Visitors: 167 [embedyt] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3QVEAzq4FM[/embedyt] Fellow citizens, Namaskar to all. This will be the last edition of Mann ki Baat in 2015. The next edition of Mann ki Baat will be in 2016. We celebrated Christmas and preparations are now on to ring in the New Year. India is land of diversities.. We celebrate a whole […]
Visitors: 162 Your Excellency President Ghani, Your Excellency, Chief Executive Dr. Abdulla, Honorable Speaker of Wolesi Jirga and the Chairman of Meshraon Jirga, Distinguished Members of both Houses. Eight centuries ago, a famous son of Balkh Province, one of the greatest poets in human history, Jalaluddin Rumi, wrote, “Raise your words, not your voice. It […]
Visitors: 193 Your Excellency President Vladimir Putin, Members the Media, Let me begin by expressing my deepest condolences on the loss of lives in the terrorist attack on a civilian Russian aircraft and in the unfortunate downing of the military jet in Syria. In this moment of grief and challenge, we stand in solidarity with […]
Visitors: 187 The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, today chaired the Combined Commanders’ Conference on board INS Vikramaditya at Sea, off the coast of Kochi. This is the first time that the Combined Commanders’ Conference has been held on board an aircraft carrier. The Prime Minister inspected a Tri-services Guard of Honour this morning at […]
Visitors: 264 Your Excellency, Prime Minister Abe, Members of the media, I am delighted to welcome Prime Minister Abe to India. It is a great pleasure to host a personal friend and a great champion of India-Japan partnership. No partner has played such a decisive role in India’s economic transformation as Japan. No friend will […]
Visitors: 2,034 Viswa Ghosh The first — and most damaging — myth is that China is in Africa only to extract natural resources. There is no question that the continent’s vast natural resource endowments are a big draw for Chinese firms — just as they are for Western oil and minerals giants like Shell, ExxonMobil, […]
Visitors: 265 Dr. Pritam Rohila, PhD retired Neuropsychologist, Chair of Oregonians for Peace. He resides in Keizer, USA In 1937, the Imperial Japanese Army killed about 200,000 Chinese civilians and raped many of their women. During Nazi rule in Germany, from 1933 through 1945, Jews and other “non-Aryan” races were subjected to various atrocities, which included segregation, […]
Visitors: 180 NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF PEOPLE'S MOVEMENTS National Office: 6/6 Jangpura B, New Delhi – 110 014 www.napm-india.org SAMAAJ – SANSADHAN – SAMVIDHAN BACHAO National Convention & Felicitation of Intellectuals, Writers and Cultural Activists 6 December 2015 | 9 AM – 5 PM Gandhi Peace Foundation, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Marg, New Delhi AN INVITATION In […]
Visitors: 223 GLOBAL FREEDOM NETWORK http://www.globalfreedomnetwork.org/ All-faith call recognizes Modi Government’s initiatives against human trafficking, creation of national anti-trafficking body. Pledge to tackle modern slavery, including bonded labour, forced marriage, child labour& human trafficking New Delhi, December 3, 2015: Eleven Indian faith and spiritual leaders signed a joint declaration to end modern slavery within a generation […]
Visitors: 317 Save Indian Family Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Save_Indian_Family_Foundation Recently, Menaka Gandhi has requested the Law Ministry to give legal validity to pre-nuptial agreements. She showed her concern that women are not getting enough alimony during separation or divorce. However, she is just not in touch with ground realities and what happens in family courts. India's alimony […]
Visitors: 249 Introduction: Given the ease with which a case can be filed in India, especially against men, what does one do, when faced with a false criminal case and the police is hounding an innocent? Naturally, the person would apply for anticipatory bail and thus approach courts. However, when the very courts use […]
Visitors: 179 N.S.Venkataraman Nandini Voice For The Deprived The term activist is now sending confusing signals in India ,as several people in various walks of life claim that they are activists for one cause or the other or for several causes at the same time. Whatever may be their colour or background, one image associated […]
