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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
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...
November 19, 2016
'The presidency is about many things,' groups declare in letter to president-elect. 'Chiefly, it is about setting an example through your leadership.'
President-elect Donald Trump "must repent, take responsibility, and challenge those who have been emboldened by his words, and he must also change the direction of his policies that undermine the cause of justice and civil...
November 18, 2016
नयी दिल्ली, 17 नवंबर :भाषा: जेएनयू छात्र नजीब अहमद की रहस्यमय गुमशुदगी को लेकर दिल्ली पुलिस की जांच अवरूद्ध हो गयी है क्योंकि जामिया मिल्लिया इस्लामिया विश्वविद्यालय का प्रशासन कथित रूप से जांच में सहयोग नहीं कर रहा। नजीब को आखिरी बार जामिया में ही देखने का दावा किया गया है।
कल अपराध शाखा की टीम ने खुलासा किया कि उन्होंने उस ऑटो चालक का पता लगा लिया है जिसने नजीब को जामिया पहुंचाने की...
November 18, 2016
Please says Agriculture Minister; NO says Finance
There is a battle afoot between the centre’s ministry of agriculture and ministry of finance. And shockingly, though not surprisingly, the Department of Economic Affairs has cited the surge of deposits in Jan Dhan accounts to counter Agriculture’s request for allowing demonetised currencies for seed purchase reports Indian...
November 18, 2016
Narendra Modi came in to power with bombastic promises of employment and development. But, today the government’s own data shows that unemployment, particularly among youth, is increasing alarmingly under Mr. Modi’s tenure. According Labour Bureau, unemployment rate among the graduate youth (18 to 29 years) increased from 28%, which already high, to 35% between 2014 and 2015....
November 18, 2016
Kurdish women in one of the strongest and most radical women’s movements in the world are taking a battering from the Turkish state with impunity - as Europe looks the other way
Ayla Akat Ata, spokeswoman of Free Women’s Congress (KJA), 8th March celebration 2014 when she was still an MP.
‘’We will resist and resist until we win!“ chants Sebahat...
November 18, 2016
The government’s demonestisation has devastated farmers, landless labourers, pensioners, petty traders and many others across Maharashtra.
In Chikalthana village, on the edge of and merging with Aurangabad town in Maharashtra, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s dream of a cashless economy seems to have been realised. Nobody has any cash. Not the banks, nor the ATMs and certainly...
November 17, 2016
The year 2014 marked the end of water woes for 56-year-old Mahaveer Singh, a fruit and vegetable farmer from Thumbo ka Golia, a village in Jalore district, in southwest Rajasthan. In 2015, Singh’s income grew 40% over his 2013 income, as he switched to growing vegetables and fruits from castor oil, helped by the bountiful monsoon which raised the water level in his well by 9.14 ft, almost...