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What draws ‘lone wolves’ to the Islamic State?

The recent attack on a bike path in lower...

The Balfour centenary is also the centenary of the Zionist lobby

On the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, many...

Bangladesh tops South Asia in gender equality

Bangladesh ranked 72nd last year  File photo: Women entrepreneurs at...

MOST of the world’s refugees are from countries invaded by Britain

British politicians talking about forced migration often like to...

Not just about sex: throughout our bodies, thousands of genes act differently in men and women

Most of us are familiar with the genetic differences...

100 years after Balfour: the reality which still shames Israel

Two very different parts of Palestine highlight the injustice...

Grand Mufti of Syria: A Sunni and a Shia, a Salafi and a Sufi

Much of the war in the conflict-ridden Muslim nations...

Why #metoo is an impoverished form of feminist activism, unlikely to spark social change

Using the hashtag #metoo, thousands of women around the...

Bangladesh govt bans ‘jihad’ from madrasa texts

Chapters on jihad contributed to 'slow radicalization' of students,...

Petition to free jailed Iranian scientist

Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian born Swedish resident and...

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Man stabbed in Trilokpuri: While media focusses on the just concluded state polls, and television channels turn the other way, two media outlets, The Tribune and Observer Post report the stabbing of 19 year old Ayaan Saifi on April 30

UP: Women protest installation of prepaid smart electricity metres in several districts

At least ten districts of Uttar Pradesh have witnessed widespread women led protests against the hasty, untested installation of pre-paid smart metres that women claim have been programmed to run fast to “inflate” electricity bills

As lynchings “normalise” in ‘New India, a Bihar imam is ‘thrashed, pushed’ from train to die in Bareilly

While the incident reportedly took place on April 26, it took sectional media and social media coverage for the Bareilly police to finally admit that the beating to death of Maulana Tausif Raza Manzari was a targeted attack, not an accident on May 1; his wife provided details of a call to her from the dead cleric where he narrated he was under attack

Reproductive Autonomy Cannot Be Subordinated to Adoption: Supreme Court allows termination of 7-month pregnancy of minor

Holding that a woman’s choice is paramount under Article 21, the SC affirms that constitutional courts must prioritise dignity, mental health, and bodily autonomy over statutory limits under the MTP framework

Malegaon 2006 Blast Case: Bombay High Court rejects NIA’s ‘alternate narrative’, holds prosecution built on contradictions and inadmissible evidence

Holding that “diagonally opposite” narratives by investigative agencies cannot sustain a trial, the Court finds the NIA’s case rooted in retracted statements, hearsay material, and a legally impermissible reinvestigation—bringing the prosecution to a “dead end”