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Day May 13, 2016

Why The Hindu American Foundation Does Not Speak For Me

by Meghna Chandra As an educator who believes in the ability of education to inspire people to build a better world and to develop people into fuller human beings, I take issue with the claims of the Hindu American Foundation that Hindu children must… Continue Reading →

The road map after Dehradun – Article 356

Gopalkrishna Gandhi If the President receives a palpably vulnerable or politically coloured recommendation on Article 356, he must return it to the Cabinet for reconsideration Before the Supreme Court’s decision in the S.R. Bommai v. Union of India case (1994), the Karnataka… Continue Reading →

Bihar – Senior Journalist and Bureau Chief Hindustan Shot dead At Point-Blank Range

Rajdeo Ranjan, bureau chief of Hindustan, shot dead in Bihar’s Siwan Avinash Kumar, Hindustan Times, Patna | Rajdeo Ranjan was shot in the head and neck near Siwan railway station. (HT Photo) A senior journalist and Siwan bureau chief of Hindi… Continue Reading →

Shameful that India forces a Shaikh to be Shubham for rent

Only an anti-discrimination law can protect the rights of hapless tenants against biased homeowners. APARNA KALRA   I rent. I am a woman. These two things together make me a persona non grata in Delhi‘s housing rent market. My latest… Continue Reading →

US Poultry workers ‘denied lavatory breaks and forced to wear nappies’ #WTFnews

Oxfam America says thousands of workers are denied lavatory breaks CREDIT: AP    Agence France-Presse Poultry workers in the United States are routinely denied bathroom breaks to the point of being forced to wear nappies while on the production line, according to… Continue Reading →

‘Gerrymandering’ to keep Dalits away

S. SENTHALIR The election in the former French colony is not only about candidates, their grandiose rituals and the freebies on offer. Underlying all the politicking is a numbers game fixed in favour of the dominant castes. The policies of… Continue Reading →

India: Dalit Christians Beaten For Refusing To Convert To Hinduism #WTFnews

Location of Jharkhand in India. Source: Wikipedia Commons. BY UCAN MAY 13, 2016 In the second such incident in a fortnight, 16 Christians, including women and children, fled a village in eastern India after neighbors allegedly beat them for refusing to accept… Continue Reading →

Forced Eviction and Demolition drive in Indore #WTFnews

  Pad Yatra organized to address concerns of affected families  Indore | : The Smart Cities flagship modernization programme of the Modi government is huge in its scale and vicious in the way it has acquired land for the development of… Continue Reading →

SC directs SpiceJet to compensate disability rights activist , who was forcibly de-boarded from flight

By: Ashok KM | There should be a full recognition of the fact that persons with disability were integral part of the community, equal in dignity and entitled to enjoy the same human rights and freedoms as others, the Court… Continue Reading →

18 years after Pokharan, security eludes India and dangers have become more serious

http://www.catchnews.com/india-news/18-years-after-pokharan-security-eludes-india-and-dangers-have-become-more-serious-1463053826.html KUMAR SUNDARAM Malik/Catch News  QUICK PILL The Nuclear promise 18 years ago, India conducted its first nuclear test The test was conducted at a time when India’s relations with Pakistan and China were getting better The programme was meant… Continue Reading →

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