Month August 2018
Abhinandan Mishra Print Administrators manning the social media groups of terrorist outfits such as Lashkar-e-Tayyaba and Jaish-e-Mohammad are asking for the Aadhaar numbers of those who are seeking entry into their WhatsApp and Telegram groups. Independent security experts and government… Continue Reading →
Mumbai Mirror | Jennifer Mirza Citizens fighting to save BEST, whose services were municipalised on August 7, 1947, celebrated ‘BEST Day’ on Tuesday and released a revival plan I have been using the BEST service for almost 70 years now, and… Continue Reading →
The latest CAG report says the country might not meet the SDG goal as well with its current schemes By Richard Mahapatra The increase in drinking water coverage has not been encouraging. Credit: Sayantan Bera India has again failed to keep… Continue Reading →
Ishrat Jahan AHMEDABAD: A Special CBI court here on Tuesday rejected the discharge applications of former senior IPS officers of Gujarat – DG Vanzara and NK Amin – who are accused in the 2004 Ishrat Jahan fake encounter… Continue Reading →
What are the responsibilities of pro-feminist men in the Michael Kimmel sexual harassment case? #Vaw
Prominent sociologist and pro-feminist, Michael Kimmel, has been accused of unethical conduct. What should the response of academics and activists who identify as pro-feminist or feminist be? by ROBERT JENSEN The irony of one of the leading pro-feminist male scholars being… Continue Reading →
Vinita Deshmukh 08 August 2018 2 This is a distressing case of alleged sexual harassment of five women working as research associates or project assistants (PA) of a chief scientist at the prestigious Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute (Bhavnagar,… Continue Reading →
Soni Sori. File | Photo Credit: Arunangsu Roy Chowdhury Special Correspondent Tribal activist and Aam Aadmi Party leader in Chhattisgarh Soni Sori on Wednesday accused the security forces of killing 15 “innocent civilians” in the name of an anti-Maoist operation in… Continue Reading →
By Pooja Chaudhuri – “Fake Aadhaar available…Ib [Inbox] for deal,” reads one of the posts on a Facebook group “Help for Friends – Advertising Deals” or as its over 7,000 members call it “HFF”. HFF is a secret group and does not… Continue Reading →
The chillum-smoking, booze-swilling kanwariyas are evidence that young Hindus want to blow off steam. PALASH KRISHNA MEHROTRA According to one story, there were always men and women coming to Haridwar in the month of shravan. They would take a dip… Continue Reading →
Murali Neelakantan@grumpeoldman Swaraj Barooah@swarajpb Swagam Dasgupta@Swagam_Dasgupta Torsha Sarkar The year 2002 saw the introduction of a very ambitious National Program for Information Technology in the United Kingdom with the goal to transform the National Health Service — a pre-existing… Continue Reading →