M. Burhanuddin Qasmi Konkan Flood 2021 Extremely heavy downpour in the Western Ghats, also known as Sahyadri ranges, and discharge of water from Koyna and Kolkewadi dams flooded shallow rivers of coastal Konkan region leading to devastation in Raigad and Ratnagiri districts on 22 July 2021. The flooding began just in the late evening following...
Religion is a faith in human mind. It teaches us the purpose of life, discipline our body and groom our soul. A prayer from each heart is very deep and full of hope. The chief and sole motto of every religion is ‘God is one and adores mankind’. A religious brotherhood and spread of affection...
“My mother has been asking me about detention centers,” my friend recently told me on the phone. “She has been very worried.” My first reaction was shame. She is Muslim and I am Hindu. That never meant anything to us when we first met, studied together and hung out in New York. When her mother...
In 2019, religious freedom conditions in India experienced a drastic turn downward, with religious minorities under increasing assault. Following the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) re-election in May, the national government used its strengthened parliamentary majority to institute national level policies violating religious freedom across India, especially for Muslims. The national government allowed violence against minorities...
The number of coronavirus cases in India surged to 29,974 on Tuesday evening after 1594 new cases were reported in the last 24 hours, Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said. Addressing a press conference here, Lav Agarwal, Joint Secretary MoHFW, said that no new COVID-19 cases have been reported from 17 districts of...
Three back-to-back developments over the past week prove that the Gulf Kingdoms are finally waking up to Hindu extremists’ inherent Islamophobia, the threat of which Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has been warning about for a while now, suggesting that the rest of the world might eventually follow suit as more people become aware of...
As we know that the world is in the grip of a raging coronavirus pandemic and uncertainty and fear are gripping everywhere. Amidst the widespread of Covid 19 when every country is taking steps to contain and trying to find a way to tackle one of the worst disease of recent times, TV anchors and...
India is on the path to developing a sprawling surveillance state along the lines of China’s own surveillance model. The contact tracing techniques developed for the COVID-19 pandemic are now accelerating the process of deploying surveillance technologies in India. The government of India has launched its own contact tracing app called Aarogya Setu. In a...
Appeal to Hon’ble President and Prime Minister of India to take adequate measures to stop spread of communal hatred in the country. We the people of India are passing through a severe test of time in the form of Coronavirus as is the case with large majority of human population on the planet earth. It...
Darshan Mondkar Corruption in India has always been an perennial problem. As common middle class people, we are aware of the corruption around us and are impacted by it on a regular basis, though we might not have dealt with it directly. So, in 2014, when Modi came riding on the white clean horse of...