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Why put Lenin in the dustbin of BJP history?
On March 6 evening, as news began to filter in of a Lenin statue being razed in south Tripura, Rajat Sethi, a member of BJP general secretary Ram Madhav’s team which had just conquered Tripura, tweeted, “Stalin falls in Tripura!”
In his…
India, Vietnam lay stress on defence ties
India and Vietnam committed to enhancing joint co-production in defence, including transfer of technology from India in their ongoing defence cooperation, visiting President Tran Dai Quang and Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on…
Kathua: Party lines blur in communal haze over rape, murder of seven-year-old in J&K
Hindu Ekta Manch president Vijay Kumar Sharma is cut up about prohibitory orders being imposed for a month in Kathua district from February 20. “We have heard of prohibitory orders for a few days, but what is this one month?” he asks,…
असमां जहांगीर, एक असली जांबाज़ महिला
असमां जहांगीर नहीं रहीं. अचानक, लगभग हतप्रभ कर देने वाली, मौत (दिल का दौरा) ने उन्हें हमसे ऐसे समय छीन लिया जब इस क्षेत्र को उनकी सबसे ज्यादा जरुरत थी. जब युद्ध का उन्माद चरम पर हो और भारत और पाकिस्तान के बीच नफ़रत की भाषा हावी हो, दर्जनों…
Long Live Asma Jahangir
By Marvi Sirmed
If death is defined as the end of life, Asma Jahangir hasn’t really died. The larger than life, iconic defender of human rights and the most daring challenger of the status quo, Asma Jahangir breathed her last at her home…
Asma Jahangir, Pakistan rights icon and feisty fighter at the barricades, dies
On September 30, 2007, over 500 lawyers clashed with police outside the Pakistan Supreme Court in Islamabad over the election commission accepting General Pervez Musharraf as a presidential poll candidate despite serious questions over his…
Leading human rights lawyer Asma Jahangir passes away in Lahore
Renowned senior lawyer and human rights activist Asma Jahangir passed away in Lahore on Sunday, DawnNews reported.
She is survived by a son and two daughters.
The family told DawnNews that Jahangir had suffered from a cardiac arrest and was…
Who’s afraid of laughing women?
Written by Mrinal Pande
As girls, our generation was often reprimanded for walking with long, manly strides or laughing out loud. Girls from good families were only permitted to giggle when teased by fathers, brothers and uncles or when…
Mohamed Nasheed’s call for India’s intervention very irresponsible… Emergency a necessity: Dunya…
Maldives crisis: The Indian government has already issued two statements criticising the political chaos in the Maldives and especially “disturbed” by the imposition of Emergency.
The complexity of the ongoing crisis in the Maldives has…
In Fact: India, Bhutan and China, geopolitics lesson, reaffirming an old friendship.
Perhaps one of the biggest learnings from the 72-day standoff at Doklam is the need for India to reach out more to the people of Bhutan.
Just over a year ago in Tashkent, President Xi Jinping had turned down Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s…