कानून का बोलबाला
November 28, 2016
Recently the brutal attack on eight undertrials outside the Bhopal Central jail had generated national outrage. Will these killings in Kerala, at the moment under the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government, also generate the same kind of opposition and criticism?
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The brutal shooting down of two persons, alleged to be Maoists have brought the spectre of extra-judicial...
November 28, 2016
Witness Protection Programme is a real need and States are expected to be pro-active, says the Supreme Court. Again. Despite these consistent and repeated judicial pronouncements, there has been scant response from across the political spectrum. Indian federalism and democracy boasts of different parties with ideological variants holding political power (in states and at the centre); but the...
November 28, 2016
Does criticism of a chief minister invite arrest? In a dictatorship, yes. So also it seems in BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh where a simplesocial media post by 19-year old, Abhishek Mishra got the young man behind bars!
Madhya Pradesh police arrested a 19-year-old engineering student for a social media post on demonetisation and attacking chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and the BJP on...
November 27, 2016
Official reports belie the cash flow scenario within Indian banks: It could be “several months” before RBI is able to plug the Rs 14.18 lakh crore hole left behind by the withdrawal of the 2,203 crore pieces of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes, as per the estimates.
As the country struggles to cope with a desperate shortage of currency, new notes worth only Rs 1.5 lakh...
November 27, 2016
Border Guard Bangladesh in Cox's Bazar district has pushed back at least 95 Rohingya Muslims who fled the country in the face of ongoing crackdown in Rakhain state by Myanmar troops
Photo credit: Dhaka Tribune
The 95 Rohingyas including women and children were sent back home from different border points of Teknaf till Sunday morning starting in the dead hours of the night....
November 27, 2016
Among other issues, four private businessmen from the corporate world were part of the RBI’s Central Board of Directors of the Reserve Bank of India on whose recommendation the central government acted through a mere Notification -- bypassing Parliament -- in gross violation of the RBI Act, Rules and Regulations
Long queue outside the Oriental Commercial Bank, New Delhi. Photo...
November 27, 2016
नई दिल्ली। 8 नवंबर को 1000 और 500 के नोटों को रद्दी करार देने वाली सरकार इससे पहले कालाधन सफेद करने के मौके दे चुकी है। उस वक्त सरकार ने कहा था कि आप अपने अघोषित कालेधन को 45 प्रतिशत टैक्स देकर सफेद कर सकते हैं। इस स्कीम के तहत बहुत सारे लोगों ने अपने धन की घोषणा की।
सेंट्रल बोर्ड ऑफ डायरेक्ट टैक्स (सीबीडीटी) ने इनकम टैक्स डिपार्टमेंट को देशभर में अपने ऑफिस 30 सितंबर को...
November 27, 2016
कासगंज। नोटबंदी से अब तक 70 से ज्यादा लोगों की मौत हो चुकी है। इसके बाद से लोगों का सरकार के प्रति गुस्सा बढ़ता जा रहा है। खासतौर पर मजदूर वर्ग नोटबंदी के कारण बुरी तरह परेशान है। गोरखपुर में तो दिहाड़ी मजदूर इस कदर मजबूर हो गए हैं कि एक हजार रुपये के लिए नसबंदी करा रहे हैं। नोटबंदी के कारण कासगंज में एक रिक्शा चालक की मौत हो गई। इसके बाद उसकी पत्नी ने सरकार के खिलाफ तहरीर दी है।...
November 27, 2016
The Bharatiya Janta Party government has amended the land tenancy laws to allow use of agricultural land for non-agricultural purposes.
Image credit: Manob Chowdhury
Offices and markets remained shut in Jharkhand on Friday after protests broke out over the amendments to land tenancy laws governing predominantly Adivasi regions in the state by the Raghuvar Das-led government. As...
November 27, 2016
Poems in Right filled Anger, Of Resistance
On November 16, 2016, the occasion of the KG Kannabiran Memorial Lecture at Madurai, feminist activist Vasanth Kannabiran read our three powerful pieces of writing. Teesta Setalvad, co-editor, Sabrangindia delivered the lecture. We reproduce these powerful poems of Vasanth Kannabiran, a fellow traveler in the democratic rights struggle, with a...