ideological divide.
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November 9, 2016
Demonetization of currency notes by the Modi Govt on November 8
Narendra Modi went on national television at 8 p.m. on November 8 to announce that from midnight of that very date, i.e. in a mere four hours’ time, 500 and 1000 rupee notes would cease to be legal-tender. The justification advanced for this bizarre move was that it would strike at “black money”. An additional...
November 9, 2016
BJP’s much-publicised parivartan yatra, which was flagged off by Amit Shah two days ago, has become a topic of intense conversation on social media platforms because of association of bar dancers.
The video of bar dancer being used to woo the voters has gone viral on Twitter and Facebook.
On Monday, the yatra (road show) reached Tugana in Bagpat area of Uttar Pradesh. Senior party...
November 9, 2016
Is the government really blameless for the crisis of credibility faced by the media?
On March 18, 2002, when the Gujarat violence had been dragging on more than a fortnight after its outbreak, then chief minister of the state, Narendra Modi, wrote letters of appreciation to over a dozen Gujarati newspapers for their coverage.
He was “grateful” to each of those...
November 9, 2016
नई दिल्ली। दिवाली के बाद से दिल्ली और इसके आस-पास के इलाकों में छाई धुंध ने आम जनजीवन को इतना ज्यादा परेशान किया कि लोगों का जीना दूभर हो गया है। कुछ लोग इसका कारण दिवाली पर जले हुए पटाखों को मान रहे हैं तो दिल्ली सरकार ने इसे पड़ोसी राज्यों में पराल जलाने की वजह मान रही है।
जहां एक तरफ एनजीटी और हाईकोर्ट इस धुंध को साफ करने के लिए जतन करने में जुटे हैं। वहीं राष्ट्रीय स्वयं सेवक संघ और...
November 9, 2016
दुनिया के सबसे बड़े लोकतंत्र भारत में मंगलवार को केंद्र सरकार ने सनसनीखेज कार्यवाई करते हुए हजार और पांच सौ के नोटों पर तत्काल रोक लगा दी। आज से पांच सौ और हजार के नोटों का इस्तेमाल लगभग गैर क़ानूनी हो जाएगा। इस निर्णय के लिए देश के प्रधानमंत्री को खुद जनता के सामने आना पड़ा। कम से काम मेरी यादाश्त में ये इस तरह रातों-रात निर्णय लेने का ये पहला वाकया है। किसी भी देश की मुद्रा उस...
November 8, 2016
Delhi University (DU) professor Nandini Sundar, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) professor Archana Prasad and eight others were booked on Saturday for the alleged murder of a tribal villager in conflict-ridden Sukma district of Chhattisgarh.
Prof Archana Prasad. Image credit: Youtube
Police said 10 persons have been booked under sections 120 B (criminal conspiracy), 302 (murder),...
November 8, 2016
From the ‘Hindu exodus’ in July, to the ‘Surgical Strikes’ in September, to sympathetic noises for Muslim women over ‘triple talaq’ and now vows to end ‘illegal mining’, the BJP appears unsure of what to actually make its poll plank for the forthcoming state assembly polls. Or is simply testing pre-election poll waters as alignments and re-...
November 8, 2016
Dismissing BJP president Amit Shah’s claim of having the only ‘goon-free’ party, Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Monday said that the BJP has “many notorious goons” and the list starts “from Gujarat”, reported The Indian Express.
Image credit: Livemint
Ahead of Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, Shah spoke on Sunday at BJP...