धार्मिक कट्टरपन
November 21, 2016
आजमगढ़ को आतंकवाद से जोड़ा: भाजपा के केशव प्रसाद मौर्य, पुलिस की जांच
आजमगढ़. परिवर्तन यात्रा के दौरान भाजपा प्रदेश अध्यक्ष द्वारा दिये गये बयान से नाराज उलेमा कौंसिल के लोग उनके खिलाफ मुकदमा दर्ज करायेंगे। इस संबंध में कौंसिल द्वारा शनिवार की देर शाम शहर कोतवाली में तहरीर दी है। पुलिस ने तहरीर मिलने के बाद बयान की जांच शुरू कर दी है। अपर पुलिस अधीक्षक नगर ने कहा कि जांच के बाद...
November 20, 2016
जेएनयू के प्रॉक्टर की जांच में एबीवीपी कार्यकर्ता विक्रांत कुमार विश्वविद्यालय परिसर में हुए एक हंगामे के दौरान नजीब अहमद पर हमला करने के दोषी पाए गए हैं।
इस घटना के बाद नजीब एक महीने से भी अधिक समय से लापता है। उत्तर प्रदेश के बदायूं का रहने वाला नजीब (27) जेएनयू में स्कूल ऑफ बायोटेक्नोलॉजी का छात्र है और वह विश्वविद्यालय परिसर में विक्रांत सहित एबीवीपी के कार्यकर्ताओं के साथ हुई कथित...
November 20, 2016
My religion is nobody else’s business, says CJI Thakur
PTI Reports:
The relationship between man and God is “very personal” and should be “nobody else’s business”, Chief Justice of India T S Thakur said today as he stressed on tolerance for peace in society.
More lives have been lost in religious wars than due to political ideologies,...
November 19, 2016
Anyone joining the Trump administration would have to leave their personal views behind and implement the vision and ideas of the President-elect, a top transition team member has said.
“Regardless of someone, whether it is a staff member appointed or nominated or intended to be nominated, one of the things that always has to be remembered is that everybody who serves in a Trump...
November 19, 2016
Criticising this practice which appeared to have been adopted in the controversial and sensitive Naroda Patia massacre case of the 2002 riots, to possibly deliberately engage an advocate who is a distant relative of Justice Akil Kureshi, the division bench of Kureshi and Justice Biren Vaishnav observed that instead of requesting the judge not to hear the case, the senior counsel should have...
November 19, 2016
Earlier this year, Honourable Prime Minister Narendra Modi decided that the PMO website , www.pmindia.gov.in should be made multilingual in order to effectively highlight various initiatives of the government.
Previously it was available only in English and Hindi. In May 2016, Minister of External Affairs, Sushma Swaraj launched 6 language versions of PMO
India’s website viz. in...
November 19, 2016
A powerful statement of solidarity between concerned Indians, Hindu and Muslim, South Asian Americans and others against the growing Islamophobia manifest in the United States after the Donald Trump victory has been issued.
The text of the Solidarity Statement:
We issue this statement as concerned Hindus, South Asian Americans, and members of the AMEMSA (Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim,...
November 19, 2016
On November 16, Teesta Setalvad was invited to deliver the K.G.Kannabiran Memorial Lecture in Madurai by the People’s Union for Civil Liberties(PUCL).
The full text of the lecture cam be read here.
Excerpts
Land Acquisition, Forest Rights Act and Labour Laws
Apart from this assault on civil and political liberties, this regime –coming to power as it did backed by...
November 19, 2016
An influential South-Asian rights group has terminated its ties with a major US airlines alleging that it was carrying out racial and religious profiling of Muslims, Arab and South-Asian passengers on its flights reports PTI.
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"Southwest (Airlines) employees have been racially profiling Muslim, Arab, and South Asian passengers in the last year, including at least...
November 19, 2016
Amid chants of "Allahu akbar", huge and angry crowds gathered outside the Supreme Court in Mauritania on Tuesday demanding the execution of a man who complained about religion being used to justify social discrimination.
Demonstrators outside the Supreme Court. The banner says: ""We demand the execution of Ould Mkhaitir immediately".
In December 2013 engineer...