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It’s been a week of celebration and triumph by the national gush media here over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s extravagant spectacle of his first state visit to the US. This, irrespective of the fact that the US mainstream media, from major television news networks from CNN, and ABC, to newspapers like the Washington Post, the New York […]
New Delhi: After enduring 960 days of incarceration, activist-scholar Atiqur Rahman said that he was targeted for being a Muslim and that his continued imprisonment convinced him that “there is nothing called democracy left in India”. On October 5, 2020, Rahman was arrested along with journalist Siddique Kappan and two others, Masood Ahmad and Mohammed Alam, while on their way […]
Mumbai: Since 2000, at the end of every year, the National Crime Record Bureau or NCRB has published data on deaths that occur in Indian jails. This is the only publicly available data on deaths in jails and gives a general sense of what circumstances lead to these deaths. Classified under “natural” and “unnatural” deaths, for […]
New Delhi: Barely a day had passed since his return to India from diplomatic visits and Prime Minister Narendra Modi trained his guns on the opposition parties and their efforts to join ranks against the BJP ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. At a congregation of the BJP’s booth-level workers in Bhopal on Tuesday, […]
Amid the buzz around weight loss drugs and rising rates of obesity worldwide, many healthcare professionals are questioning one of the key measures that have long been used to define obesity. On June 14, 2023, the American Medical Association adopted a new policy, calling on doctors to deemphasize the role of body mass index, or BMI, in clinical practice. […]
Read the following conversation between a young woman, nine days short of her 27th birthday, born and brought up by a single, widowed, cancer-survivor mother in a village in Haryana, a graduate from the Maharishi Dayanand University, Rohtak, on national television, with the Prime Minister of a country with the second largest population in the world and the […]
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has said that conducting a caste survey during the national census is challenging due to administrative, legal, and technical issues. Opposition parties, including social justice parties and the Congress, have been demanding a caste census on a national basis to determine reservations for Other Backward Communities (OBCs) in jobs and educational institutions. […]
New Delhi: A total of 194 journalists, including seven women journalists, were targeted across India in 2022, according to the Rights and Risks Analysis Group (RRAG). These journalists were targeted by state agencies, non-state political actors and criminals, and the armed opposition groups. Jammu and Kashmir experienced the highest number of targeted journalists (48), followed by Telangana (40). […]
New Delhi: Sabrina Siddiqui, the White House correspondent of the Wall Street Journal who asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi a question on alleged discrimination of minorities in India during his visit to the US, came under a targeted attack from pro-Hindutva social media users, particularly on Twitter. The online attack on Siddiqui, highlighting her Muslim heritage and connections […]
New Delhi: Thousands of protesters from the Kuki community on Saturday (June 24) gathered outside Churachandpur’s Lamka Medical College, holding empty coffins, for a march from the college to the DC office. The march was held in honour of those who were killed in the Manipur violence and in solidarity with the survivors and their families. […]
The United States government officials have said that H-1B visa holders could soon renew their visas within the country. Almost 73% of H-1B visa holders as of 2022 are Indian citizens and the remarks by US officials come as Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on his first state visit to the country. “… The United States […]
At least three delegations of politicians from conflict-ridden Manipur – two from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and one from the state Congress – have failed to have an audience with Prime Minister Narendra Modi so far in spite of having camped at the National Capital for some days now. While Manipur has seen a […]
A sessions court in Halol town in Gujarat has acquitted 35 people who were accused of murder and rioting during the state’s 2002 riots. Justice Harsh B. Trivedi said on Monday, June 12 that there was no evidence that the accused committed the offences they were charged with and chastised “pseudo-secular persons” for prolonging trial […]
New Delhi: The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) is reportedly investigation eye drops manufactured by Gujarat-based Indiana Ophthalmics which have allegedly caused eye infections in more than 30 people in Sri Lanka. These eye drops were recalled by Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Health in April this year with “immediate effect”, because patients at the country’s […]
Bengaluru: Sunil Kanugolu, a political strategist for the Congress party, who had been pivotal in the party’s election campaigns, has now been elevated to the role of Chief Advisor to Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah. This cabinet-rank position, officially announced on May 31, is a nod to the strategist’s significant contributions to the party’s recent victories. Kanugolu, […]
In a new report, the Daily Mail has reported that the violent ethnic clashes that took part in Leicester, UK last year were allegedly “stoked by Prime Minister Modi’s Hindu nationalist party”. Published during the weekend, the Daily Mail report points to the BJP’s ideology of Hindu nationalism, which prioritises the interests of the Hindu majority and has been […]
The recent controversy over the deletions of sections of the textbooks in Indian history written for Classes VI to XII and published by the NCERT raises a multitude of questions. Some of these have been discussed in the recent justified anger over the dismissive treatment of important historical statements and segments in the history textbooks, […]
As Karnataka enters the last phase of electioneering, the popular narrative is that the Congress is likely to trump the Bharatiya Janata Party in the assembly polls. Most pre-poll surveys indicate a clear lead for the Congress over the BJP, even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi unleashes his personal firepower in the final week of campaigning. The […]
Note:This is part 3 of Eedina’s survey report on Karnataka elections. You can read part 1 and part 2 here and here. New Delhi: A pre-poll survey conducted by the Kannada outlet Eedina says that Congress appears to be headed for a clear and comfortable majority, much beyond the 113-seat mark, in the forthcoming Karnataka assembly elections. The assembly […]
The print edition of Austrian newspaper the Wiener Zeitung, which has been published since 1703, will cease to exist after a decision made by Austria’s parliament on Thursday. The Austrian parliament adopted the law that puts an end to the current form of the daily in a majority vote. The publication has reported on everything from a young Mozart to the […]
