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United States to Lift Sudan Sanctions

United Nations peacekeepers at a refugee camp in Sudan on Monday. In exchange for the lifting of United States trade sanctions, Sudan has said it will improve access for aid groups, stop supporting rebels in neighboring South Sudan and cooperate… Continue Reading →

“Humiliated” by post-note ban events, RBI staff write to Urjit Patel

Feeling “humiliated” by events since demonetisation, RBI employees today wrote to Governor Urjit Patel protesting against operational “mismanagement” in the exercise and Government impinging its autonomy by appointing an official for currency coordination. l In a letter, they said autonomy… Continue Reading →

India – Project Of Defiance #Aadhaar

Governments are making Aadhaar mandatory in contravention of court orders  by Apar Gupta , Prasanna S | The Supreme Court has passed a series of interim orders to prohibit the imposition and limit the application of Aadhaar.One reason for the… Continue Reading →

Dalit Panther Bhagwat Jadhav’s martyrdom day celebrated in Mumbai

January 12, 2017 Kabir Kala Manch performing at the function Text and video by Shiva Thorat, Twocircles.net The 43rd martyrdom day of Bhagwat Jadhav, a prominent Dalit leader of the 70s, was marked in Mumbai on January 10 at the… Continue Reading →

How Russia Decided to Allow a Little Domestic Violence #WTFnews

By Leonid Bershidsky On Wednesday, the Russian parliament gave preliminary approval to a bill decriminalizing domestic violence. It’s part of President Vladimir Putin‘s push for a return to traditional family values. Vladimir Putin In the summer of 2016, Russia got its first… Continue Reading →

India’s Digital ID Rollout Collides With Rickety Reality #Aadhaar #UID

Gnarled hands, shoddy internet can complicate access to massive registry   India‘s government is giving a unique ID to each of its 1.2 billion citizens, creating the world’s largest biometric data set. But the rollout has hit snags. Jagvati Khandelwal,… Continue Reading →

Telangana lawyer gets trolled after KCR publicly names her for fighting land acquisition #Vaw

Supporters of the Chief Minister have begun a campaign of calumny and character assassination against her on social media. Padmaja Shaw|   Rachana Reddy Bollu is in the news, but not because she wants to be. The Chief Minister of… Continue Reading →

Move over Mahatma, let Modi take over

  – Tireless mascot’s thankless task Anita Joshua New Delhi, Jan. 12: His admirers say he has worn khadi “since the very early days when he was working for the RSS”. He has chanted the mantra “Khadi for nation, Khadi… Continue Reading →

India – The #Demonetisation Fiasco: Not Even a Pinprick To Black Economy

  NEW DELHI: The demonetisation of 86 percent of the currency of the country, a virtually unprecedented measure anywhere in the world, has brought immense hardship to the working people of the country, and will damage their living standards permanently… Continue Reading →

EMERGENCY IN BASTAR Human rights defenders under attack, democracy in peril

    “ Democracy is being choked to death in Chhattisgarh” warned Advocate K. Savithri, a member of the Telengana Democratic Forum and wife of Advocate Balla Ravindranath, one of the seven members of a fact-finding team on their way… Continue Reading →

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