https://www.livelaw.in/columns/uapa-wrecking-lives-what-is-the-human-cost-177234 This article is not about how the draconian Unlawful Activities Prevention Act(UAPA) is leading to blatant violations of civil liberties and how the act is being used to criminalize dissent. Much has been written…
Will Aligarh Muslim University remain an institution for…
Since India's independence in 1947, the continuance of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) as an institution of higher education for the Muslims of India has faced a question mark. In the continuing onslaught of reactionary forces…
Prime land for a song
MUMBAI: Guess what Richardson & Cruddas pays for a 1064.39 square metre plot at Byculla? All of 69 paise as annual lease rent. What’s more, the lease expired in 1992. This is just…
GenX Kashmiri Pandits take on militants
LANGAITE-KUPWARA: It has been 17 years since Vikas Kumar last saw snow. Though Kashmiri by birth, Vikas was just five years old when his ancestral house in Kupwara was burnt down by militants and the…
Zee attack: Sena activists ransack Godbole`s residence
Pune, Feb 11: At least 10 Shiv Sena activists today barged into the residential premises of Shrigan Godbole here, the script writer of the controversial skit "kaka Mala Vachwa" (uncle, protect me) and three of…
Guns from North sell like hot cakes in…
SURAT/AHMEDABAD: Gujarat could be seeing a fatal trend on the rise: youths turning trigger happy with illegal possession of firearms, mostly procured from Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. Last Monday, a computer engineering student, Dhruval…
Modi resumes Hindutva chant
SUBIR (DANGS): "Aa laut ke aaja mere meet, tujhe mere geet bulati hai..," this soulful Mukesh number was no Valentine Day ballad, but Morari Bapu's chant asking tribal converts to return to the Hindu fold.…
Italian Judge dismisses case over existence of Jesus
Rome, Feb. 10 (AP): An Italian judge dismissed an atheist's case that a small-town priest should stand trial for asserting that Jesus Christ existed, a lawyer said today. The priest's accuser, Luigi Cascioli, contended the…
Funds for Dalits cut in MP State plan
Manish Dixit, Bhopal, February 9, 2006 FOR A party that won more than 90 per cent seats reserved for the Scheduled Castes and Tribes in the last assembly election, BJP’s ‘ingratitude’ to the Dalit class…