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November 2, 2016
An ex-serviceman allegedly committed suicide over the issue of One Rank One Pension scheme (OROP) at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, police said on Wednesday.
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The 70-year-old ex-serviceman Ram Kishan Grewal committed suicide by consuming poison at a park in New Delhi area yesterday evening.
Police said he along with some other ex-servicemen was in the process of submitting...
November 2, 2016
Right-wing movements are repackaging ideas from white nationalism into a new, more middle-class culture by using the strategies and language of the left (4,500 words).
This article first appeared in Waging Nonviolence.
A Trump supporter at an April PSU Students for Trump event. Credit: WNV/ Shane Burley. All rights reserved.
A murmur began in May around Berkeley and the surrounding...
November 1, 2016
November 3, 2016
2-6 pm
Speaker's Hall, Constitution Club, Rafi Marg, New Delhi-110001
speakers
ALI JAVED- PWA
ANNIE RAJA-NFIW
ARIF MOHD KHAN- POLITICIAN, SOCIAL ACTIVIST
FARIDA KHAN-PEHCHAN
GAUHAR RAZA-SCIENTIST, FILMMAKER, POET
JAVED NAQVI- JOURNALIST
KAVITA KRISHNAN- CPI( ML), AIPWA
MAIMOONA MOLLAH-AIDWA
OVAIS SULTAN KHAN-ANHAD
RAZA HAIDER-SIKSHA
S IRFAN HABIB-...
November 1, 2016
Rural employment scheme MNREGA is facing shortage of funds despite the highest ever budgetary allocation to the programme this year, and the Rural Development Ministry is now seeking an additional Rs 10,000 crore for its smooth functioning.
“In the budget about Rs 43,499 crore was allocated for Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) this year, out of which Rs...
November 1, 2016
Just when you thought sexism was a thing of the past, revelations about Donald Trump bragging about groping women hit the news. Yet only 13%of female Republicans think he should stop campaigning for the presidency. While women generally favour his Democratic rival Hilary Clinton, 49% of them rate her unfavourably. Despite her life-long commitment to public service, she is...
November 1, 2016
The death of every other newborn in India can be traced to either low birth weight (LBW) or premature delivery–a reflection of poor maternal health and an inadequate healthcare system–according to an IndiaSpend analysis of census data.
A health worker weighs an infant at a hospital in Agartala, Tripura. Of all infants in India who died before they completed 29 days post...
October 31, 2016
Police have filed two cases against more than 1,000 people over Sunday’s attack on temples and homes of the Hindu community in Nasirnagar of Brahmanbaria
An unruly mob of hundreds of people armed with locally-made weapons demolished at least 10 temples to the ground along with vandalising hundreds of houses of the Hindu community at Brahminbaria‘s Nasirnagar upazila on Sunday...
October 31, 2016
Despite stringent laws and awareness campaigns, as many as 910 cases of rape have been reported in Kerala in the first six months of this year, giving an indication of continuing atrocities against women in the state.
A total of 7,909 cases of crimes against women were reported across the state upto July, according to state police’s crime statistics.
Of them, 2332 were cases of...
October 31, 2016
The Indian political leadership and a section of the intelligentsia have been hysterical over the death of 19 soldiers in a recent attack on an army base in Kashmir. The September 18 attack that also left four militants dead has been blamed on Pakistan-based terror groups. The Indian government continues to claim that the insurgents fighting for the right to self-determination in Kashmir are...
October 31, 2016
Soni Sori, a human rights defender and an Adivasi school teacher from Chhattisgarh, was in Mumbai recently to talk at an event organised to commemorate Justice (retired) Suresh Hosbet's 25 years of contribution to the human rights struggle in India post his retirement. This event was orgainsed by Majlis, a women's rights organisation in collaboration with Human Rights Law Network (HRLN),...