Sexual Assaults against Children: When will this Brutality End?

Albeena Shakil, a former President of JNU Students’ Union, is a political activist. There are no words to describe the utter horror evoked by the sadistic rape of a 5 year old girl… Read More

Another rape, still more incompetence: Time to teach Delhi Police a Lesson?

A five year old girl is now in a critical condition in a Delhi hospital after being brutalized and raped by a neighbour. The Delhi police, which has dealt with the situation with… Read More

जेल की 65 फीसद आबादी एससी, एसटी और ओबीसी, उत्तर प्रदेश के जेलों में हैं सबसे अधिक मुसलमान

नेशनल क्राईम रिकार्ड ब्यूरो के आंकड़ें कहते हैं कि देश के कुल कैदियों में  28 फीसदी अल्पसंख्यक कैदी जेलों में बंद हैं. जबकि देश की आबादी में इनकी हिस्सेदारी मात्र 20 फीसद है. यदि… Read More

Maduro’s Slim Victory That Tastes of Defeat

By rejecting his opponent’s demand for a full vote recount, Venezuela’s president-elect may be making a costly mistake, says Lucia Newman, Al Jazeera’s Latin America editor. She is based in Buenos Aires. Just… Read More

Understanding the Venezuelan Result

Tamara Pearson, previously a member of the Australian Socialist Alliance and collaborator with Green Left Weekly, has been living in Merida, Venezuela, since 2007. She is active in the Bolivarian revolution, including as… Read More

Dispatch from Boston

Patriots’ Day in Boston is normally a celebration, but violence mars marathon held on historic day. Alan Fisher is an award-winning correspondent of Al Jazeera who has reported from across the world. One… Read More

Feel the blue in Marathwada!

Abhishek Srivastava is a Delhi-based journalist. Now a days, he is visiting the Marathwada region in Maharashtra. This dispatch is from Aurangabad. He can be contacted at guru.abhishek[at]gmail.com. All images are clicked by… Read More

World military spending falls, but China, Russia’s spending rises: SIPRI

World military expenditure totalled $1.75 trillion in 2012, a fall of 0.5 per cent in real terms since 2011, according to figures released today by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). The fall—the… Read More

Bushehr earthquake – what is Iranian TV for?

Omid Habibinia is an Iranian journalist and media researcher, and the co-founder of the International Association of Independent Iranian Journalists. The views expressed in this article are his own. According to the latest… Read More

Palestinian Authority Debt: as repressive as Israel

Abdel Bari Atwan is a noted Palestinian journalist and author. We are very shocked to learn that the Palestinian Authority (PA) in Ramallah has run up debts approaching $5bn and that $1bn is… Read More

और प्राण

प्रकाश के रे बरगद के संपादक हैं. उसके लम्बे संघर्ष की कहानी 1938 में लाहौर की एक चांदनी रात से शुरू होती है. एक फिल्म वितरण कंपनी में 150 के मासिक वेतन पर… Read More