Sofi Ahsan Kerala based Hindu organisation, Sree Narayana Manava Dharmam Trust, has moved the Supreme Court challenging the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, arguing that the law threatens the very existence of the Muslim community in India. The trust, established in 2023 to study and dissemination of the values and teachings of the sage and philosopher… Read More Hindu body moves Supreme Court against Waqf Amendment Act
A year after the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, had suspended a Dalit PhD scholar on the charge of “misconduct” and “anti-national activities” because he took part in a protest rally against the Narendra Modi government, the Supreme Court has given him relief. Though a two-judge bench of the apex court comprising Justices Dipankar… Read More Supreme Court Orders TISS to Reinstate Dalit PhD Scholar Suspended Over ‘Anti-National Activities’
She faced endless opposition and threats to her life. This has become a reality for far too many journalists Maxine Peake A woman places flowers in front of a portrait of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, Moscow, 2009. Photograph: Pavel Golovkin/AP What drives someone to become a journalist? A good journalist, someone whose keyboard is a tool for exposing… Read More The incredible tale of Anna Politkovskaya has taught me one thing: I could never be that brave
Shital Kalathiya sharply criticised the Union government Union Jal Shakti Minister C R Paatil, who came to pay homage at Shailesh Kalathiya’s funeral. Kamal Saiyed Shital Kalathiya, wife of bank manager Shailesh who died in the terror attack in Pahalgam, burst out at Union Jal Shakti minister C R Paatil who came to pay homage… Read More ‘Problem not with Kashmir, but government’s security arrangements’: Wife of Surat bank manager who was killed in Pahalgam
The claim of the government that waqf is not a religious issue is a poor attempt to hide its vile communal agenda that seeks to devastate the Muslim community out of existence. Anand Teltumbde The Modi government’s central premise in targeting waqf institutions is that waqf is not a religious matter but merely one of… Read More Waqf Imbroglio: What the BJP Government Won’t Reveal
By Brian Fung and Clare Duffy, CNN Google has illegally built “monopoly power” with its web advertising business, a federal judge in Virginia has ruled, siding with the Justice Department in a landmark case against the tech giant that could reshape the basic economics of running a modern website. The ruling that Google violated antitrust law marks the US government’s… Read More Google is an online advertising monopoly, judge rules
Aviva Chomsky In the colonial view of the world — and, in its own strange fashion, Donald Trump’s view couldn’t be more colonial — White European colonizers were embattled beacons of civilization, rationality, and progress, confronting dangerous barbaric hordes beyond (and even, sometimes, within) their own frontiers. Colonial violence then was a necessary form of… Read More Trump Faces Palestine
At Microsoft’s 50th anniversary celebration on Friday, the mood shifted dramatically when a company employee disrupted the event to protest Microsoft’s involvement in Israel’s military operations in Gaza. The demonstration took place while Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI, was presenting updates on the company’s AI assistant, Copilot, at its headquarters. Videos circulating online… Read More Microsoft’s 50th anniversary event disrupted by employee protests over AI use in Israeli military operations: ‘Shame on you’
It was never about eliminating antisemitism. It was always about silencing Palestine By Patrick Lawrence / Consortium News Some people worth citing this week. They speak of different matters, but when we put all their apples and oranges into a basket we discover they belong together, their bright colors confronting us with a challenge: It is… Read More American Freefall
By Tamara Turki / Mondoweiss Hundreds of Columbia students gathered frantically on Tuesday, March 25 in a cathedral near campus for an emergency union meeting, debating how to respond against what they described as the university administration’s “concessions to fascism.” The uproar ignited on March 9, when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained Mahmoud Khalil,… Read More ‘It’s Not the Time To Be Afraid Anymore’ Columbia Students Fight Back Against Deportation Threats
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