Month September 2017
NEWS WORLD INDIA | Rajya Sabha MP and chairman of Essel Group (parent company of Zee Media Ltd) Subhash Chandra is facing serious allegations of defrauding banks of crores of rupees through shell companies. The Managing Director of Playschool… Continue Reading →
Strikes as odd Pravin Sawhney The Gamble: There was concern that the strikes may evoke massive retaliation. Pravin Sawhney ON September 29 last year, following the unprecedented admission by India that its Special Forces (SF) had conducted “surgical strikes” inside… Continue Reading →
Sophie Scholl, her brother, Hans, and another close friend of theirs from Munich university were executed for resisting the atrocities MADHURI DANTHALA On February 22, 1943, a young petite girl, found her neck on the guillotine in Nazi Germany. All… Continue Reading →
] Digging into Adani: The dubious dealings of India‘s corporate colossus. “Why would the crime branch want to see us?” Stephen Long, reporter When Four Corners travelled to India to investigate the activities of the giant Adani group, they soon discovered… Continue Reading →
Taking away the right to dissent. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki) Nupur Anand India has hardly been a haven for journalists. For years, reporters and editors have faced harassment, coercion, and threats from vested interests in the government as well as private… Continue Reading →
The government is using all kinds of tactics like linking it with everything possible to make Aadhaar card mandatory, despite the court ruling against it. But what happens if people start getting physical punishment for nat having an Aadhaar? Police… Continue Reading →
Tharun Boda VIJAYAWADA, S Id verification failure resulting in service denial The users of the People First Citizen (PFC) mobile application launched by Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu recently are apparently facing teething problems due to the ‘Aadhaar’ linkage. At a… Continue Reading →
Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage captionJean Dreze is known for his influential work on hunger and gender inequality Economist Jean Dreze’s new book makes an increasingly necessary argument that creating a morally good, progressive society is as important as improving traditional development… Continue Reading →
As the Elphinstone Road station accident today demonstrated, Mumbai still has miles to go before it resolves its infrastructure woes. Shishir AsthanaMoneycontrol Research Why is it that in India people have to die to wake up the government? Irrespective of… Continue Reading →
The award, which honours human rights defenders, went to the two activists for their “decades of campaigning for human rights” in Jammu and Kashmir. Parveena Ahangar and Parvez Imroz. Credit: Facebook/YouTube New Delhi: Parveena Ahangar, who is popularly referred to as… Continue Reading →