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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.
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When the police officers in...
October 22, 2016
झारखंड में आरएसएस आदिवासियों और किसानों की जमीन जबरन छीने जाने के प्रावधान वाले एसपीटी-सीएनटी अध्यादेश के विरोध में एकजुट हो रहे आदिवासियों को गुमराह करके, अल्पसंख्यकों के खिलाफ भड़काने में लगा हुआ है। संघ की नीति गुजरात की तरह यहाँ भी आदिवासियों को अल्पसंख्यकों से लड़वाकर अपनी राजनीति सेंकने की दिख रही है।
आदिवासियों और पिछड़ों की एकजुटता से परेशान संघ ने आदिवासियों में बेहद सम्मानित सिदो...
October 22, 2016
On 20th October a demonstration was held at Arts Faculty in north campus of Delhi University. Attended by more than a hundred students from universities all across Delhi and outside, predominantly women, it was a protest against the members of the political outfit ABVP for their alleged harassment of the students on 23rd September night, when the group had organized a Night March. On the...
October 22, 2016
Following is the text of a letter to the Vice Chancellor, Central University of Haryana, sent by some academics protesting the attacks on Dr Snehsata Manav and Dr Manoj Kumar regarding the students’ production of the play ‘Draupadi’:
To the Vice Chancellor,
Central University of Haryana
Dear Vice Chancellor:
We write in support of Dr. Snehsata...
October 21, 2016
The JNU student Najeeb Ahmed continues to be untraceable days after he went missing under mysterious circumstances. Najeeb’s friends alleged that he had disappeared soon after his altercation with some ABVP students.
Najeeb’s mother on Friday made a desperate plea saying that she wanted her son back as she alleged that the administration had been “insensitive”...
October 21, 2016
The Self reliance of Made in India VS the neoliberal sweatshops of Make in India
Fake nationalism of the Hindutva variety is not limited to only the national movement, where the RSS was conspicuous by its absence. It is also manifested in Modi's Make in India, which is an offer to global capital to exploit India's cheap labour, along with various tax breaks and subsidised...
October 21, 2016
It is time for the Muslim community to introspect on how things have come to such a pass. Practices like triple talaq, halala and polygamy, steeped in patriarchal and medieval narratives, can hardly be regarded as just and fair.
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In the background of a bunch of writ petitions filed before the Supreme Court by some Muslim women’s organisations and individual victims...
Ahead of US poll, Hindu American group sends booklet on Hinduism to candidates – and a questionnaire
October 21, 2016
The advocacy group wants to help voters make an 'informed choice' in the November 8 US elections, it said.
What is the red dot that many Hindu women wear on their forehead? Do Hindus have Commandments? What is the meaning of the swastika?
The answer to these and other such queries are part of the booklet titled More Answers to Real Questions about Hinduism, educational material...
October 20, 2016
When the US pulled out of Vietnam it was at least clear who would take over. The same can't be said of Yemen which, for most purposes, is now a failed state and likely to remain so for a long time.
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On October 16, the United States, Britain and the UN's special envoy issued a joint call for a rapid and unconditional ceasefire in Yemen.
"We are...
October 20, 2016
While upholding the conviction of 17 convicts, Gujarat High Court acquitted on Thursday remaining 14 convicts in Sardarpura massacre case of 2002.
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Out of the 62 accused in the massacre that was probed by a Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team, 31 were convicted for life imprisonment and the remaining had pleaded not guilty in the special court...