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Month June 2017

India – An Alien’s Letter To The New President Elect- Ram Nath Kovind

pic courtesy- Luis Vazquez/Gulf News Greetings President Ram Nath Kovind.  Greetings from an Alien, who is also as much a citizen of India as you are.  I call you President Kovind, for though you are now the candidate of the… Continue Reading →

India – Train Lynching – As Mob Rule Took Over A Train Compartment, Nobody Helped

Brinda  Karat Sayara, 46, sits among the mourning women, her hand pressed closely against her chest as if to stop her heart from breaking. Her blue-grey eyes look at you, through you, beyond you. She is the mother of the… Continue Reading →

Nepal asks Ramdev’s Patanjali to recall six medical products

All medicines mentioned in the notice — six out of seven from Patanjali — had failed the microbial tests used to detect bacteria, mould and other toxins. By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Published:June 23, 2017 5:45 pm… Continue Reading →

Jharkhand: Police drag 19-year-old Muslim out of his house, shoot him dead

  By TwoCircles.net  In another case of police brutality against Muslims, a 19-year-old Muslim boy in Jharkhand was dragged out of his house and shot dead by the local police. The incident took place in Piperwar town of Chatra district…. Continue Reading →

India – Forget food and milk even blood from your blood banks could be adulterated #WTFnews

  According to reports, the adulterated samples had 40% saline and 60% blood. TNM Staff Image for representation × From sweets tainted with cement to stale and unhygienic meat, Hyderabad has been struggling with a major adulteration problem. Shockingly, however,… Continue Reading →

Aadhaar Not Valid Identification Document for Travel to Nepal, Bhutan: Home Ministry

ASHWINI SHRIVASTAVA / NEW DELHI, PHOTOGRAPH BY GETTY IMAGES Aadhaar is not a valid identification document for Indians travelling to Nepal and Bhutan, the Union home ministry has said. Indians can travel to Nepal and Bhutan–both countries for which they… Continue Reading →

Kashmir – With Facebook banned, youth reach out via Kashbook

  Not locked out: Youth near Dal Lake use smartphones and new social media options to connect. Tech-savvy teens develop alternative social networking platforms for the Valley A bright and windy day, when tourists were out and about in Srinagar,… Continue Reading →

Open letter to the designers and implementers of #UID. .. #Aadhaar

Nikhil Dey and Aruna Roy  We write this letter to you as a question, a comment, a complaint, and finally an appeal. We do want to clarify at the outset that we have had many intellectual and theoretical problems with… Continue Reading →

Chief Justice Khehar and the tussle between the executive and the judiciary

    Balancing Act By ATUL DEV |  PREM SINGH FOR THE CARAVAN On 16 October 2015, Jagdish Singh Khehar struck down the NJAC Act in its entirety. The judgment marked a flashpoint in the long conflict between the executive and… Continue Reading →

#SundayReading- India’s new museums are more about memories than objects

  The Partition Museum’s gallery of hope features a tree where people write messages on paper leaves. All these years, the Partition of India and Pakistan, the biggest mass migration in the last century, has been confined to refugee accounts… Continue Reading →

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