हक़ और आजादी
December 22, 2016
The Ashram Road Ahmedabad District Co-operative bank reportedly got a whopping Rs 500 crore deposit, just after the notes ban; the bank has BJP President as Director. ED and IT officials conducted a 6-hour long raid on December 19
Reportedly, three days after the announcement of demonitisation, that is between November 8 and 12, 2016. a co-operative bank of which BJP President Amit Shah is...
December 21, 2016
Following the Delhi High Court’s decisions, the Delhi Police has been searching the campus of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus, 65 days after the disappearance of post graduate student, Najeeb Ahmad. The police, eager to police JNU has been combing all hostels, schools, the central library, the forests and...
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
I-T department raids BJP leader Sushil Waswani for allegedly laundering huge sums of black money
The raid was simultaneously conducted at 12 different locations in Bhopal on Tuesday, December 20, that includes his house in the Bairagarh township and the three hotels he owns in various parts of Bhopal.
Sushil Vaswani, the BJP leader has been raided by the Income Tax department in Bhopal for...
December 21, 2016
Delivering the 8th Anuradha Gandhy Memorial Lecture, titled Black Lives, Dalits Lives: Histories and Solidarities to a rapt and considerable audience at the KC College auditorium in south Mumbai, Ms Davis spoke passionately about the moments of promise and solidarities between the Dalit and Adivasi movements in India and the Black resistance in the United States.
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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 21, 2016
Mount Abu, Rajasthan: I wouldn’t be around to write this story if the Bahri clan I hail from—Hindus from Punjab, Pakistan—had not stopped practising female infanticide in the early 1900s, with my grandparents’ generation. But a century on, the practice appears to have hit an all-time high.
Netra Jangam, 24, from the village of Gove in Satara district, south-central...
December 20, 2016
While the Dalit upsurge in Una in Gujarat received widespread attention, an atrocity against Dalit youths being thrashed in Muzaffarpur, Bihar at the same time did not. It remained merely a Paswan versus Bhumihar confrontation. Dalits remain a differentiated group in Bihar, and have a long way to go before the community can rise above the imperatives of the here and now and assert as a...
December 20, 2016
Executions being used to Silence Dissidents;over 40 civilians executed in one day on terrorism charges in January alone, says Justice Crucified: The Death Penalty in Saudi Arabia, a report released by Repreive, a human rights group based in the United Kingdom.
Saudi Arabia will have executed at least 150 people by the end of 2016, for the second year in a row, according to research...