Day May 5, 2018
A 19 year old Sudanese girl, Noura Hussein, was forcefully married to a man at 16, ran away to her aunt’s for 3 years and was tricked by her dad to going back to him. Refusing to consummate their marriage,… Continue Reading →
Jaitapur nuclear plant: Villagers who took compensation rue lost livelihood, say project ‘dangerous’
Mayekar is one of the 2,338 farmers from 13 villages who had given up land for the project. Most farmers have accepted a compensation of Rs 22.5 lakh per hectare (2.5 acres). by Shubhangi Khapre | Outside the NPCL office at Madban…. Continue Reading →
by- Women against Sexual Violence and State Repression (WSS) Women against Sexual Violence and State Repression (WSS) condemn the recent spate of genocidal violence unleashed by the Indian State on the adivasis of Central India in the form of ‘encounter’… Continue Reading →
Today being Muslim in India is harder than ever before. by Apoorvanand Rallies have been held in Kathua accusing the investigation in to the brutal sexual assault and murder of an 8-year-old nomad Muslim girl of being “anti-Hindu” [Reuters]. Muslims… Continue Reading →
The plight of a wheelchair-bound professor reveals India’s “Terminator-like” attacks on dissent. By Tekendra Parmar Indian college students participate in a protest rally against the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the students wing of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, after the… Continue Reading →
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has removed comedian Bill Cosby and filmmaker Roman Polanski from its membership after a vote by its board of governors, the group announced yesterday (May 3). The decision comes a week after Cosby was convicted of… Continue Reading →
In our milieu, women are nothing more than a piece of meat hanging outside a butcher shop. GUSTAKH MANTO Aurat ki aabroo Hindustan ki jamhoriyat ka janaaza jis waqt 8 saal ki masoom bachhi ki shahadat se hokar ghuzar raha… Continue Reading →
Faizan Mustafa Resistance by students to the removal of Jinnah’s portrait should not be taken as an endorsement of his ideology. It is merely an assertion of the democratic right to take their own decisions. No one individual has… Continue Reading →
Ninety-three per cent of world’s informal employment is contributed by the emerging and developing countries. Newsclick Report Image Courtesy: The Wire About 80.9 per cent of India’s employed population – with 80.7 per cent men and 81.6 per cent women… Continue Reading →
The philosopher predicted that centralisation would lead to revolution and give birth to a post-capitalist society – globalisation has led us to that point Youssef El-Gingihy Two hundred years ago on 5 May 1818, Karl Marx was born in the German town of Trier on… Continue Reading →