Bernie Sanders victory over Hillary Clinton in three states
Mar 27
Bernie Sanders has swept to victory over Hillary Clinton in all three states that voted for the Democratic presidential nominee yesterday. The biggest prize was Washington state but Mr Sanders also won in Alaska and Hawaii boosting his campaign. He was projected to have taken more than 70% of the vote in all three.
Mr Sanders thanked his supporters and said his campaign has the momentum, but he still faces a tough task to overhaul Mrs Clinton. She went into Saturday’s votes leading Mr Sanders by 1,223 delegates to 920.
President’s rule imposed in Uttarakhand
President’s rule has been imposed in Uttarakhand and state Assembly has been kept in suspended animation. The recommendation for central rule was made by the Union Cabinet at its emergency meeting last night, chaired by PM Narendra Modi who cut short his visit to Assam.
Earlier, Harish Rawat led Uttarakhand government has been asked to prove its majority by March 28, after nine rebel MLAs of the Congress sided with the Opposition BJP to destabilise the government.
The chief minister maintained that he was ready to prove his majority in the Assembly after the BJP asserted that it had the support of rebel Congress MLAs and should be invited to form government as the incumbent Congress dispensation had been reduced to a minority.
Assembly speaker Govind Singh Kunjwal,has also disqualified nine rebel Congress MLA’s from the House.Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said, there has been no greater subversion of Constitution than the recent political crisis in Uttarakhand. Terming it as textbook example of breakdown of governance, Mr. Jaitley said, everything that can go wrong with the constitutional functioning has happened in Uttarakhand.
In an interview to PTI, he said, it has never happened in India that an Appropriation Bill defeated in Assembly has been declared passed by the Speaker.
Mr. Jaitley maintained, Uttarakhand is an internal problem of Congress. Yesterday, Congress leader Ambika Soni had accused that the Centre is destabilizing the Congress government in Uttarakhand.
On her statement that Harish Rawat government is ready to prove majority on the floor, Mr. Jaitley claimed, using extended period to allure and bribe the MLAs are all examples of the constitutional breach.
Yesterday, a BJP delegation marched to Rashtrapati Bhawan and demanded imposition of President’s rule in the state. The move came in the backdrop of sting operation which purportedly showed Chief Minister Harish Rawat bargaining with rebel party MLAs to win their support ahead of the floor test on Monday.
Press Conference to announce the 63rd National Film Awards.
INVITATION
Dear Sir/Madam,
Chairpersons of the three Juries for the 63rd National Film Awards will be addressing a Press Conference to announce the 63rd National Film Awards.
You are cordially invited to cover the Press Conference.
The schedule is mentioned below:
| DATE | : | Monday, 28th March, 2016 |
| TIME | : | 11:30 AM |
| VENUE | : | National Media Centre, Raisina Road,New Delhi |
Yours sincerely,
(CHAITANYA PRASAD)
Global Snippets
Turkey police warn of Easter ISIS terror attacks
Turkish police have raised their alert level ahead of Easter celebrations, warning of possible Islamic State attacks, particularly on Jewish synagogues and Christian churches, the state-run Anadolu agency has reported. ISIS has been responsible for four major terrorist incidents in the past eight months.6 sentenced in Macedonia, 3 in Kosovo for trying to join Islamic extremists
A criminal court in the Macedonian capital Skopje has sentenced six people, including an imam, to prison for joining Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) and recruiting fighters for it, AP said. The imam, believed to be the mastermind of the group, was sentenced Friday to seven years. The six were arrested last August following raids in Skopje and several towns in the northwest. In Kosovo, a Pristina court has jailed three ethnic Albanian men who had tried to join IS extremists in Syria. Two of them were sentenced to two years and four months in jail and the third to two-and-a-half years. They were stopped by the Turkish authorities at Istanbul airport and handed back to Kosovo police last November.ISIS targeted in 13 airstrikes in Syria, Iraq – US
The US-led coalition staged 13 strikes against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) militants in Iraq and Syria on Thursday, Reuters reported. Eleven strikes near eight Iraqi cities hit seven IS tactical units and destroyed several assembly areas and vehicles, the Combined Joint Task Force said on Friday. The strikes were concentrated near Sultan Abdallah and Qayyarah. Two strikes near Syria’s Al Hawl and Mar’a hit one tactical unit and three fighting positions, according to the coalition.