Visitors: 160 Aires Rodrigues The Right to Information Act which came into force on October 12th 2005 is now a decade old. The Right to Information Act was enacted to ensure transparency and accountability in governance. But the manner in which the government is subtly subverting the Right to Information Act is a matter of concern. A well informed citizenry, […]
Visitors: 212 N.S.Venkataraman Nadini Voice For The Deprived As one opens the newspapers or television , it is seen that the corrupt dealings , murders , rape , assault , dacoity and several such unsavoury incidents are given all the prominence . Inevitably, the good deeds , praise worthy efforts and lofty behaviour of individuals […]
Visitors: 162 Dr. Chaman Lal Retired Professor, JNU, New Delhi (A letter to the chairman, Sahitya Akademi) Dear Dr. Vishwanath Tewari, With a sense of anguish, I have sent my covering letter along with a cheque for 15000/ rupees, which I received from Sahitya Akademi in year 2002 as part of National Translation Prize […]
Visitors: 231 Peace Channel Desk Nagaland Peace Channel conducted one day Capacity Building programme for its peace club leaders, members and teacher coordinators on October 10, at the Peace Channel Conference Hall, Dimapur. While addressing the gathering Rev. Dr. C.P.Anto the director of Peace Channel and Principal NEISSR said that we need to capacitate the […]
Visitors: 206 Team members: Bonojit Hussain (New Socialist Initiative), Deepti Sharma (Saheli), Kiran Shaheen (writer and activist), Naveen Chander (New Socialist Initiative), Sanjay Kumar (People’s Alliance for Democracy and Secularism and New Socialist Initiative) and Sanjeev Kumar (Delhi Solidarity Group). On the night of 28 September, in a heinous instance of hate crime Mdohammad Akhlaq […]
Visitors: 188 N.S.Venkataraman Nandini Voice For The Deprived It is distressing to know that in the first phase of the Bihar assembly polls, more than 170 candidates have criminal cases against them including murder charges and 137 of them contesting from 37 seats have been booked for serious non bailable offences. While the […]
Visitors: 253 A 90-year-old Dalit man was attacked with a pick-axe and then set on fire by an upper caste man, when he tried to enter a temple in Uttar Pradesh's Hamirpur district on Wednesday. According to Hindustan Times, Chimma, along with his wife, son, and brother turned up at the temple, when a man called […]
Visitors: 178 Join a Citizens' Protest Vigil on 2 Oct at Jantar Mantar 3pm onwards ! A 22-year old young Muslim man is lying in hospital, brutally beaten up by a bloodthirsty mob. His 52-year old father is dead. Killed, bashed to death with bricks, by the same mob. Their ‘crime’? The ‘mob’ claimed they had killed […]
Visitors: 212 Announcing Women Convention : Challenges before Indian Women in Contemporary India Conference Room, 2nd Floor, ND Tiwari Bhawan, Near Gandhi Peace Foundation Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Marg, Near ITO, New Delhi October 2-3, 2015 —– October 2, 2015 9.00 am – 10.00 : Registration & Tea 10.00 – 11.00 : Challenges before Indian Women in Contemporary India (Speaker: Usha Ramanathan) […]
Visitors: 253 Prof. Dr Ram Puniyani (Rtd) IIT Bombay The country is undergoing a regressive attack in different fields of life. Apart from the political undermining of secularism, pluralism and Indian nationalism, the cultural pluralism and valued syncretic traditions are also under severe attack. The intensity is increasing. On the back of the murders of […]
Visitors: 219 Viswa Ghosh Stopping us from polluting Ganges has nothing to do with pseudo-secularism. It is time our sadhus start growing up and seeing things as they are… If our sadhus are contributing to Ganges pollution, how many of the sadhus contribute to cleaning up Indian cities, rivers and lakes? I think it is […]
Visitors: 1,819 [themify_box] Jason Hickel PhD anthropologist at the London School of Economics and author of The Divide: A New History of Global Inequality. He received his PhD in Anthropology from the University of Virginia in 2011. [/themify_box] [themify_quote]As the UN’s new sustainable development goals are launched in New York, there’s little to celebrate about the business-as-usual approach[/themify_quote] […]
Visitors: 396 Paul Gottinger, staff reporter at Reader Supported News (RSN) whose work focuses on the Middle East and the arms industry Error attacks have jumped by a stunning 6,500% since 2002, according to a new analysis by Reader Supported News. The number of casualties resulting from terror attacks has increased by 4,500% over this same time period. […]