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Hundreds Die in Indian Police Custody, Says Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch said in its report that police regularly disregard arrest procedures and torture suspects in custody to death. The police often blame...

National Anthem in Cinema Halls: Can Compulsion Elicit Respect?

  Why Indian Supreme Court’s ruling ordering mandatory singing of national anthem in cinema halls militates against the spirit of the Constitution and undermines civil liberties  PROF...

Taj Mahal, Aleppo And Our Present and Future

If an Oxford had been built in New Delhi instead of Qutb Minar; a Harvard was built in Agra instead of Taj Mahal and a...

24 Years After the Bombay Riots, a Continuing Sense of Injustice

There is little to remind us today, 24 years later, of the months of upheaval that wracked the city in the aftermath of the Babri...

Turkey: Twin Blasts Near Istanbul Soccer Stadium Kill 29, Wounds 166

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. This year Istanbul has witnessed bombings attributed by authorities to the Islamic State group...

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