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Aam Aadmi Party demands answers from BMC
Along with the residents of Shivaji Nagar, the Aam Aadmi Party did a rally on 27th March 2015, at Deonar Dumping Ground in order to rekindle the issue of Deonar Dumping Ground. There has been a raging fire since 22nd March and the media as well as the authorities have forgotten about it. How can a raging volcano spread over 326 acres not be an issue for this city? Mumbai citizens are being misled by senseless demand for shutting down the Deonar Dumping Ground. And then, what next? Mumbai generates about 6,000 tonnes of garbage a day, what should we do with it? It is critical to sort this calamitous issue on war-footing.
The BMC needs to answer many questions:
Ø Why have they not acted on these fires which started over 10 years ago?
Ø Why did BMC not act when the contractors Tatva & UPL did not do an iota of work towards recycling, disposing and clearing the dump yard, did not set up the promised technology and charged over 4000 crores for doing nothing?
Ø Why are they not reaching out to international caliber firms to quell the fires? These fires burning deep underground and not the task of mere fire brigades?
Ø Why does BMC not enforce garbage segregation by citizens?
Ø Why can’t they take action against the garbage pick-up vehicles’ lobby that refuses to pick up segregated garbage and blackmails citizens?
Ø Why have they not created waste disposal mechanisms and dumping grounds in each ward?
Ø Why have they not clearly fenced off the Deonar Dumping Ground?
We demand the state government take the following steps
· Punish each and every BMC official, politician and contractor who has had a hand in letting this problem assume gargantuan proportions.
· Give immediate orders to citizens to segregate garbage, such that non-compliance results in heavy fines & punishments. Provide encouragement to those citizens who voluntarily set up their own recycling mechanisms.
· Strict orders to garbage collection staff and contractors to ensure that they collect segregated garbage and drop it at separate recycling/disposal centers. They should be made accountable for failures.
· Setting up ward-wise recycling plants on a war footing.
· Invite proposals from world-class firms for stopping the fire and making Deonar Dumping Ground usable again.
· Create dumping grounds across the city to manage non-recyclable waste and ensure that no dumping ground is shut down and handed over to the land mafia.
Over 300 academicians, activists, artists and writers condemn the state violence and unlawful detention of faculty and student protesters of the University of HyderabadWe, academicians, activists, artists and writers, condemn the ongoing brutal attacks on and unlawful detention of peacefully protesting faculty and students at the University of Hyderabad by the University administration and the police. We also condemn the restriction of access to basic necessities such as water and food on campus.The students and faculty members of the University of Hyderabad were protesting the reinstatement of Dr. Appa Rao Podile as the Vice-Chancellor despite the ongoing judicial enquiry against him related to the circumstances leading to the death of the dalit student Rohith Vemula on January 17th, 2016. Students and faculty members of the university community are concerned that this may provide him the opportunity to tamper with evidence and to influence witnesses. Suicides by dalit students have been recurring in the University of Hyderabad and other campuses across the country. The issue spiraled into a nationwide students’ protest with the death of the dalit scholar Rohith Vemula. The protests have pushed into the foreground public discussion and debate on the persistence of caste-based discrimination in educational institutions, and surveillance and suppression of dissent and intellectual debate in university spaces.Since the morning of March 22 when Dr. Appa Rao returned to campus, the students and staff have been in a siege-like situation. The peacefully protesting staff and students were brutally lathi-charged by the police, and 27 people were taken into custody. The 27 detainees were untraceable for 48 hours, brutally tortured, and denied legal access. In short, all legal procedures of detention have been suspended. After the incident, the university has been locked down with no access to food, water, electricity, and Internet connectivity. Students were brutally assaulted when they opened community kitchens. Lawyers and members of human rights organization as well the ordinary citizens of the city were denied access to students. University of Hyderabad is one of India’s biggest public universities.We have followed, with deep concern, similar violent attacks and undemocratic crackdown on students on the campuses of Jawaharlal Nehru University, the Film and Television Institute of India, the University of Allahabad, Jadavpur University, Burdwan University, and others across the country. That the highest administrative authorities in the university have allowed the silencing of debate and dissent is unfortunate. We are disturbed by the pattern of growing nexus between student vigilante groups, youth wing of the ruling party, state and university authorities in colleges and university campuses across the country in order to mobilize the state machinery against vulnerable students. This has created a climate of fear and oppression in the country, and continually violates fundamental human and Constitutional rights of students.We stand in support of the protesting students, staff and faculty of the University of Hyderabad and demand the following:
- Immediate withdrawal of police from the campus.
