धार्मिक कट्टरपन
December 21, 2016
The High Court has also started hearing the appeal petitions on daily basis since last Monday, December 19
The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday allowed six victims of the 2002 Naroda Patia massacre to get case papers running into over 1.25 lakh pages free of cost from the registry of the court. Survivors backed by Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP),a Mumbai-based civil rights and legal aid group...
December 21, 2016
IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD
DISTRICT: AHMEDABAD
MISC. CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. OF 2016
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December 21, 2016
A professor of Russian in the Department of Foreign Languages at Shivaji University in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, Megha Pansare ostensibly leads a quiet life. She is the President of the District Council of the National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW) in the state of Maharashtra. She is also a noted activist and the daughter-in-law of Comrade Govind Pansare. But most importantly, a year ago, she...
December 20, 2016
The BJP, never far from using inciteful speech to drum up a Hindu-Muslim divide, especially just prior to any polls, does it again. This time one of it's senior leaders dubbed Muslims as ‘un-patriotic’, BJP MP from West Delhi Parvesh Verma drove the point nastily home. He was reported as having addressed a gathering in Baghpat on Saturday, December 17, stating that Muslims don...
December 20, 2016
बागपत। यूपी चुनाव से पहले भाजपा सांसद प्रवेश वर्मा ने मुसलमानों को लेकर विवादित बयान दिया है। बागपत जिले में एक कार्यक्रम के दौरान उन्होंने कहा कि मुसलमानों ने न तो भाजपा को कभी वोट दिया है और नहीं कभी देंगे। उन्होंने कहा कि अक्सर हर आतंकवादी मुस्लिम होता है। बीजेपी एक राष्ट्रभक्त पार्टी है और यही कारण है कि मुस्लिम समाज बीजेपी को वोट नहीं करता है। वर्मा ने आगे यहां तक कहा कि उन्हें...
December 19, 2016
Babu Bajrangi, the terror behind the 2002 genocidal carnage, already granted temporary parole (bail) eight times since his conviction for conspiracy and murder on August 29, 2012 is pushing to be granted permanent bail from the Gujarat High Court tomorrow. The appeal in the case is being heard before the Gujarat High Court. 32 persons were convicted to life imprisonment in a historic verdict...
December 19, 2016
नई दिल्ली। केंद्र सरकार ने 17 दिसंबर को नए थलसेनाध्यक्ष के रूप में लेफ्टिनेंट जनरल बिपिन रावत के नाम का एलान किया जिसके बाद सरकार लगातार विपक्ष के निशाने पर चल रही है। उन्हें चीफ चुने जाने के लिए कमांड चीफ लेफ्टिनेंट प्रवीण बक्शी और दक्षिणी कमान के आर्मी चीफ लेफ्टिनेंट पीएम हारिज को नजरअंदाज किया गया।
जहां सरकार का कहना है कि बिपिन को मेरिट के आधार पर चुना गया है। वहीं कांग्रेस...
December 18, 2016
Photo Credit: Morung Express
PTI Report: In the wake of heightened tension and violence, parts of Manipur capital Imphal were today brought under indefinite curfew and mobile internet services were snapped at various places to prevent spread of rumours over an alleged attack on a church. The curfew was imposed this noon and covers Porompat and Sawombung subdivisions of Imphal East district,...
December 17, 2016
The Supreme Court was not addressing any larger questions on religion in public space, or how to regulate it.
There has been a bit of a buzz about the Supreme Court judgement in the case of Mohammed Zubair and Aftab Ahmad, servicemen in the Indian Air Force who were discharged from service for sporting beards.
Three things need to be clarified:
First, they sported the beards in...
Writings of French Hindu who worshipped Hitler as an avatar of Vishnu are inspiring the US alt-right
December 17, 2016
Savitri Devi was born Maximiani Portaz in 1905.
South Asian religious traditions have long attracted admirers from the West, but none have been as flamboyant or as dangerous as Maximiani Portaz (1905-1982). This French convert to Hinduism believed that Hitler had been an avatar of Vishnu sent to prepare for the end of the Kali Yuga – the last of the four stages the world goes...