मुजफ्फरपुर बालिका गृह मामले में सीबीआई को बड़ी सफलता हाथ लगी है. लम्बे अरसे से फरार ब्रजेश ठाकुर की राजदार मधु अब पुलिस के गिरफ्त में आ गयी है. मीडिया रिपोर्ट्स के मुताबिक मधु को सीबीआई द्वारा नेपाल के वीरगंज के एक होटल से गिरफ्तार कर लिये जाने की सूचना है. लेकिन अभी तक किसी...
मुजफ्फरपुर मामले में मंत्री मंजू वर्मा के पति चंद्रशेखर वर्मा की और ब्रजेश के बीच जनवरी से अब तक 17 बार फोन पर बातचीत होने का खुलासा जब आया तो विपक्ष और भी हमलावर हो गया. इसी दरम्यान सीएम नीतीश कुमार ने मंजू वर्मा को अपने आवास पर बुलाया. मंत्री मंजू वर्मा ने सीएम से...
Muthuvel Karunanidhi, former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and president of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, passed away at a private hospital in Chennai on August 7 after prolonged illness. He was 94. The end came at 6.10 p.m., hours after theKauvery Hospital announced that he was “extremely critical” and “unstable”. Mr. Karunanidhi was under treatment at...
People know a lot about discrimination in judiciary, media, government, banks, universities, corporate houses and other sectors. But not many know about discrimination that happens in civil society on the issue of Muslims. My attempt today is to describe what happens to a young activist who attempts to speak as a Muslim. I dare to...
What is happening to Swiss-born Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan in France is disgraceful and simply ignominious. I can no longer maintain my silence before this grotesque travesty of justice. Since rape charges were filed against him in France, Ramadan’s case has been marred by procedural irregularities. In fact, Ramadan’s mistreatment by the French courts and his virtual public lynching...
Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, which translates to the Pakistan Movement For Justice and is commonly known by its abbreviation as the PTI, came out on top in the latest elections after campaigning on a strong anti-corruption platform, but it was nevertheless a supposedly “controversial” victory because of the opposition’s claims of “military rigging” and the...
THIS SUNDAY THE entire New York Times Magazine will be composed of just one article on a single subject: the failure to confront the global climate crisis in the 1980s, a time when the science was settled and the politics seemed to align. Written by Nathaniel Rich, this work of history is filled with insider revelations about...
A seven-year-old deaf and mute girl with injuries all over her legs and arms narrated her ordeal before a magistrate in Muzaffarpur last month. A fellow inmate translated her frantic signs into numbing words for the judge, detailing sexual assault on her. She was among the youngest victims of what has come to be known...
Previously, the United States sanctioned Turkey’s Minister of Justice Abdulhamit Gul and Minister of Interior Suleyman Soylu for their roles in the arrest and detention of US pastor Andrew Brunson. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ordered the country’s authorities to freeze the Turkish assets of the US ministers of justice and interior in response to Washington’s restrictive measures over the detention of US...
Hajela’s team made an unpleasant joke with peasantry of Assam and a gigantic mockery of public resources By M. Burhanuddin Qasmi Nearly 33 years after the Assam Accord was signed in 1985 between then Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and All Assam Students Union (AASU), the Assam state Coordinator for National Register of Citizens...