- Immediate release of, and withdrawal of all cases against, all arrested students and faculty.
- Suspension of the Vice-Chancellor P. Appa Rao.
- Judicial enquiry into the role of the HRD Ministry, the HRD Minister and Mr. Bandaru Dattatreya in inciting violence against Dalits on campus.
- Independent enquiry into the incidents of violence on the campus including the role of the ABVP in vandalising the Vice-Chancellor’s office.
- Action against police personnel named by students in their complaints.
- Passage of the “Rohith Act” against caste discrimination in education.
Signatories
- Lawrence Cohen, Director, Institute for South Asia Studies, University of California, Berkeley
- Navtej K Purewal Deputy Director, South Asia Institute SOAS University of London
- Akhil Gupta, Director, Center for India and South Asia (CISA), UCLA
- Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor & Professor of Linguistics (Emeritus), MIT
- Michael Davis, Professor Emeritus, Department of Creative Writing, University of California Riverside
- Anuradha Mittal, Executive Director, The Oakland Institute
- Barbara Harriss-White, Oxford University
- Kavita Krishnan, Secretary AIPWA
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University
- G. Arunima, Professor and Chair, Centre for Women’s Studies, School of Social Sciences, JNU
- Sandeep Pandey, former Visiting Faculty, IIT, BHU, Varanasi
- Michael D. Yates, Professor Emeritus, University of Pittsburgh, United States
- Abha Sur, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Akeel Bilgrami, Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University
- Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Chair, Department of International Development Studies, Trent University, Canada
- Apoorvanand, University of Delhi
- Marjorie Griffin Cohen, Professor of Political Science and Chair of Women’s Studies Department, Simon Fraser University, Canada
- Gerald Epstein, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Surinder S. Jodhka, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Syracuse University
- Sangeeta Kamat, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Dr. Shailaja Paik, University of Cincinnati
- Kevin B. Anderson, Professor of Sociology, University of California Santa Barbara
- Tithi Bhattacharya, Professor of History, Purdue University
- Pranav Jani, The Ohio State University
- Vinay Gidwani, University of Minnesota
- Nivedita Menon, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Alpa Shah, London School of Economics
- Jayati Ghosh, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Srirupa Roy, University of Göttingen, Germany
- Rahul Varman, IIT Kanpur
- Ashwini Tambe, University of Maryland, College Park
- Jens Lerche, SOAS, University of London
- Gillian Hart, Professor, University of California, Berkeley
- Adrian Wilson, Social Anthropology, London School of Economics
- Ayesha Kidwai, Professor ,Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Meher Engineer
- Aishwary Kumar, School of Humanities & Sciences, Stanford University
- Ajantha Subramanian, Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies, Harvard University
- Jyoti Puri, Chair and Professor of Sociology, Simmons College
- Abdul JanMohamed, Professor, University of California, Berkeley
- Dr. Nathaniel Roberts, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Goettingen, Germany
- Paula Chakravartty, New York University
- Atul Sood, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Prof. Mohan Rao, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Yasmin Saikia, Professor of History, Arizona State University
- Nandini Chandra, Delhi University
- Elisabeth Weber, Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
- C. P. Chandrasekhar, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Prof. Rupa Viswanath, University of Goettingen, Germany
- Rama Baru, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Svati Shah, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Immanuel Ness, Professor, City University of New York
- Balmurli Natrajan, William Paterson University
- Veena Hariharan, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Rajat Datta, Professor, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Geraldine Forbes, Professor, State University of New York, Oswego
- Joya Misra, Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Richard Seymour, London School of Economics
