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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 26, 2016
Image Courtesy: Kashmir Life: Omkar Nath Bhat outside his home in Haal Shopian.
Pic: Bilal Bahadur
Since July 2016, sustained threats and some sporadic attacks have left the 808 Kashmiri Pandit families in the Valley, threatened. On October 29, 2016, Sabrangindia had reported how a petrol bomb was flung at the home of one such cluster of Pandits living in the Valley. A...
November 23, 2016
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PATNA: Police in Bihar’s eastern Madhepura district on Tuesday arrested two of the six menaccused of setting afire as many as 18 houses belonging to a Mahadalit community — the poorest among the Dalit communities living in Bihar.
Media reports say that nearly 50 people from the distressed Mahadalit community in Udakishan area, many of them...
November 23, 2016
A video of Bajrang Dal goons in Bulandshahr’s Khurja in Uttar Pradesh mercilessly thrashing a Muslim couple because they felt both were ‘dirtying’ Hindu neighbourhood has surfaced.
In the video, the Hindutva brigade goons are seen mercilessly thrashing the man and the woman. We’ve edited the part of the video, where the woman’s identity could be revealed....
November 23, 2016
SILENCED: Rationalists Dr Narendra Dabolkar, Govind Pansare and M M Kalburgi were murdered in cold blood by fascist elements Dakshinayan Abhiyan, an initiative taken by Padma Shri Dr Ganesh Devy, is organising a convention to bring rationalist and liberals together to preserve the freedom of speech and thought guaranteed by the constitution. The convenor of the three-day convention starting...
November 22, 2016
Members of the muslim Rohingya minority are fleeing Myanmar after government troops poured into their land since a series of attacks on police border posts last month
Rohingya refugees sit as they wait to enter the Kutupalang Refugee Camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, November 21, 2016REUTERS
Hundreds of Rohingya have arrived in Bangladesh after fleeing violence in neighbouring...
November 22, 2016
Rogue military personnel? Or a deliberate policy of abuse? Day 6 of our 7 day openDemocracy's series on alleged abuse by British soldiers in Iraq.
Documents in the military court room in Colchester, Essex, where four soldiers and three ex-soldiers accused of the murder of an Iraqi civilian stood trial back in September 2005. Corporal Scott Evans, 32, Private Billy Nerney, 24,...
November 22, 2016
जम्मू। केंद्र सरकार ने 8 नवंबर को देश में 500 और 1000 के नोटबंद करने की घोषणा की थी। सरकार की तरफ से इसे आतंकियों पर लगाम लगाने के लिए जरूरी बताया गया था। सरकार के लोगों ने दावा किया था कि नए नोट लागू करने से आतंकियों के पास पुराने नोट की वैल्यू खत्म हो जाएगी। जिससे आतंकवाद पर लगाम लगाने पर मदद मिलेगी। लेकिन नोटबंदी के सिर्फ चौदह दिनों के भीतर ही मुठभेड़ में मारे गए आतंकियों के पास से नए 2000 के...
November 21, 2016
Eminent economist and researcher Dr Abul Barkat says that there will be no Hindus left in the country three decades from now.
Dr Abul Barkat
“The rate of exodus over the past 49 years points to that direction,” the Dhaka University teacher says in his book Political economy of reforming agriculture-land-water bodies in Bangladesh published yesterday....
November 21, 2016
The member of the RSS-affiliated Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) Vikrant Kumar has been asked to explain why disciplinary action should not be initiated against him.
A proctorial inquiry by the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has found ABVP member Vikrant Kumar guilty of assaulting Najeeb Ahmed during a brawl following which the latter went missing over a month ago. Najeeb...