Month August 2018
WSS Condemns Arrests of Sudha Bharadwaj, Vernon Gonsalves, Arun Ferreira, Gautam Navlakha and Varavara Rao WSS strongly condemns targeted attack on democratic rights activists, blatantly retributive actions of Maharashtra Police and demands immediate and unconditional release of all arrested activists,… Continue Reading →
Nayar was an intellectual, a journalist, an activist, a humanist. He suffered Partition and the Emergency but his experiences only strengthened his goodness. SY QURAISHI In a world too often governed by corruption and arrogance, it can be difficult to… Continue Reading →
Terms skeptics of RSS role in Kerala floods relief as “insects” NEW DELHI: August 24, 2018 — In a Twitter flamewar over the role of the nationalist paramilitary Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in providing relief to flood-struck Kerala, a speaker… Continue Reading →
Bhasker Tripathi, New Delhi: Kerala’s once-in-a-lifetime rainfall was 2,378 mm over 88 days, four times more than normal–but 30% less and spread over 61 days more than the deluge of 1924, the most intense flood in the state’s recorded history, submerging… Continue Reading →
By Satish Nandgaonkar and Sunil Baghel, Mumbai Mirror | PHOTO BY NILESH WAIRKAR Vipul Saxena claims the group is not affiliated to any political party but will target ‘anti-national media’.Two ultra-nationalists, an ex-pilot and aviation engineer from Mumbai and a Supreme Court… Continue Reading →
Women Against Sexual Violence and State Repression (WSS) strongly condemns the brutal systemic and systematic patterns of abuse, harassment and violence meted out to residents of Government institutions and shelters in Bihar. Furthermore, WSS stands in solidarity with all victims… Continue Reading →
By NUSRAT SIDIQ on August 11, 2018No Comment Srinagar: Hearing a contempt petition, the J&K High Court on Friday directed the state Chief Secretary to file response on why an order has been issued directing employees to link their Aadhar cards with biometric… Continue Reading →
Among these 22 youths was the man who allegedly shot at and killed Lankesh at the door of her Bengaluru home on September 5, 2017, police sources said. by Johnson T A | Bengaluru | U The Karnataka State Forensic Science Laboratory has… Continue Reading →
Edward Snowden Edward Snowden during the video conference on Saturday. From an undisclosed location, Edward Snowden came live amid gathering at media fest in Jaipur on Saturday. The US intelligence contractor turned whistleblower and freedom of press activist discussed on concern… Continue Reading →
Shreya Raman, Vehicles pass by a government of India poster around the World Hindi Conference in September, 2015. In its first 52 months in power, the National Democratic Alliance government spent Rs 4880 crore on publicity. Mumbai: Midday meals for 45.7… Continue Reading →