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October 19, 2016
Days after US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s remarks over friendly ties with India and the “Hindu” community, Hindu Sena in New Delhi organised a protest to condemn the rival Hillary Clinton’s alleged attempt at maligning the former’s image.
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The Hindu right wing organisation has offered its full support to Trump...
October 19, 2016
Do recent mass protests by Paraguayan students represent the beginning of a political awakening?
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University students are making history in Paraguay in what is being dubbed La Primavera Estudiantil, or Student Spring. Over the last weeks, students and their allies mobilized one of the largest protest movements in the country’s history, demanding democratic...
October 18, 2016
A North Dakota judge today refused to authorise riot charges against award-winning journalist Amy Goodman for her reporting on an attack against Native American-led anti-pipeline protesters.
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“This is a complete vindication of my right as a journalist to cover the attack on the protesters, and of the public’s right to know what is happening with the Dakota Access...
October 17, 2016
आज से 97 वर्ष पहले ब्रिटिश सरकार ने भारत में खूंरेजी का जो खेल खेला था, वह इतिहास में जालियावालां बाग नरसंहार के नाम से कुख्यात है। 13 अप्रैल, 1919 को इस सरकार के क्रूर पुलिस अफसर ने अमृतसर के जालियांवाला बाग में योजना बना कर 2000 बेकसूर हिंदू, सिख और मुस्लिमों को गोलियों से भून डाला। आधकारिक आंकड़ों के मुताबिक उस दिन ब्रिटिश सरकार के अफसर जनरल डायर के नेतृत्व में चली गोलियों से 1,526 लोग मौत के...
October 17, 2016
There’s been a great deal of excitement over Bob Dylan winning the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature. It’s rare for artists who have achieved widespread, mainstream popularity to win. And although Nobels often go to Americans, the last literature prize to go to one was Toni Morrison in 1993. Furthermore, according to The New York Times, “It is the first time the honor has gone to...
October 17, 2016
‘EXECUTION IS A TERORIST’S TOOL: Stop the cycle of violence’, screams a powerful poster brought out by the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty (www.worldcoalition.org) for the World Day against the Death Penalty, October 10th 2016!
The focus this year is on ‘terrorism’ and whether the death penalty is actually a deterrent to an act of terrorism....
October 17, 2016
Aleppo burns and Mosul reels. But in the background, yet more conflicts are incubating.
File photo: Ayman al-Zawahri and Osama bin Laden, 1998. Mazhar Ali Khan/AP/Press Association Images.
The combined Russian-Syrian bombardment of eastern Aleppo continues to be intense and often indiscriminate. In this the operation resembles the destruction of Grozny in the two Chechen wars of the...
October 14, 2016
Politically I do not know where he stands today.'
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I’m not really sure how I feel about Bob Dylan winning the Nobel Prize for literature. Firstly, there is nothing sacred about Nobel, whose fortune was made by inventing, manufacturing and selling military explosives. We can go past that one as it’s an old story and even war profits may...
October 13, 2016
According to the 2016 Global Hunger Index report, India continues to have ‘serious’ hunger score with a low rank of 97 in the list of 118 developing countries prepared by International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
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India is behind the South Asian countries like Nepal, Bangladesh, and Myanmar, but ahead of Pakistan and three other...
October 13, 2016
A research conducted by Fitch group firm BMI has predicted that India’s beef industry will continue to lead the global beef trade in volume despite the rise of nationalistic Hindu sentiments in the country, as reported by The Indian Express.
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“India specialises in the production of cheap and abundant buffalo meat and will continue to lead the global beef trade...