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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...
November 16, 2016
A revaluation of our institutions is in order
Photo Credit: Rajib Dhar/Dhaka Tribune
Let’s give it to the urban elite: We have yet again survived another crisis without having to resort to a much needed debate on democratic norms and institutions.
Some houses and temples have again been burned. People have again been victimised. It’s not a very surprising routine,...
November 16, 2016
Mandya: There is only one doctor at the primary health centre (PHC) in Melkote, in southern Karnataka, to serve 20,000 people across 33 villages. On Sunday, the doctor’s weekly off, the usually crowded PHC is completely deserted.
The primary health centre at Melkote, in Mandya district, Karnataka, has only one doctor–to serve 20,000 people across 33 villages. The number of...
November 16, 2016
For the first time in a long time Dalits have mobilised en masse for issues concerning their livelihoods. The uprising in Una has shaken the political establishment in Gujarat and has spread to other parts of India as well, including saffronised Udupi in Karnataka.
The Dalit struggle in Gujarat sparked off by the public flogging of a Dalit family by the gau rakshaks has caught the...