Day May 6, 2018
Houses of 1400 poor Dalit and Muslim families under threat of demolition in Mumbai No eviction without rehabilitation Due process of law to be followed before carrying out the demolition drive PL SIGN PETITION HERE https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Shri_Devendra_Fadnavis_Chief_Minister_of_Maharashtra_Stop_this_demolition_of_Dalit_and_Muslim_homes/ Mumbai | 6th May, 2018: Amidst hollow… Continue Reading →
Linking late marriages to “love jihad” — a term used by Hindutva forces for marriages between Hindu women and Muslim men — the BJP leader said girls are “emotional” and that they “get carried away” when someone offers to help… Continue Reading →
Happy birthday, Karl Marx. (Wikimedia Commons) On the second centenary of his birth, Karl Marx remains as relevant as ever. BY HOWARD ZINN ShareTweetReddit0StumbleUpon1248EmailPrint To his daughter Eleanor, Marx was “the cheeriest, gayest soul that ever breathed, a man brimming over… Continue Reading →
AGRA: Patients and their relatives were allegedly locked up in rooms and corridors of SN Medical College in Agra for nearly 45 minutes ahead of chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s visit on Saturday morning. The CM had come to the medical facility to meet those… Continue Reading →
Indrajit Hazra i Funky Town is up in arms again. All because the end of Lal Qila is nigh. The 17th-century imperial residential fort built during Shah Jahan’s reign will now host DJ Aqeel on Independence Night. And if the Great… Continue Reading →
.That too is part of our history, says historian Irfan Habib Manimugdha S Sharma| TNN | Prof Irfan Habib. Irfan Habib was present when Muhammad Ali Jinnah came to Aligarh Muslim University and his portrait was installed in the students’ union hall over seven decades ago. The… Continue Reading →
The Jharkhand Police has so far made 15 arrests in connection with the gangrape and murder of a 16-year-old girl, who was set on fire in Chatra district’s Raja Kendua village, according to media reports. Among the 15 arrested are main… Continue Reading →
One of the resorts off Ahmedabad: Representative image By Our Representative In a typical case of how Gujarat’s real estate developers bypass existing laws to become farmers to quietly buy up prime agricultural land dirt cheap, a top builder, known… Continue Reading →
The families of Mohammad Akhlaq in Dadri in Uttar Pradesh and Pehlu Khan in Nuh in Haryana each lost a family member to cow vigilantism and now, after all the media attention has ebbed, justice seems elusive as the accused… Continue Reading →