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October 24, 2016
नई दिल्ली| अपनी फिसलती जुबान के लिए मशहूर केंद्रीय मंत्री गिरिराज सिंह, आये दिन नए-नए विवादित बयान देकर खोखली लोकप्रियता बटोरते रहते हैं। गिरिराज सिंह बिहार के नवादा से सांसद हैं मगर जनता के बीच इनकी पहचान इनके काम की वजह से नहीं बल्कि इनके विवादित बयान की वजह से हैं।
उत्तर प्रदेश (यूपी) के सहारनपुर जिले में एक सभा को संबोधित करते हुए गिरिराज सिंह ने एक बार फिर विवादित बयान दे दिया...
October 24, 2016
First Published on: October 7, 2016
KPSS Appeals to both Prime Minister Modi and HM Rajnath Singh to immediately extent the financial rehabilitation package recommended by the Parliamentary Standing Committee to the Rajya Sabha in 2009 and then again, in 2014.
Kashmiri Pandits Image for representation purpose only...
October 24, 2016
We have a telecom sector that has been saddled with a very poor quality of service that is affecting the consumers.
The government is in a complete denial on its spectrum auction fiasco. Only Rs. 65,000 crore worth of spectrum – or 11.6% of the expected price of 5.6 lakh crore – on the block was sold. Out of this, the government would get only Rs. 32,000 crore this year,...
October 24, 2016
आरएसएस के सहयोगी संगठन शिक्षा संस्कृति उत्थान न्यास ने मानव संसाधन मंत्रालय को अपनी रिपोर्ट में अंग्रेजी में शिक्षा देने की व्यवस्था खत्म करने की सिफारिश की है। उसकी यह सिफारिश दलितों और हाशिये के समुदायों को और पीछे धकेलने की कोशिश है।
आरएसएस के एक सहयोगी संगठन ने अंग्रेजी माध्यम से पढ़ाई खत्म करने की सिफारिश की है। देश भर के दलित स्कॉलर्स और कार्यकर्ताओं ने संघ के इस कदम का कड़ा विरोध...
October 24, 2016
As India and Pakistan blame one another for the violence in Kashmir, the situation remains at an impasse. The only way forward is reform, dialogue, and level-headed policy.
Image: Kashmir Global/Flickr
As violence escalates between Indian police and Kashmir’s pro-independence protestors, the international community remains silent. Soon this silence threatens to become as...
October 24, 2016
Agitating JNU students today formed a human chain from the administrative block to the Vice-Chancellor’s residence to protest the university administration’s “inaction” in tracing a missing student of the varsity.
A student of School of Biotechnology, Najeeb Ahmed, allegedly went missing on last Saturday following a brawl on the campus allegedly with members of ABVP...
October 24, 2016
Some Summations from India’s Partition Story
My engagement with partition and separatism is largely confined, I must confess, to South Asia, where I have studied the India/Pakistan question, the break-up of Pakistan into two, and the Sinhala/Tamil issue in Sri Lanka.
In my research I have focused also on India’s freedom movement, the movement for Pakistan, and the...
October 24, 2016
Ever since the present Modi government came to power, there appears to have been a clear set of orders issued from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) headquarters to its student organization, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), to go on the rampage in university campuses all over India. From getting specific parts of syllabuses changed under threat of violence, disrupting events by...
October 22, 2016
On the afternoon of Friday, August 5, 2016, reports started coming in that the Bajrang Dal activists looted and burnt shops owned by Muslims in the town of Chhapra, the district headquarters of Saran in North Bihar. One of the shops happened to have been owned by Balaghul Mobin of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) – the dominant ruling alliance.
Image: Rediff
When the police officers in...
October 22, 2016
As the dust surrounding the issue of abolition of triple talaq and reform in Islam refuses to settle, another altercation took place on Friday in Govandi, (Mumbai), where local women running a signature campaign against the controversial practice of instant divorce were allegedly ill-treated and abused verbally by some of the locals.
Representational Image: Indiatimes
Women activists from...