Month July 2020
The remark was made by Justice Bharti Dangre while granting bail to a 24-year-old accused in a 2019 rape and molestation case. 24 July, 2020 2:15 pm IST Mumbai: There cannot be a straight-jacket formula as to how a woman would… Continue Reading →
अल्लाम अशरफ़ सच बात जो कहूँ और मेरा सिर न फोड़ा जाए, आओ कुछ यूँ करें दिलों को जोड़ा जाए, मोमिन का घर बिखरे तो महेश को बुलाओ, नरेश का घर बनाने अब्दुल बुलाया जाए. मांस न खाओ कह रहे… Continue Reading →
Kamayani Bali Mahabal disputed the claim that her complaint was anonymous and that she didn’t attach a mandatory form. Activist who complained about sex selection advice in a magazine is told her complaint didn’t meet rule requirements The next time you grumble… Continue Reading →
The virus has the capacity to temporarily disrupt electoral democracy. But there are constitutional and political calculations that would come into play. No government can remain in office after its term is over. This implies that Governor’s Rule would have… Continue Reading →
Anganwadi workers with demands at Unnao district magistrate’s office Citing the recent death of an anganwadi worker, Kamini Nigam, working in Unnao district due to coronavirus infection and lack of treatment facility, Workers’ Front, an Uttar Pradesh-based civil rights organization,… Continue Reading →
An inquiry into the naturalisation of totalitarian surveillance in the name of the COVID-19 pandemic
Revisiting the Panopticon and the Synopticon by- Gopal Krishna Ideas and ideologies can kill.[i]Derived from two Greek words that together mean “all-seeing”, the panopticon was initially conceived as a prison designed to ensure the perfectly complete surveillance of all prisoners…. Continue Reading →
The fact that Dubey was yet to be charged under any law while Rao has been charged under a special law should not blind us to the essential similarity they share — the state took unfair advantage of its custodial… Continue Reading →
Police say that on May 21, two senior Maoists were killed in Dantwada after an encounter. However, kin of one of them say that he was just 15-years-old. DantwadaJuly 24, 2020UPDATED: July 24, 2020 09:47 IST Rishu Istam and Ramsingh… Continue Reading →
JATINDER KAUR TUR24 July 2020 A morning routine of paying obeisance and performing sewa—service—at a local gurduwara, went nightmarishly wrong for a ten-year-old girl, a Mazhabi Sikh resident of Rampura village, in Punjab’s Sangrur district. The Mazhabi Sikhs are a community… Continue Reading →
The Hindus for Human Rights (HHR), a US-based advocacy group, has noticed a major dichotomy between the stance taken by RSS’ US arm, Hindu Swayamsewak Sangh (HSS), expressing “shock” at the “painful killing of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery,… Continue Reading →