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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...
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...