To dispel any notion that madrasas breed terrorists, a seminary in Uttar Pradesh has introduced an anti-terrorism course in its curriculum.
Jamia Rizvia Manazar-e-Islam in Bareilly hopes its course 'Islam and Terrorism' will help students understand how terrorists misuse the Quran and the Islamic law to further their agenda.
The madrasa is run by Dargah Aala Hazrat, which made news last month for issuing a fatwa prohibiting funeral prayers for "any person associated with terrorism".
Maharashtra’s coastal district of Sawantwadi is set to see some change, come 2016. Almost 33 thousand acres in size, it has lately been gaining popularity as a tourist spot and for its wooden handicraft industry. But it is in the news these days as it’s set to host South Korean giant Posco, which has signed a MoU with Uttam Steel, promoted by the Miglani family, to set up a 3 million tonne per annum integrated steel plant.
POSCO stays undeterred by the unsuccessful attempt to set up a steel plant in Odisha. The 12 billion dollar project lays dormant as the Center and the company have come to an impasse.
A huge cache of counterfeit currency, being pumped into India from Pakistan, is going undetected. In an assessment of the past four years, the Intelligence Bureau (IB) has concluded that less than 1 per cent of fake Indian currency in circulation has been seized.
The sharp dip in seizures -- from 2 per cent in 2010 to less than 1 per cent -- has alarmed the Government, prompting it to come out with new security features for bank notes that will make counterfeiting difficult. Of the eight new security features that have been decided upon, one has already been implemented, sources told INNLIVE.
The font of the alpha numeric and the numbering panel has been raised. The need for new features was felt after the IB submitted a report to the Government after reviewing fake currency trends between 2010 and 2014.
How government priority is influenced by a class that aspires to physically separate itself from the greater public. There was a time in India, not too long ago, when travelling by a car meant one of two things— you were either in a private car or in a taxi. Now, app-based car services for instant hire have become extremely popular amongst certain sections in India's metro cities.
Companies like Uber and Ola have been doing extremely good business in India, seeing a rapid spike in their name recognition. The business has been so good that Uber claims Kolkata is its fastest growing market after the US and has better growth than London. After Kolkata, Mumbai is its second fastest growing market and other Indian cities aren’t far behind.
Move aside Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, you've got company. After the godman who made us endure MSG: Messenger of God, comes Radhe Maa who could be his sartorial soulmate. The self-styled god-woman has become the talk of town after she was named in a complaint filed under the Dowry Prohibition Act by a woman from Kandivali.
The complaint accused Radhe Maa of instigating the woman's in-laws and husband to harass her for dowry. On Saturday, cases were filed against seven people including the woman's husband, as per the orders of a magistrate court. None of them have been arrested yet.
Before they came to power, their lawless bullies roamed the streets and enforced self-declared edicts of morality on girls by not allowing them to hang out with boys and visit recreational facilities. When they came to power, they officially used the police to crack down on hotels to see what men and women were doing in private and how they could control it.
If the bullies of Sri Ram Sena in Mangalore chased and punched young girls because they visited pubs, in Maharashtra, the police rounded up several couples who were spending time in hotels near Mumbai, manhandled them, humiliated them and got away after imposing a fine for “public indecency” for whatever they did in private.
In India, the debate around sex work is often convoluted between that of, legalization, abolition and an in-between demand for decriminalization. Opinions oscillate between- sex cannot be work because it is an intimate human act and should not be sold, to equating it with any other form of labor and hence completely valid.
The debate is further made complex by the socio-political scenario as the Indian state maintains an ambiguous stand on sex-work; neither overtly approving it nor disapproving it and allowing it to exist in the underbelly of our society.
On 5th of August 2015, two passenger trains ran headlong into a very billowy Machak river, between Khirkiya and Bhirangi stations on Khandwa-Irasi sections, some 160 km from Bhopal, in Northern Madhya Pradesh. Kamayani express connecting Mumbai to Varanasi and Janta Express from Patna, bound for Mumbai hit the river only minutes after each other following a late-night derailment, killing 29 passengers, a number that is currently being debated.
