Day December 6, 2017
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY LYNE LUCIEN/THE DAILY BEAST ‘ABSOLUTELY SILENCING WOMEN’ Women had accounts banned from Facebook for responding to male trolls with sentences like ‘men are trash,’ in part because the company classifies white men as a protected group. TAYLOR… Continue Reading →
by- Meena Menon . The 1992–93 communal riots in Bombay scarred the cosmopolitan nature of the city, leading to greater ghettoisation, discrimination, and communal division. Yet the city bears stories of hope and sorrow, of alienation and hurt, all swallowed… Continue Reading →
By -Irfan Engineer On 6th December 1992, I was in judicial custody in Vansda (Gujarat) jail. We were struggling for the rights of adivasis on forest and forest produce which often led to friction with state and a couple of times had… Continue Reading →
AmitAnand.Choudhary New Delhi: Expressing concern over growing commercialisation of the legal profession with lawyers demanding “astronomical” fees from litigants which made it difficult for the poor to access justice, the Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to bring a law… Continue Reading →
Pankaj Shah & Shankar Raghuraman TNN Contrary to the perception of a landslide win for BJP in the UP civic elections, the number of seats in which the party lost its deposit (3,656) was significantly higher than the number… Continue Reading →
Zoya Hasan Majoritarian notions of democracy have acquired new acceptability in recent years and notions of majority rule have been pushed to achieve a restructuring of the Indian polity and a stronger authoritarian system politically. India remains a vibrant democracy… Continue Reading →
Jyoti Punwani Although the 1992–93 Mumbai riots, following the demolition of the Babri Masjid, were investigated by an inquiry commission headed by Justice B N Srikrishna, there have been hardly any convictions even as some victims doggedly fight on for… Continue Reading →
Santosh.Sonawane1 @timesgroup.com Nashik: The Nashik district and sessions court on Tuesday sentenced 11 people, including three women, to life imprisonment for killing two elderly women in Ghoti area of the district in October 2014. Significantly, the accused were also convicted under the… Continue Reading →
[email protected] Mumbai: Relying on reports of medical boards of KEM and JJ hospitals, the Bombay high court has allowed a 13-year-old raped girl and a 27-yearold woman from the city to undergo abortion in the 26th week of pregnancy. Since… Continue Reading →