कानून का बोलबाला
December 1, 2016
Israeli legislation ostensibly intended to tackle noise pollution from Muslim houses of worship has, paradoxically, served chiefly to provoke a cacophony of indignation across much of the Middle East.
Image Credit: Carlos Latuff/Mondoweiss
Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared his support this month for the so-called “muezzin bill”, claiming it was urgently needed to stop...
December 1, 2016
The Supreme Court on Wednesday decided to give India a lesson in how exactly it should respect the national anthem. In an order that many experts have deemed a massive gesture of judicial overreach, the court yet again ventured into lawmaking by asking cinema halls to play the national anthem before start of each show along with displaying the national flag on the screen.
This decree to...
November 30, 2016
Gurgaon ki Awaaz is one of the radio stations arbitrarily issued a notice for carrying ‘objectionable and denigrating’ content on its radio station. The station director has issued this statement accepting the challenges of running a community radio station in a society where misogynistic language, even abuse, often creeps into discourse; this is worth a read as it has lessons...
November 29, 2016
The RSS may not harm Islam in India, but it will certainly destroy Hinduism, Hindi poet Ashok Vajpeyi said on Thursday.
“Mahatma Gandhi had once said that all religions are true, but they are not perfect. Through this he is saying that each religion can learn from another religion. A nation which is called so diverse which has millions of gods and over 700 languages.
“Now...
November 29, 2016
Fitch Ratings today lowered India’s GDP growth forecast for this fiscal to 6.9 percent from 7.4 percent, saying there will be “temporary disruptions” to economic activity post demonetisation.
It said economic activity will be hit in the October- December quarter because of the cash crunch created by withdrawal and replacement of 500 and 1000 rupee notes that accounted for 86...
November 29, 2016
In an interim order, the court asked the police to preserve the bodies until Tuesday 7 pm.
The Malappuram district court on Monday restrained the Kerala Police from cremating the bodies of two suspected Maoists, who were killed in an alleged encounter with police on last Thursday.
The court acted upon a petition filed by Sreedharan, the brother of slain Kuppu Devraj...
November 29, 2016
The Gujarat HC permitted a 19-year-old Hindu girl to live-in with her Muslim boyfriend, who is just 20 years old and is currently ineligible for marriage.
According to the case details, the boy and girl studied together in school and were in love since their school days.
In a case not unusual for India’s syncretic and plural society, the Gujarat High Court permitted a couple...
November 29, 2016
कुशीनगर। एक तरफ तो बीजेपी खुद को पार्टी विद डिफरेंस कहती है और नैतिकता का दंभ भरती है। लेकिन दूसरी तरफ केंद्र की सत्ता में आने के बाद बीजेपी के नेता कानून को ताक पर रखने लगे हैं। उत्तर प्रदेश की सत्ता में लौटने के लिए बेताब बीजेपी के नेता किसी से भी, कहीं भी मारपीट और गाली गलौज करने को आतुर हो जाते हैं।
ऐसी ही एक खबर बीजेपी की परिवर्तन रैली के दिन कुशीनगर जिले से आई है।...
November 29, 2016
The human rights activist's date of detention was wrongly mentioned as September 19, instead of September 21 by the jail authorities.
Despite Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Friday ordering the state government to release Khurram Parvez, the human rights activist is still locked up in jail owing to a “minor clerical error”.
The date of detention in the Public Safety Act...
November 28, 2016
नई दिल्ली। लोकसभा चुनावों के समय भारतीय जनता पार्टी ने चुनाव प्रचार में सबसे ज्यादा पैसा खर्च किया था। प्रचार का आलम यह था कि जहां भी देखो हर जगह भाजपा ही नजर आती थी। अब केंद्र की भाजपा सरकार फिर से खर्चे को लेकर चर्चाओं में आ गई है।
केंद्र की मोदी सरकार ने पिछले दो साल में सिर्फ प्रचार में ही 1100 करोड़ रुपए से ज्यादा की रकम खर्च कर चुकी...