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culture \ environment \ naked truth \ pollution \ superstition \ Yamuna
NGT horrified at Yamuna’s Ganesh pollution, helpless?
New Delhi, Sep 20: The Yamuna is choked with Ganesh idols, but the government will sit quiet while ‘devotees’ flout rules and poison their holy rivers. Incredible India indeed! Is the green tribunal crying crocodile tears? Troubled by the unedifying spectacle of hundreds of Ganesha idols littering the Yamuna, the National Green Tribunal today sought […]
Bihar \ Dateline Bihar \ naked truth
Jungle Raj: Stone pelting, arson as public battles police in Patna
The Jungle Raj has never left Bihar, and land mafia calls the shots. In a horrific three hours, adults and children were terrorized as a section of the ‘public’ attacked a demolition team and burnt down the bulldozers. Eyewitness report from Deedar and Yogesh Residents of Krishna Nagar in Digha-Rajiv Nagar area went berserk when […]
Islamist militants \ naked truth \ pakistan
New Jihadi Magazine for Women in Pakistan
There’s a new magazine out in Pakistan. It’s objective: to recruit women into a career of lifelong militancy. A new push by one of Pakistan’s most notorious militant groups to attract female fighters looks like an effort to keep up with Islamic State (IS) and other extremists who have used such appeals to bolster their […]
AIDS \ HIV \ naked truth
Holy Cow…bovines are great for tackling HIV
Cows have shown an “insane” and “mind-blowing” ability to tackle HIV which will help develop a vaccine, says a BBC report quoting US researchers. And this ain’t no Bullshit, it’s a genuine scientific report! In a first for immunisation, the animals rapidly produced special types of antibody that can neutralise HIV. It is thought cows […]
naked truth \ pakistan \ Pakistani Hindu \ South Asia
‘Protect Pakistani Hindus from Forced Conversions’
A leading Pakistani newspaper on Thursday (July 20)urged the government to provide protection to Hindus in the background of increasing cases of forcible conversion to Islam. The Dawn said in an editorial that the part of the Thar desert that lies within Pakistan had long been a bastion of communal harmony. “Given there is near […]
development \ Human trafficking \ naked truth \ southeast Asia
Thai Army General, trafficker , gets 75 years jail
Bangkok, Jul 20 : A Thai army general was one of dozens of people convicted in a major human trafficking trial that included 103 defendants accused of involvement in a modern-day slavery trade. Lt Gen Manas Kongpaen was convicted of several offenses Wednesday involving trafficking and taking bribes in the case involving migrants from Myanmar […]
children \ domestic violence \ naked truth \ POCSO
Wife uses POCSO to frame husband, false ‘child rape’ case
In the absence of a proper system of checks and balances the ‘Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act’ is being blatantly misused and used as a tool in settling scores. The police, it seems, are too happy to go for publicity, instead of investigating the facts of the matter. A Delhi court has […]
cemetery \ Delhi High Court \ Muslim \ naked truth
‘Will Graves swallow up space for the living?’ asks Court
New Delhi :The way graveyards are expanding in the national capital, there would be no place to live, the Delhi High Court observed (July 4). Asking the authorities to find out about the burial practices prevailing elsewhere in the world, a bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar said as […]
citizen journalism \ letters \ naked truth \ not in my name
India has always been a Hindu Rashtra
No sir, my outrage is not ‘selective’! No violence, no mob killings anywhere and at anytime is right. Do not try to change our narrative. Do not try and pooh pooh the will of lakhs and lakhs of Indian citizens. India has always been a Hindu Rashtra. This constitution of ours was drafted and sealed […]
‘Not in my name’ : a misplaced protest?
Every year, once a year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi condemns lynchings committed in the name of cow protection. Every year, his condemnation is stronger. Responding to the lynching of Mohammed Akhlaq in Dadri in 2015, the prime minister had offered platitudes for Hindu-Muslim harmony. In 2016, after seven Dalits were beaten up by cow vigilantes, […]
Hindutva \ intolerance \ naked truth \ not in my name
Thousands say : Not in My Name!
Thousands of people have turned out in protests across India against a wave of attacks on Muslims by mobs that accuse them of killing cows or eating beef (June 28). In some places, protesters read poems penned by Mahatma Gandhi and the posters spoke out that the mob lynchings are examples of “false nationalism.” Waving […]
Imposition of Hindi is another ‘BJP made distraction’: Yechuri
Chennai: CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury today (June 26) pointed out that the “distractions”, including the latest “imposition” of Hindi in states where the language was not widely spoken, were the “essence” of the three-year rule of the Narendra Modi-led BJP government at the Centre. Flaying the Centre for “not honouring” the promises made to […]
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