A man identified as Mohammad Furqan has been succumbed to injuries he received sword hit in Bhajanpura area of Jaffrabad, hours after a head constable named Ratan Lal (a native of Sikar, Rajasthanwas) was killed in the clashes that broke out between pro- and anti-CAA groups in the aftermath of the tension that escalated in...
Incidence of violent clashes and firing have been took place in the Chandbagh area in Jafrabadof, northeast Delhi as pro and anti CAA protesters clashed and threw stones at each other. One Petrol pump and two motorcycles have been set ablaze by protesters. Police fired tear gas shells and resorted to lathicharge to disperse the...
Divergent opinions and arguments regarding this issue have been expressed on recent judgement of supreme court on issue of Reservation. Through this article, I intend to highlight the fundamental points about the rationale of the policy of reservation as Affirmative Action. 1. Reservation is for social justice and equal representation of socially marginalized communities: Any...
All census questions must be answered. However NPR questions by all citizens who are willing to be satyagrahis must not be answered in an act of civil disobedience. If millions across the country refuse to answer the NPR questions and do not pay the fine and are willing to go to prison, the government will...
Superpower 2020 Indians entered the current decade with bated breath, having been indoctrinated since shortly before the turn of the century with the completely false expectation that their country would finally become a “superpower” by 2020. They didn’t know exactly what this would mean in practice, but it sounded prestigious enough and was a welcome...
Since the Shaheen Bagh protests started, the road from Jamia to Noida has been closed by the Delhi police. Now, it was reopened when media reports have questioned the roadblocks by the police that have obstructed alternative routes in the area. The closure of the road had been a major point of contention against the...
The JNUSU would like to bring the following to the notice of everyone concerned. We all know that the horrific violence on January 5th in the campus perpetrated by the ABVP, Cyclopse Security and JNUTF involved a high level of coordination. It has come to the notice of the JNUSU that people who were part...
First time in independent India, the nation has witnessed most disciplined, systematic, secularists and peaceful protest against black laws i.e. Citizenship Amendment Act 2019. It would be fraud with the truth to paint this most peaceful protest at Shaheen Bagh as protest of a particular community. The brave women soldiers of Shaheen Bagh are not...
18 February, 2020 marks the 37th anniversary of one of the worst-ever genocides committed in post-1947 India against Muslims in Assam, that is, the Nellie Massacre. (via Nooriya Jamil, Muslim Memo) Three decades have passed, and not even a single assailant has so far been convicted, yet alone prosecuted, for this heinous atrocity. On the...
Multiple shots fired at Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Mehrauli MLA Naresh Yadav’s convoy and volunteers accompanying him to his home after victory procession. Firing happened while he was returning from temple. One party volunteer died and another sustained injured in the incident. The claims were made by Aam Aadmi Party on its official Twitter handle....