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Day August 21, 2016

Stop the Witch Hunt for liberal Urdu Writers

Writer let off obscenity charge: – `STOP THE WITCH-HUNT FOR LIBERAL URDU WRITERS‘ Sharmeen Hakim Rahman Abbas acquitted after complainant stopped finding two tracts about an imagined love scene in his 2004 novel offensive Dragged into a perfectly need less… Continue Reading →

One Humanity? Millions of Children Tortured, Abused, Enslaved

BAHER KAMAL ROME (IPS): Children are being smuggled, sexually abused, maimed, killed for their vital organs, recruited as soldiers or otherwise enslaved. Not only: 69 million children under five will die from mostly preventable causes, 167 million will live in… Continue Reading →

‘Maoist killed in encounter was a juvenile undertrial

 PAVAN DAHAT On August 16, the Chhattisgarh police claimed to have killed a Maoist, Arjun, in an alleged encounter near Chandameta village on the Chhattisgarh-Odisha border. Inspector General (IG) of Police (Bastar range) S.R.P Kalluri said that Arjun was the… Continue Reading →

False nuclear hope

  BY M V RAMANA AND ZIA MIAN Bangladesh’s first nuclear power plant is not a good way to meet its energy needs. Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Russian President Vladimir Putin during the Russia-Bangladesh talks in January 2013… Continue Reading →

India – Tribals demand rehabilitation, implementation of Forest Rights Act

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Tribal community members from H.D. Kote, Periyapatna and Hunsur staging a demonstration in Mysuru on Thursday.— PHOTO: M.A. SRIRAM Tribal community members from H.D. Kote, Periyapatna, Hunsur and other places in the district staged a demonstration in the… Continue Reading →

India – Is it possible to exist without an ID?

The longer that debate on identity is buried, the more hurdles we place in the way of good governance that is emphasized by the current Indian government Dipankar De Sarkar The identity card in India is ubiquitous and omnipresent in… Continue Reading →

Drinking milk from non-Indian cows ‘could make children turn to crime’

India’s middle class gated communities should keep their own cow herds with cows from India, Shankar Lal, leader of an influential Hindu nationalist group, says Milk from Jersey cows may make children turn to crime, allegedly Photo: Alamy By Dean Nelson,… Continue Reading →

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