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Minorities
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The serious situation which Muslim community, particularly the young Muslim generation is confronting in India, was projected years ago, by the communal forces and since then they also have started to implement their longstanding plan. The fire which was ignited during the freedom struggle of the country, after the freedom by sprinkling the oil of the partition, the fire was further intensified to such an extent that all the methods adopted by the Muslim's to eliminate or minimize its heat went in vain.
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Op Ed
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Is unfettered Internet access a fundamental human right? Given their recent -- and widely covered -- spat with China over censorship laws, Google appears to assert that Internet censorship is an important enough issue to pull out of the People's Republic altogether, even though China has the largest online community in the world.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also made clear in her address Thursday at The Newseum in Washington, D.C., that the Internet is a powerful tool for promoting democracy and human rights, and should not be repressed by any government or institution. (The Chinese Foreign Ministry responded on Friday, lashing out at Clinton's criticism and claiming the address was "harmful to Sino-American relations.")
But is Internet freedom itself a human right -- an entitlement that no just nation could infringe upon?
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Op Ed
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A new book curiously titled Who Killed Hemant Karkare? says a nationwide network of Hindutva terror that has its tentacles spread up to Nepal and Israel is out to destroy the India most Indians have known for ages and to remould it into some kind of Afghanistan under the Taliban. The writer, a former IG Police of Maharashtra, SM Mushrif, has reconstructed a fearsome picture out of former Maharashtra ATS chief Hemant Karkare’s chargesheet against alleged Hindutva terrorists like Lt. Col. Purohit, Sadhvi Pragyasingh Thakur and others.
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StateViolations
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Mumbai: Who killed Shahid Azmi? While clear clues are still absent a day after the high-profile criminal lawyer was shot dead at his Kurla office, some in the legal fraternity and inner circle believe he was bumped off for being ‘anti-establishment’ and ‘anti-police’.
Pegging his argument on the ‘motive’ behind the crime, senior Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan alleged that the only people who could have had a motive in getting rid of Azmi were the police. “Shahid is the only lawyer who had the maximum cases showing that the police were fabricating evidence,” Bhushan said.
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Campaigns
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The United Nations high commissioner for human rights, Navi Pillay, has issued a strong and eloquent call on the world to end caste discrimination like it did apartheid and slavery. The organizations Human Rights Watch, the National Confederation of Human Rights Organizations (NCHRO, India) the National Campaign On Dalit Human Rights, and the International Dalit Solidarity Network have all endorsed Pillay’s and the UN’s initiative on the issue.
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