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October 31, 2016
The Indian political leadership and a section of the intelligentsia have been hysterical over the death of 19 soldiers in a recent attack on an army base in Kashmir. The September 18 attack that also left four militants dead has been blamed on Pakistan-based terror groups. The Indian government continues to claim that the insurgents fighting for the right to self-determination in Kashmir are...
October 31, 2016
Soni Sori, a human rights defender and an Adivasi school teacher from Chhattisgarh, was in Mumbai recently to talk at an event organised to commemorate Justice (retired) Suresh Hosbet's 25 years of contribution to the human rights struggle in India post his retirement. This event was orgainsed by Majlis, a women's rights organisation in collaboration with Human Rights Law Network (HRLN),...
October 31, 2016
As Sikhs were being massacred in Delhi after Indira Gandhi’s assassination, Zail Singh stood by helplessly, Home Minister Narasimha Rao played cool.
On November 1, 1992, The Pioneer newspaper, then edited by the legendary Vinod Mehta, published a story that Amit Prakash and this reporter had stitched together. Titled, 1984: The Price of Inaction Revisited, we based our story on...
October 31, 2016
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व्यापम घोटालेबाज भाजपाई मुख्यमंत्री शिवराज सिंह,
जिसने मामले की पोल खोलने की कोशिश करने वाले सत्तर से ज़्यादा लोगों का कत्ल करवाया ,
टीवी पर बोल रहा है कि आइये पहला दिया सैनिकों के नाम जलायें,
जवानों को अपनी सत्ता के लिये मरवा कर फर्जी देशभक्ति का ढोंग देख कर घिन आती है ,
मेरा प्रस्ताव है कि भाजपाई लोग देश के भीतर भाजपा और संघ की फैलाई गई नफरत की वजह से मारे गये...
October 30, 2016
Naroda patiya case: Babu Bajrangi gets 7 day-bail, 14th time since conviction
The Vacation Bench of Justice B N Karia partly allowed Bajrangi’s bail plea by giving him seven days relief from jail against 30 days which he had sought.
Babubhai Patel alias Babu Bajrangi, Courtsey: The Indian Express
The Gujarat High Court on Thursday, October 27, three days ago, granted...
October 30, 2016
मध्य प्रदेश से दलित उत्पीड़न की सबसे चिंताजनक खबरें आ रही हैं। राज्य के सतना जिले में पुलिस के थर्ड डिग्री के कारण एक दलित की मौत हो जाने का मामला सामने आया है। मृतक के परिजन अब दोषी पुलिसकर्मियों पर कार्रवाई की मांग कर रहे हैं। दरअसल जमीनी विवाद में एक वृद्ध की हत्या कर दी गई थी। इस पर पुलिस ने रामनगर थाना क्षेत्र के हाहुर गांव निवासी मृतक वृद्ध (गणेश साकेत) के पड़ोसी और उसकी पत्नी को शक के आधार...
October 29, 2016
Even after 15 days of a sinister and unexplained absence of the Jawharlal Nehru University (JNU) student Najeeb Ahmed, police, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) and the home ministry have failed to provide any information on the whereabouts of the missing biotechnology student.
Najeeb, who has been missing since the night of October 15, had had an altercation with the Akhil Bharatiya...
October 29, 2016
Co-sponsored by 57 nations, L41 calls for a 2017 conference 'to negotiate a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination'
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As long as nuclear weapons exist, the risk of accidental or deliberate use will be present," Jen Maman, peace adviser for Greenpeace International. (Photo: International Campaign to...
October 29, 2016
Syria: UN chief condemns reported school attack in western Aleppo
A child standing in front of his ground-flattened school after a bombardment in Ainjara village in rural Aleppo, Syria. Photo: UNICEF/Khalil Alshawi
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the reported attack today on a school in the western part of Syria's Aleppo city that killed a...
October 29, 2016
A petrol bomb was flung near a Pandit family home in Kulgam in south Kashmir yesterday, October 28 bringing into sharp question the government’s decision to lift the security cover to 808 Kashmiri Pandit families in the Valley since July. The bomb was reportedly flung close to the home of a Pandit family at Mirhama village in Kulgam at about 6.30 p.m. on Friday evening
Representational...