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December 22, 2016
A city under siege: never again? Abdalrhman Ismail/Reuters
The siege of Aleppo is a mass atrocity with unprecedented levels of visibility. Confronted with the horrific images of a destroyed city, and the testimonies of wounded survivors using social media to reach out to the world, many have argued that a complete meltdown of humanity is unfolding.
Some have lamented that the...
December 22, 2016
जेएनयू और उना विवाद से उपजे कन्हैया और जिग्नेश ने जहां सामाजिक-आर्थिक आजादी की मांग की, वहीं रोहित की खुदकुशी ने शैक्षिक संस्थाओं में भेदभाव को देश के सामने रखा
फ्रांस की क्रांति से लेकर साल 2010 में ट्यूनीशिया से शुरु हुई ‘स्प्रिंग रिवोल्यूशन’ के दौरान इस बात की पुष्टि हुई कि क्रांति और आंदोलनों की जरुरत कभी खत्म नहीं होती. जॉर्ज बर्नार्ड शॉ ने कहा था, ‘इतिहास हमें यह सिखाता...
December 22, 2016
The Union government has finally woken up to the dangerous situation in Manipur and has sent 4000 central paramilitary troops to control ethnic tension which has been building over weeks and are now threatening to spiral out of control. It should have done this at least a month ago when as a consequence of an indefinite blockade on the lifelines of Manipur by a Naga civil organisation, United...
December 22, 2016
12 dead and 48 injured on the eve of Christmas, and a Tunisian is a suspect
Analysts are still amazed that a truck, used to carry goods, can be transformed into a weapon by Islamic terrorists. As the Berlin truck attack shows, perhaps anything can be turned into an agent of destruction. But this is not the first incident involving such an unconventional weapon. The Nice attack in France...
December 21, 2016
The High Court has also started hearing the appeal petitions on daily basis since last Monday, December 19
The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday allowed six victims of the 2002 Naroda Patia massacre to get case papers running into over 1.25 lakh pages free of cost from the registry of the court. Survivors backed by Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP),a Mumbai-based civil rights and legal aid group...
December 20, 2016
While the Dalit upsurge in Una in Gujarat received widespread attention, an atrocity against Dalit youths being thrashed in Muzaffarpur, Bihar at the same time did not. It remained merely a Paswan versus Bhumihar confrontation. Dalits remain a differentiated group in Bihar, and have a long way to go before the community can rise above the imperatives of the here and now and assert as a...
December 20, 2016
A 45-year-old man was allegedly attacked with cricket bails after he blamed the Prime Minister for the serpentine queue outside a bank in southeast Delhi’s Jaitpur area, police said today.
According to complainant Lallan Singh Kushwaha, he was on his way to buy a television set on December 15 when he passed an ATM and noticed the long queue, they said.
He said ‘Modiji ki...
December 19, 2016
Babu Bajrangi, the terror behind the 2002 genocidal carnage, already granted temporary parole (bail) eight times since his conviction for conspiracy and murder on August 29, 2012 is pushing to be granted permanent bail from the Gujarat High Court tomorrow. The appeal in the case is being heard before the Gujarat High Court. 32 persons were convicted to life imprisonment in a historic verdict...
December 18, 2016
Photo Credit: Morung Express
PTI Report: In the wake of heightened tension and violence, parts of Manipur capital Imphal were today brought under indefinite curfew and mobile internet services were snapped at various places to prevent spread of rumours over an alleged attack on a church. The curfew was imposed this noon and covers Porompat and Sawombung subdivisions of Imphal East district,...
December 18, 2016
Radhika Vemula was manhandled by the Delhi Police in February 2016 even as then MHRD Minister, Smriti Irani made a speech dis-regarding
the pain of the Dalit students struggle in Parliament
Ambedkarite students of the University of Hyderabad (UoH) have in a detailed and strongly worded memorandum to the President of India, substantiated by 26 authenticated annexures, demanded that he...