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November 20, 2016
जेएनयू के प्रॉक्टर की जांच में एबीवीपी कार्यकर्ता विक्रांत कुमार विश्वविद्यालय परिसर में हुए एक हंगामे के दौरान नजीब अहमद पर हमला करने के दोषी पाए गए हैं।
इस घटना के बाद नजीब एक महीने से भी अधिक समय से लापता है। उत्तर प्रदेश के बदायूं का रहने वाला नजीब (27) जेएनयू में स्कूल ऑफ बायोटेक्नोलॉजी का छात्र है और वह विश्वविद्यालय परिसर में विक्रांत सहित एबीवीपी के कार्यकर्ताओं के साथ हुई कथित...
November 20, 2016
Gujarat manhole deaths: High Court seeks details of what state govt has done to compensate kin by Dec 7. Petition by Manav Garima Trust
Images Courtesy: Counterview (Jitendra Rathod)
The Gujarat High Court has asked the state government pleader to obtain details of the “follow up action” taken, pursuant to the directions of the Supreme Court for...
November 19, 2016
Criticising this practice which appeared to have been adopted in the controversial and sensitive Naroda Patia massacre case of the 2002 riots, to possibly deliberately engage an advocate who is a distant relative of Justice Akil Kureshi, the division bench of Kureshi and Justice Biren Vaishnav observed that instead of requesting the judge not to hear the case, the senior counsel should have...
November 19, 2016
The NHRC has summoned the Chief Secretary of Government of Chhattisgarh and IGP, Bastar to explain the allegations of hostility and abuse of power against Human Rights Defenders
Bastar IG S.R.P. Kalluri (centre). Image: PTI
The National Human Rights Commission has noted and taken suo motu cognizance of "the nationwide outcry and protest on IG of Bastar Range Shri S.R.P. Kalluri for...
November 19, 2016
On November 16, Teesta Setalvad was invited to deliver the K.G.Kannabiran Memorial Lecture in Madurai by the People’s Union for Civil Liberties(PUCL).
The full text of the lecture cam be read here.
Excerpts
Land Acquisition, Forest Rights Act and Labour Laws
Apart from this assault on civil and political liberties, this regime –coming to power as it did backed by...
November 19, 2016
Amid chants of "Allahu akbar", huge and angry crowds gathered outside the Supreme Court in Mauritania on Tuesday demanding the execution of a man who complained about religion being used to justify social discrimination.
Demonstrators outside the Supreme Court. The banner says: ""We demand the execution of Ould Mkhaitir immediately".
In December 2013 engineer...
November 19, 2016
'The presidency is about many things,' groups declare in letter to president-elect. 'Chiefly, it is about setting an example through your leadership.'
President-elect Donald Trump "must repent, take responsibility, and challenge those who have been emboldened by his words, and he must also change the direction of his policies that undermine the cause of justice and civil...
November 16, 2016
A revaluation of our institutions is in order
Photo Credit: Rajib Dhar/Dhaka Tribune
Let’s give it to the urban elite: We have yet again survived another crisis without having to resort to a much needed debate on democratic norms and institutions.
Some houses and temples have again been burned. People have again been victimised. It’s not a very surprising routine,...
November 16, 2016
हरियाणा के करनाल में एक सगाई समारोह के दौरान लोगों की खुशी अचानक ही मातम में बदल गई। दरअसल, इस समारोह में शिरकत करने आई अखिल भारतीय हिंदू महासभा की राष्ट्रीय उपाध्यक्ष साध्वी देवा ठाकुर और उसके सुरक्षाकर्मियों ने हवा में गोलियां चलाईं, लेकिन इस फायरिंग में एक महिला की मौत हो गई और तीन लोग घायल हो गए। घटना के बाद घायलों को अस्पताल ले जाया गया जहाँ 50 वर्षीय महिला सुमन की मौत हो गई।
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November 16, 2016
For the first time in a long time Dalits have mobilised en masse for issues concerning their livelihoods. The uprising in Una has shaken the political establishment in Gujarat and has spread to other parts of India as well, including saffronised Udupi in Karnataka.
The Dalit struggle in Gujarat sparked off by the public flogging of a Dalit family by the gau rakshaks has caught the...