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December 6, 2016
If the Khadki Ordnance Factory (OFK) is not manufacturing the anti-riot weapon called "pellet guns, where are law enforcement agencies, particularly the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in J&K, buying these pellet guns from?     Terror financing seems to be alive despite demonetisation/remonetisation drive The security forces are reported to have told the...
December 6, 2016
Pramod sells a rare commodity – blood. Paid “blood donation” may have been banned in India by a 1996 Supreme Court ruling, but touts like him are a common sight in hospitals across India. Pramod met this reporter at a tea stall next to Gate No 1 of the All India Institute of Medical Science in south Delhi. Dressed in a shabby black shirt and a pair of track-pants, the...
December 5, 2016
The gangrape and after, the battle for justice has been long and lonely. The  victim has had to leave home, her husband has lost his job. Their only hope is justice will be swift and exemplary The memories haunt her daily.  “Din raat bas dimaag mein wahi chalta rehta hai, har waqt dar lagta rehta hai (I keep thinking about it all day, I feel scared all the time)....
December 5, 2016
The  moot question remains: when will the government and society stop hiring people for such dangerous and demeaning work of cleaning septic tanks and manholes? Representation Image  Activist Parsottam Vaghela has successively, after a month’s effort, on the late night of December 3, one month and three days after 3 sanitation workers died due to poisonous gas while...
December 5, 2016
As the Rabi sowing grinds down; and the sales of tractors and two-wheelers dip all over; Cauliflower prices in Maharashtra fall from Rs 80,000 fall to Rs 6,000   The demonetisation of high-value currency notes seems to have crushed the tender green shoots of economic recovery in rural India by choking off life-sustaining money supply and impeding the wheels of commerce from spinning....
December 5, 2016
The Obama Administration  and Army Corps of Engineers have officially denied the easement to cross under Lake Oahe -- halting the Dakota Access Pipeline -- thanks to the hard work and dedication of the brave water protectors! #NoDAPL — with Maureen Martens Cruz Hauprich.   Sabrangindia has been reporting this struggle consistently especially when iconic...
December 5, 2016
Fresher beaten up, tonsured; vice chancellor rusticates PG trio Victim Gautam Kumar (right) reports the incident to police in Ranchi on Sunday. Telegraph picture The Telegraph reports that a first-year student of Birsa Agricultural University (BAU), Kanke, was allegedly ragged for 12 hours from last night at a hostel room, prompting the expulsion of three postgraduate students late last...
December 5, 2016
Dalits and Adivasis are worst hot by this foolish move and will never forgive the BJP for it The stories of devastation and deaths caused by prime minister Modi’s decision to demonetize 500 and 1000 rupee currency notes are pouring in from all over the country. In a country where 97% of all transactions by volume are done in cash, summary demonetization of its 86.4% currency value...
December 5, 2016
देश में भाषा के लिहाज से हिन्दी भाषी क्षेत्र सबसे बड़ा है। हिन्दी की पत्र-पत्रिकाओं की कश्मीर के बारे में आम जन मानस के बीच एक तरह की राय बनाने में सर्वाधिक भूमिका मानी जाती है।मीडिया स्टडीज ग्रुप ने हिन्दी पत्रकारिता के जरिये कश्मीर की एक खास तरह की छवि बनाने की पृष्ठभूमि का अध्ययन करने की एक योजना तैयार की। हिन्दी पत्रकारिता में सक्रिय पत्रकारों के बीच एक सर्वेक्षण किया गया जिसमें कश्मीर के...
December 3, 2016
कल झारखंड के संपुर्ण विपक्ष द्वारा सीएनटी एसपीटी एक्ट संशोधन के विरोध में सरकार के खिलाफ शांति पुर्वक झारखंड बंद CNT act-SPT act संशोधन का सच इस एक्ट की धारा-71A में चालाकी की गयी है। अब कोई उद्योगपति यदि चाहे तो कहीं की भी जमीन सरकारी रेट पर सरकार से सीधे खरीद सकेगा। पहले उस उद्योगपति को झारखंडी जमीन मालिक से और ग्राम प्रधान से बात कर सौदा तय करना होता था। जाहिर है कि सभी रैयत उनकी शर्तों...