Month September 2017
Section 377 has become untenable in the light of Supreme Court’s historic privacy judgment I By Ajit Prakash Shah and Vrinda Bhandari In its historic judgment in ‘Justice Puttaswamy vs Union of India’, the Supreme Court held that privacy is a… Continue Reading →
`Warned govt about cost of DeMon’ Sidhartha & Surojit Gupta In an exclusive interview to TOI, former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan says though the Modi government’s intent was good, demonetisation came at a substantial cost Former Reserve Bank of India… Continue Reading →
GITA ARAVAMUDAN Why is India dragging its feet on criminalising marital rape? A woman who is trapped in a relationship in which she is forced to have sex against her wishes is just a sex slave. Even worse: a married… Continue Reading →
Veteran conservationist compares situation to a nationwide action he led against the Franklin Dam in Tasmania in the 1980s Australian Associated Press Veteran conservationist Bob Brown has criticised the “destructive wealth and arrogance” of Indian mining group Adani at a Sydney protest… Continue Reading →
Code of silence makes death more likely for Indian assault victims Women who are assaulted in India are 40 times more likely to die from their injuries than their US counterparts, with social factors mostly to blame for the gaping… Continue Reading →
A.S.R.P. Mukesh Ranchi, Sept. 1: An engineering student in Jharkhand, with the help of a banking agent, linked his Aadhaar number with the savings account of a college to embezzle more than Rs 11 lakh in 30 days, exposing a serious… Continue Reading →
By Chandra Muzaffar The Rohingyas — or at least some Rohingyas — are now being projected as terrorists, as “Jihadists” out to kill Myanmar soldiers and civilians. Myanmar leaders including Aung San SuuKyi have spoken along these lines. This… Continue Reading →
State violence against people a concern to date, say activists Against State repression: Goutam Navlaka, a member of People’s Union for Democratic Rights, addressing the national convention at Sundaraiah Vignana Kendram in the city on Saturday. They are in city… Continue Reading →
by Asem Chanu Manimala — Co-Written by Shyamal Bikash Chakma & Asem Chanu Manimala The construction and articulation of identity and nationalism is not a new discourse in the North-East India. This discourse has also succeeded in suppressing the voices and narratives of… Continue Reading →
By Bunny McDiarmid Looking back, one of the key moments that was to define both my professional and personal path was the moment I stepped onto the small atoll of Rongelap, in the Pacific Ocean. It was May 17, 1985… Continue Reading →