“History shows that wars are divided into two kinds, just and unjust.”
“Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. ”
India puts new restrictions on air pollution levels ahead of Copenhagen climate change conference
The Indian government has newly notified National Ambient Air Quality Standards-2009 through its union ministry of environment and forests. The government’s announcement has come just ahead of the UN climate change conference to be held at Copenhagen. It remains to be seen [...]
Tamil Nadu chief minister and DMK chief M. Karunanidhi on Tuesday assailed the war strategy adopted by the LTTE as one ‘lacking futuristic vision.’ He accused the Tigers of waging ‘fratricidal’ wars and killing Mathiah, Sri Sabaratnam (TELO), Padmanabha (EPRLF), Amirthalingam, Jotheeswaran (PLOTE), Yogeswaran (TULF), Tamil political scholar Neelan Tiruchelvam and other leaders of Tamil [...]
Chennai, Nov. 2009: Indian election commission recently made provision for transgenders, transsexuals and intersex to mark their identity as ‘O’ (Others) in the forms and voter lists given out by the commission. The third sex in the country, the population of which is considered to run into several lakhs, is not considered as a separate [...]
Indian union Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee is scheduled to visit Colombo on Saturday at a time when Sri Lanka’s former Army General Sarath Fonseka has accused Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa of seeking Indian help during October fearing a military coup by him.
Indian cabinet minister’s visit to the neighbouring island country also comes in the [...]
CHENNAI: In a gruesome honour killing, a 21-year-old woman was brutally murdered by her father and relatives in Tirupur district of western Tamil Nadu on Wednesday.
Sripriya, who belonged to the backward Kallar community, had fallen love with a Dalit youth, A Badhrakali, while doing an internship to get her B.Ed. The couple eloped and got [...]
Radovan Karadzic appeared at his U.N. war crimes trial on Tuesday for the first time since it began last week, claiming his “fundamental rights have been violated” by judges who started without him.
The former Bosnian Serb leader, accused of masterminding atrocities throughout the 1992-95 Bosnian war, had boycotted the first three days of the trial. [...]
The European Court of Human Rights yesterday ruled that crucifixes should be removed from Italian classrooms.
The case was brought to the European Court by Soile Lautsi, an Italian woman, after the courts in Italy had thrown out her case in a legal wrangle which began in 2001. Ms Lautsi originally launched the action eight years [...]
An Asian man has been cleared by a jury of racially abusing the white leader of the far-right British National party, Nick Griffin, following an incident in Burnley when he was protesting outside a police station. The jurors at Preston crown court deliberated for 45 minutes following a three-day trial, before finding Tauriq Khalid, 23, [...]
New Delhi, Nov.4 (ANI): Top Maoist leader Kobad Ghandy on Wednesday approached the Delhi High Court to challenge trial court’s order allowing the police to conduct a narco-analysis test on him.
On Oct.31, the trial court had permitted the Delhi police to conduct narco test on Kobad Ghandy, after the investigating agency contended that it had [...]
Saroj Giri , Monthly Review
“What made Spence dangerous to the bourgeoisie was not that he was a proletarian nor that he had ideas opposed to private property but that he was both.” — Peter Linebaugh.2
It is always easy to criticize and dismiss an argument in its weakest formulation. Attacking the policies of the security-centric Indian [...]