राजनीती
October 19, 2016
मुख्यमंत्री शिवराज सिंह चौहान दावा करते हैं कि मध्य प्रदेश अब बीमारू राज्य नहीं रहा। उनका दावा केवल इस मायने में सही कहा जा सकता है कि मध्य प्रदेश अब बीमारू राज्य से भी निचले किसी ऐसे स्तर पर पहुँच चुका है, जिसके लिए फिलहाल कोई विशेषण चुना नहीं गया है। मिसाल इसकी स्वास्थ्य सेवाएँ और अस्पताल हैं।
बात करते हैं शहडोल की जहाँ सांसद दलपत सिंह परस्ते के निधन के बाद लोकसभा सीट पर उपचुनाव...
October 19, 2016
क्या अपना घर बिक जाने पर किसी को गर्व करना चाहिए? वो भी तब, जब कर्ज चुकाने के दबाव में घर बेचना पड़ा हो? चलिए गर्व न सही, क्या अपना घर खरीदने वाले को आप निवेशक कह सकते हैं? कारोबार की ऐसी उलटबांसी आज देश के बड़े अख़बारों में पूरे पन्ने के विज्ञापन के रूप में प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्रभाई मोदी और व्लादीमिर पुतिन की तस्वीरों के साथ प्रकाशित हुई है जिसमें बताया गया है कि एस्...
October 19, 2016
Challenging the reinstatement of retired police officers accused in alleged fake encounter cases in Gujarat, former IPS officer Rahul Sharma has filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Gujarat High Court.
Rahul Sharma. Image: Indian Express
Earlier this month, Gujarat government reappointed police officer Tarun Barot almost two years after his retirement and granted...
October 19, 2016
After MNS, Telangana BJP MLA Raja Singh has opposed screening of upcoming Bollywood film “Ae Dil Hai Mushkil”, starring Pakistani actor Fawad Khan.
Photo: News 18
Singh threatened that he would “attack” theatres in entire Telangana, starting from his constituency Goshamahal, if the film is screened there.
“My idea is that a message should go to Pakistan in...
October 19, 2016
छत्तीसगढ़ में वन विभाग के पौधारोपण अभियान के तहत बाँटें गए करोड़ों रुपए खर्च हो गए और अब कोई अधिकारी ये तक बता पाने की स्थिति में नहीं है कि आखिर जो पौधे लगाए गए थे, वो गए कहाँ? पौधे कहाँ लगाए गए, ये भी अफसरों को पता नहीं है।
राजधानी सहित पूरे राज्य में इस साल बारिश के दौरान पौधारोपण के लिए वन मुख्यालय ने सभी जिलों को कुल मिलाकर 23 करोड़ रुपए बांटे थे। अभियान खत्म हुए लगभग दो महीने बीत चुके...
October 19, 2016
Do recent mass protests by Paraguayan students represent the beginning of a political awakening?
Image: La Chispa
University students are making history in Paraguay in what is being dubbed La Primavera Estudiantil, or Student Spring. Over the last weeks, students and their allies mobilized one of the largest protest movements in the country’s history, demanding democratic...
October 19, 2016
Justice H Suresh (Retd.) analyses crucial judgements of the Supreme Court of India
The Supreme Court (Varma J) in the case of Dr Ramesh Yeshwant Prabhoo (1995 (7) SCALE 1) held Dr Prabhoo and Bal Thackeray guilty of corrupt practice having appealed for votes on the ground of religion (Hindu religion) u/s. 123 (3) of the Representation of People Act, 1951. However, in the next judgement (1995 (...
October 18, 2016
Hearing of the final court appeal of Asia Bibi – accused of blasphemy, in the Pakistan Supreme Court was indefinitely adjourned on October 13, 2016 after one of the judges pulled out of the three-member bench hearing the appeal. As per the media reports, the judiciary is under tremendous pressure from the hardline religious groups who want to ensure execution of “blasphemous”...
October 18, 2016
Amidst a virtual media blackout at the happenings on the JNU campus, an ugly incident involving an undergraduate Muslim student of the prestigious central university points to grave allegations of communal profiling and targeting, with the administration playing silent spectator
Around 500 students assembled at Ganga Dhaba last night in response to the call by the Jawaharlal Nehru Students...
October 18, 2016
A North Dakota judge today refused to authorise riot charges against award-winning journalist Amy Goodman for her reporting on an attack against Native American-led anti-pipeline protesters.
Image: Makers
“This is a complete vindication of my right as a journalist to cover the attack on the protesters, and of the public’s right to know what is happening with the Dakota Access...