Day June 2, 2016
Haidar Naqvi, Kanpur | A Dalit woman, 20, had alleged that the son of a politician abducted and raped her in 2014. She was jailed three times and suffered fatal injuries when police arrested her a fourth time on April… Continue Reading →
Smruti Koppikar, HT | The revised Development Plan 2034 is out. Going by the evaluations made in the first few days by urban planners and hawk-eyed citizens, errors of omission and commission still persist in the revised DP. Municipal commissioner… Continue Reading →
Zakia Jafri’s husband Ehsan Jafri, a Congress lawmaker, was among 69 people killed in the Gujarat riots massacre at Gulbarg Society. Ahmedabad: 14 years after a mob of nearly 20,000 attacked Gulbarg society in Ahmedabad killing 69 people, including former… Continue Reading →
The Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA) in its letter to NCW chairperson Lalitha Kumaramangalam stated that they have collected 50,000 signatures in support of their campaign to end triple talaq. (Representational Image) NEW DELHI: HIGHLIGHTS Practice of triple ‘talaq’ un-Quranic,… Continue Reading →
Anoop Kumar His speech at the talk organised by the Ambedkarite Students’ Association at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, held on 22nd December, 2014. The speech has been transcribed by Valliammal Karunakaran. My name is Anoop and I… Continue Reading →
Modi’s contraception plan doesn’t challenge India’s long history of unequal reproductive health. by Lizzie Tribone A mother and her child in Odisha, India. UK Department for International Development The battle for reproductive rights is a global battle. In March, the United… Continue Reading →
by Updates from Bastar The conflict in Bastar is claiming more lives than will ever be known. 24-year-old Hurre Kartami’s name will not feature in any official record but this is her story. In the early hours of 13th April… Continue Reading →
By NICOLE PERLROTH Bill Marczak, a senior fellow at the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs, has been tracking the spread of spyware around the globe. CreditElizabeth D. Herman for The New York Times SAN… Continue Reading →
AZAAN JAVAID | , dna The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), probing the killing of rationalist Dr. Narendra Dabholkar, on Wednesday, said that its investigators had found cyber forensic evidence against two persons belonging to right-wing political groups. While one of the… Continue Reading →
Nearly 12 million Indian children were married before the age of 10 years–84% of them Hindu and 11% Muslim–reveals an IndiaSpend analysis of recently released census data. To put it in context, this number is equivalent to Jammu &… Continue Reading →