हक़ और आजादी
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...
December 20, 2016
Police have killed hundreds of suspects in custody between 2009-2015, alleges rights group and the police often blame the deaths on suicide or illness.
Human Rights Watch(HRW)’s “Bound by Brotherhood”, India’s Failure to End Killings in Police Custody report released in New Delhi recently, documents habitual torture of undertrials and detainees by Indian police...
December 20, 2016
India’s Failure to End Killings in Police Custody
A Report by Human Rights Watch, USA
December 20, 2016
संसद का शीतकालीन सत्र खत्म होने से ठीक एक दिन पहले 15 दिसंबर को केवल 500 मीटर की दूरी पर संसद मार्ग थाने से लेकर जंतर-मंतर तक 15000 केंद्रीय कर्मचारी दिन भर विशाल मंच से भाषण देते रहे और अपनी मांगों के हक़ में नारे लगाते रहे, लेकिन राष्ट्रीय, अंतरराष्ट्रीय और स्थानीय मीडिया ने अपनी आंखें मूंदे रखीं और कान ढंके रखे। उसे न तो लाल झंडे दिखायी दिए, न ही कर्मचारियों की आवाज़ें...