कानून का बोलबाला
December 7, 2016
Stung by a biting piece in the prestigious UK-based Economist, dated December 3, the Reserve bank of India (RBI) under prime minister Narendra Modi favourite, Urijit Patel played the favourite dictator’s hand: simply kept the senior correspondent out of its daily briefings.
Stanley Pignal, the magazine’s correspondent in the capital took to twitter to express his sense of...
December 7, 2016
Hundreds of thousands of Dalits gathered in Mumbai on Tuesday to pay their respects to the scholar-reformer.
Image credit: Punit Paranjpe/ AFP
The last time Lalitabai Kamble travelled to Mumbai, it was 1972 and she was a young teenager. Of all the sites she visited in the city, BR Ambedkar’s memorial in Dadar was not one of them.
“Back then, my family had no...
December 7, 2016
John Kerry offered yet another tough-love talk to Israel at the pro-Israel Saban Forum yesterday. The United States gives Israel more than half of the aid that we give “to the entire world,” and Israel simply ignores us when we warn it about new settlements.
Kerry: Every president, Republican and Democrat, has been opposed to settlements – we issue a warning...
December 6, 2016
With Sharma, Modi and now Asthana, the CBI is filled with acquiescent officers, comfortable to the Modi regime
With the PMO (prime minister’s office) appointing Rakesh Asthana, a Gujarat cadre IPS officer, as the interim director of the Central Bureau of Investigation—violating rules and norms—that has already attracted legal action challenging the move, the...
December 6, 2016
If the Khadki Ordnance Factory (OFK) is not manufacturing the anti-riot weapon called "pellet guns, where are law enforcement agencies, particularly the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in J&K, buying these pellet guns from?
Terror financing seems to be alive despite demonetisation/remonetisation drive
The security forces are reported to have told the...
December 6, 2016
Pramod sells a rare commodity – blood. Paid “blood donation” may have been banned in India by a 1996 Supreme Court ruling, but touts like him are a common sight in hospitals across India.
Pramod met this reporter at a tea stall next to Gate No 1 of the All India Institute of Medical Science in south Delhi. Dressed in a shabby black shirt and a pair of track-pants, the...
December 5, 2016
The gangrape and after, the battle for justice has been long and lonely. The victim has had to leave home, her husband has lost his job. Their only hope is justice will be swift and exemplary
The memories haunt her daily. “Din raat bas dimaag mein wahi chalta rehta hai, har waqt dar lagta rehta hai (I keep thinking about it all day, I feel scared all the time)....
December 5, 2016
The Allahabad High Court is likely to pronounce its judgement on Momday on a petition challenging the election of Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Varanasi Lok Sabha seat.
The petition has been filed by sitting Congress MLA Ajay Rai, who was the party’s candidate against Modi from Varanasi in the 2014 general elections and was defeated.
Rai has challenged the...
December 5, 2016
देश में भाषा के लिहाज से हिन्दी भाषी क्षेत्र सबसे बड़ा है। हिन्दी की पत्र-पत्रिकाओं की कश्मीर के बारे में आम जन मानस के बीच एक तरह की राय बनाने में सर्वाधिक भूमिका मानी जाती है।मीडिया स्टडीज ग्रुप ने हिन्दी पत्रकारिता के जरिये कश्मीर की एक खास तरह की छवि बनाने की पृष्ठभूमि का अध्ययन करने की एक योजना तैयार की। हिन्दी पत्रकारिता में सक्रिय पत्रकारों के बीच एक सर्वेक्षण किया गया जिसमें कश्मीर के...
December 4, 2016
E.A.S.Sarma
14-40-4/1 Gokhale Road
Maharanipeta
Visakhapatnam 530002
Mobile: 91-9866021646
To
Shri Karnal Singh
Director
Enforcement Directorate
Govt of India
Dear Shri Karnal Singh,
I have just come across an NDTV report showing scenes of a wedding function lavishly conducted by shri Mahesh Sharma, a Cabinet colleague of the Prime Minister.
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