Day September 11, 2018
The government advisory on the use of the word shows its intent to further marginalise the community In pre-Independence India and after 1947, during the several unyielding movements for justice for Dalits, multiple terms have been used to convey… Continue Reading →
Rema Nagarajan| TNN | Eight years after the Medical Council of India (MCI) headed by him was dissolved by the government for corruption charges, corruption cases against Dr Ketan Desaicontinue to be dropped because sanction for his prosecution has been refused. The latest such instance… Continue Reading →
Panchayat in Aligarh offered Rs 80,000 as compensation to a minor who was gangraped by four. When the victim’s brother tried to file a police complaint, he was not allowed to step out of the village. Aligarh: A 14-year-old minor girl… Continue Reading →
They survived the bloody riots in September, but the winter chill seems determined to do some real harm to over 50,000 people displaced during the Muzaffarnagar riots and now living in dozen-odd relief camps. One of these – Malakpur… Continue Reading →
. Umar Khalid, a PhD scholar of Jawaharlal Nehru University was attacked by a gun-wielding assailant inside the premises of the Constitution Club on 13 August. It should be noted that this incident took place in a high security… Continue Reading →
Yogendra Yadav was visiting Tiruvannamalai district to meet party representatives and some farmers’ families who were ostensibly affected by the land acquisition for the proposed Chennai-Salem greenfield corridor project. Express News Service | Yogendra Yadav was detained by Tamil Nadu police… Continue Reading →
Arresting activists is an attack on dissent in keeping with UAPA’s history On August 28, the Pune police mounted raids across several cities,taking into custody five civil liberties activists, invoking that dreaded anti-terror law, the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act… Continue Reading →
175 plus faculty, students sign statement NEW DELHI: We, a group of alumni of IIT Kanpur and others as students, researchers, faculty, staff and other community members affiliated with the same institute strongly condemn the arrest of IIT Kanpur alumna Sudha… Continue Reading →
The chain of arrest, custody, and remand must be linked only by due process The power of arrest is an extraordinary one, conferred on the police to be employed with discretion and deliberation, not as a tool of oppression and… Continue Reading →
Anupam Saraph Identification is a responsible process. It requires someone to take responsibility of identification. UIDAI wants to use the photographs associated with Aadhaar as a means to recognise persons. This must indeed be some feat considering most of… Continue Reading →