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BMC: Women corporators past the 50% mark, 121 women get elected in 2026
A total of 121 women got elected the Mumbai Mahanagarpalika in 2026, crossing the 50 per cent mark: with 227 corporators in all; BJP has sent 47 women to the civic body, Shiv Sena (UBT)34, SS (Shinde) 17, Congress 13, MIM 4, MNS 4 and NCP and Samajwadi Parti one each
Mumbai with Afghanistan
Activists and human rights groups come together in Mumbai, to demand freedom, democracy and justice for citizens of Afghanistan, who are at present suffering under the Taliban regime
Women who dared to raise their voices are vulnerable, yet they rise
Brave Afghan women continue to demand equal rights vis a vis education and employment, even as Taliban shows its old face again
Amnesty for Afghans: Can the world walk the talk?
It is one thing to express solidarity, but quite another to actually offer refuge; the least that departing world powers can do, is offer amnesty to Afghans desperate to flee a totalitarian regime
Livelihood a bigger issue than rations for migrant labourers: MRC
Experts appeal to governments to look into job security and better wages for migrant labourers along with food security
Journalists are targeted by all hardliner regimes, this time in Afghanistan
International media groups and organisations are asking governments to come together and make an “Emergency Plan for Afghan Journalism”
Afghanistan crisis: A tool to target Islam?
A Supreme Court AoR has drawn parallels between the Taliban and Turkish leader Bakhtiyar Khilji
Connecting the dots to reach the roots
The music of Raj Mohan, lyricist, singer and musician in Sarnami Bhojpuri is an ode to the history of Indians taken there by colonists to work as indentured labourers
10 months on, Siddique Kappan still in jail!
The journalist along with three others, was arrested under UAPA charges on October 5 last year on their way to Hathras
Afghanistan: The End of the Occupation
Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale write: A lot of nonsense about Afghanistan is being written in Britain and the United States. Most of this nonsense hides a number of important truths.
Controversial comments on Taliban draw ire
Samajwadi Party MP Shafiqur Rahman Barq booked for Sedition, UP CM calls for “exposing” others who ‘support’ Taliban
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