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No Smoking Guns in Mediated Realities
San Bernardino bore witness to the latest incident that involved gun violence in the US. I read the first news from The Hindu, ‘A heavily armed man and woman terrorized this city on Wednesday, killing 14 people and wounding at least 17 at a social services center before leading the police on a manhunt culminating […]
Adieu to an Ignited Mind
Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam was a versatile personality. He was the 11th President of India; an outstanding space scientist- having had an illustrious career at Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) giving his signature to both India’s civilian space and military missile development programs; an orator and a […]
Journalist Praful Bidwai Is No More
Prominent journalist and political commentator Praful Bidwai died on Sunday, June 21, in Amsterdam, where he was a fellow at the Transnational Institute. He was 65 years old. “Our dear friend Praful died unexpectedly in Amsterdam last night, 21 June. We are in shock,” read the note next to Bidwai’s bio in the international advocacy […]
Buddhist monks seek to ban schoolgirls from wearing headscarves in Burma
An influential group of Buddhist monks in Burma is proposing to ban Muslim schoolgirls from wearing headscarves, in the latest sign of growing religious tension in the country. The Organisation for the Protection of Race and Religion, a panel of monks known locally by the acronym Ma Ba Tha, said the headscarves were “not in line with school […]
China bans Ramadan
Muslims in China’s Xinjiang region working as civil servants, students and teachers were banned from fasting during the days of Ramadanon Wednesday. According to Agence France-Presse, The state-run Bozhou and TV university said on its website that it would enforce the ban on party members, teachers, and young people from taking part in Ramadan activities. […]
In China Uighurs Face Ban on Fasting, Mass Arrest
China has imprisoned around two dozen Uighur Muslim leaders , including “ wild imams” who allegedly preach illegally in the Muslim majority region of Xinjiang for “ illegal religious activities”. The 22 suspects were sentenced to prison terms ranging from five to 16 years at a mass public sentencing in Xinjiang on Monday, the state-controlled […]
UN peacekeepers accused of swapping goods for sex
UN peacekeepers commonly pay for sex with cash, dresses, jewellery, perfume, mobile phones and other items despite a ban on such relationships, a draft UN report has concluded. The draft study by the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS), obtained by Reuters news agency and since seen by Al Jazeera, says surveys of hundreds […]
AKP: A Slump, Minor Scar or Wake-up call?
Has the era of Erdogan, so hugely popular as to be called by his cynical critics as the next autocrat of Turkey, started to exhibit the signs of slow disintegration? Or else, as sympathisers of AK party (Justice and Development Party) say, it is just a jolt or wake up call to regain strength, which, […]
Yemani families take legal action against the US over drone strike
Families of two Yemani men, Salem, an anti-Al-Qaeda cleric, and Waleed, a Police officer, who were killed in the 2012 military operations have taken legal actions against the United States, alleging that they were hit by a US drone strike in August 2012 in the eastern village Khashamir. Although it is unclear if the case […]
Islamophobia on ‘Air’
Tahera Ahmed, a Muslim Chaplain at Chicago’s Northwestern University, has alleged that she was denied an unopened can of Diet Coke on the airplane that led to pledges to boycott the airline. On her facebook page, Tahera wrote that a flight attendant has discriminated against her after she asked for an unopened of soda for […]
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