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Traffic snarls in Delhi as taxi drivers protest ban

Protesting supreme court’s order to ban diesel taxis in Delhi, cab drivers on Monday blocked several roads in the national capital. Major traffic jam was reported near Rajokri area and Dhaula

Activists demand strong anti-corruption institutions

  Civil society organisations organised Ghotala Rath Yatra in Delhi to protest against Modi government’s alleged attempt to deliberately weaken anti-corruption institutions

It’s traumatic, says African student

  “We have requested more security from the government of India and the Uttar Pradesh government,” said Abdou Ibrahim, senior adviser, Association of African Students

Attacks not sufficiently condemned: African envoys

  The attacks on African students were xenophobic and racial in nature, said African envoys who said that the incidents were not sufficiently condemned by the Indian authorities.

Tamil Nadu farmers: Broken, Battered, Bleak

The footpath near Jantar Mantar, which is considered Delhi’s (and the nation’s) own protest plaza, has been seeing a demonstration that is bizarre by the usual standards of the place. F

Tamil Nadu: Cracked earth, parched throat

Tamil Nadu, one of India’s largest states and home to about 67 million people, is facing a severe drought, forcing many farmers to commit suicide as their crop withers.

When BHU’s calm was shattered

The campus of the prestigious Banaras Hindu University (BHU), which completed its 100 years less than a year ago, has turned into a curfew town following an alleged sexual harassment of an undergra

Maharashtra bandh: Maratha Kranti Morcha calls off agitation

Demanding reservation in jobs and education, the Maratha community carried out agitation across Maharashtra on Wednesday. The Maratha Kranti Morcha had called for a Maharashtra bandh post t

Indispensable reading for our times

Inquilab: A Decade of Protest Foreword by Swara Bhasker HarperCollins India, lviii+206 pages, Rs 399 On April 5, 2011, some newspapers carried

Visionary Talk: Amitabh Gupta, Pune Police Commissioner with Kailashnath Adhikari, MD, Governance Now


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