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November 21, 2016
These Videos have been shot by the Naujawan Bharat Sabha, Mumbai. The youth political organisation is running a campaign against the inhuman move of Modi govt that is demonetization. They are organising street meetings, distributing pamphlets in Hindi and Marathi.
These Videos show Inteviews with Mumbai’s Working Class: Why is the mainstream media so completely blocking these...
November 21, 2016
नई दिल्ली। केंद्र के पुराने नोट बंद करने के फैसले को लेकर लोगों में काफी गुस्सा है। लेकिन वहीं सार्वजनिक क्षेत्र के बैंक एसबीआई द्वारा कथित तौर पर विजय माल्या के किंगफिशर एयरलाइंस के कर्ज समेत कुल 7000 करोड़ रुपए का कर्ज माफ कर देने पर नासिक के एक सफाई कर्मचारी ने अपने कर्ज को माफ करने के लिए बैंक को पत्र लिखा है।
आपको बता दें कि नासिक के एक सफाई कर्मचारी ने एसबीआई को पत्र लिखकर उसका...
November 20, 2016
My religion is nobody else’s business, says CJI Thakur
PTI Reports:
The relationship between man and God is “very personal” and should be “nobody else’s business”, Chief Justice of India T S Thakur said today as he stressed on tolerance for peace in society.
More lives have been lost in religious wars than due to political ideologies,...
November 20, 2016
गुजरात के पूर्व बीजेपी विधायक राजीव ओजा ने भाजपा अध्यक्ष अमित शाह पर गंभीर आरोप लगाए हैं। ओजा का कहना है कि आठ नवंबर से पहले तक अमित शाह नोटों बदलने के धंधे में शामिल थे। ओजा का कहना है कि उनके पास अपने आरोप साबित करने लिए वीडियो रिकार्डिंग है।
ओझा ने प्रधानंमत्री नरेंद्र मोदी को लिखी एक खुली चिट्ठी में नोटबंदी के फैसले पर उनकी जम कर आलोचना की है और कहा है कि यह देश को मूर्ख बनाने का कदम है...
November 20, 2016
Gujarat manhole deaths: High Court seeks details of what state govt has done to compensate kin by Dec 7. Petition by Manav Garima Trust
Images Courtesy: Counterview (Jitendra Rathod)
The Gujarat High Court has asked the state government pleader to obtain details of the “follow up action” taken, pursuant to the directions of the Supreme Court for...
November 20, 2016
Demonetization: South Gujarat farmers protest, warn Modi, it will lead to failue of winter crop due to cash crunch
Farmers from across south Gujarat districts choked Surat city roads on November 19 as a mark of protest against demonetisation and the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) decision restricting majority of the cooperative banks from dealing with the Rs 500 and Rs 1,000...
November 19, 2016
The NHRC has summoned the Chief Secretary of Government of Chhattisgarh and IGP, Bastar to explain the allegations of hostility and abuse of power against Human Rights Defenders
Bastar IG S.R.P. Kalluri (centre). Image: PTI
The National Human Rights Commission has noted and taken suo motu cognizance of "the nationwide outcry and protest on IG of Bastar Range Shri S.R.P. Kalluri for...
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...