Over 700 concerned citizens have written an open letter to the National Commission of Women (NCW) to ensure strong action against Prajwal Revanna, HD Revanna and others involved in the horrific sexual violence case. The letter demanded Prime Minister Narendra Modi to apologize for seeking votes for a known serial sexual abuser like Mr. Prajwal Revanna. […]
The open letter was started by a group of Indian academics, many of them active in prestigious universities around the world, including Suvrat Raju, a scientist in the field of quantum mechanics and black holes, and in just a few days it was signed up by leading academics and intellectuals, including Gayatri Chakravorti Spivak, reaching […]
[অর্থনৈতিক ভাবে দুর্বল শ্রেণি (ইডব্লিউএস)-র জন্য কলেজ এবং সরকারি চাকরিতে ১০ শতাংশ সংরক্ষণের পক্ষেই রায় দিল সুপ্রিম কোর্ট। দরিদ্রদের জন্য সংরক্ষণ নিয়ে কেন্দ্রীয় সরকারের এই সিদ্ধান্ত যে বৈধ, তা মনে করেন এই মামলায় শীর্ষ আদালতের ৫ বিচারপতির মধ্যে ৩ জনই। সোমবার তাঁদের পর্যবেক্ষণ, অর্থনৈতিক মানদণ্ডের বিচারে এই সিদ্ধান্ত কোনও ভাবেই বৈষম্যমূলক নয়। এই মামলায় সুপ্রিম […]
Sanitation workers of ‘Chennai Metro Water Supply and Sewerage Board’ write an open letter to the residents of Chennai seeking citizens support before commencing an indefinite strike by them demanding permanent employment to avail minimum social security and other benefits. The workers said that the strike is not to inconvenience the citizens but to convey […]
The National Security advisor Ajit Doval, while addressing the passing out parade of IPS probationers at the National Police Academy in Hyderabad, recently proclaimed, “The new frontiers of war, what you call the fourth-generation warfare, is the civil society.” A group of former civil servants of the All India and Central Services on Sunday […]
The recent decision by St Aloysius Institutions, to name a park in one of their institution premises, in the outskirts of Mangalore city, after Jesuit priest and tribal rights activist Father Stan Swamy, has come in for opposition from right-wing groups like Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal. […]
The English Department of Delhi University has written an open letter to the University after its plan to conduct the end semester exam of its final year students from 1st July. The university’s proposed online Open Book Examination (OBE) format and the haste to execute it against all opposition reflect poorly on the approach to […]