- Susan Visvanathan, Professor of Sociology, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Dr. Pérez de Mendiola, Richard Armour Professor of Modern Languages, Chair, Dept. of Latin American, Caribbean and Spanish Literatures and Cultures & Humanities, Scripps College
- Peter Spiegler, Asst. Prof., Dept. of Economics, UMass, Amherst
- Swati Birla, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Atreyi Dasgupta, Baylor College of Medicine
- Kuver Sinha, Syracuse University
- Sirisha Naidu, Wright State University
- Siddhartha Mitra, Programmer, Rockefeller University
- Samantha Agarwal, PhD Candidate, Johns Hopkins University
- Anup Gampa, PhD Candidate, University of Virginia
- Anu Mandavilli, Friends of South Asia
- Deepankar Basu, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Nandini Dhar, Assistant Professor, Florida International University
- Michael Levien, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University
- Devika Dutt, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Smita Ramnarain, Assistant Professor of Economics, Siena College
- Taki Manolakos, Wright State University
- Valentina Dallona, Johns Hopkins University
- Iveta Jusova, Carleton College, USA
- Aditi Chandra, University of California, Merced
- Hee-Young Shin, Wright State University
- Anjali Arondekar, UC Santa Cruz
- Jinee Lokaneeta, Drew University
- Ajay Chandra, University of Warwick
- Xiao Yu, Peking University
- Bettina Apthekar, UC Santa Cruz
- Anirban Karak, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Natasha S K, Syracuse University
- Mitul Barua, Syracuse University
- Simmy Makhijani, San Francisco State University
- Sofia Gavtadze, Solidarity Network, Georgi
- Avishek Konar, Alumnus, The Ohio State University
- Robert Carley, Wright State University
- Dia Da Costa, Associate Professor, University of Alberta
- Ann Smock, University of California, Berkeley
- Liz Mount, Syracuse University
- Terese V Gagnon, Syracuse University
- Giorgi Kobakhidze, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
- Levin Ahmed, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Christos Mais, Universiteit Leiden
- Taveeshi Singh, Syracuse University
- Aniruddha Das, Columbia University
- Safar Safqat, St Mary’s College of Maryland
- Ramaa Vasudevan, Colorado State University
- Osman Keshawarz, doctoral student, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
- Narendra Subramaniam, McGill University
- Ammel Sharon, University of Pennsylvania
- Gventa Gventsadze
- Borisi Cirekidze
- Minakshi Menon, Max Planck Institute, Berlin
- Dmitri Khuskivadze
- Salo Kaladze
- Judith Rodenbeck, UC Riverside
- Ashok Prasad, Colorado State University
- Priyanka Srivastava, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Arani Roy, Brandeis University
- Dag Erik Berg, University of Gottingen, Germany
- Rahul Nair, Antioch College, USA
- Gajendran Ayyathurai, Goettingen University, Germany
- Balaji Narasimhan, William Paterson University, United States
- Ember Skye Kanelee, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Jungyeon Suh, Independent Researcher, United States
- Kannan Srinivasan
- Roli Verma, University of New Mexico
- Piya Chatterjee, Scripps College, US
- Lalit Batra, University of Minnesota
- Avanti Mukherjee, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Tyler Hansen, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Subho Basu, McGill University, Canada
- Laurie Nisonoff, Hampshire College, United States
- Satya Mohapatra, MIT
- Julia Corwin, University of Minnesota
- Parama Roy, UC Davis
- Krishna Melnattur, Washington University School of Medicine
- Rupal Oza, Hunter College, City University of New York
- Noeleen McIlvenna, Wright State University
- Daniel Thompson, Johns Hopkins University
- Jesse Knutson, University of Hawaii, Manoa
- Prashant Keshavmurthy, McGill University, Canada
- Anasuya Sengupta, Berkeley, USA
- Uditi Sen, Hampshire College
- Zarrina Juraqulova, Denison University, USA
- Kiran Asher, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Prakash Kashwan, University of Connecticut, Storrs
- Hamid Rezai, Pitzer College, USA
- Anindya Dey, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
- Lara Deeb, Scripps College, USA
- Richa Nagar, University of Minnesota
- Vatsal Naresh, Columbia University
- Niharika Yadav, Princeton University
- Bedatri Datta Choudhury, NYU
- Sanjiv Gupta, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Suvadip Sinha, University of Minnesota
- Ipsita Mandal, Perimeter Institute, Canada
- Poulomi Pal, Fulbright scholar
- Asmita Rangari, Activist, New Delhi
- Shipra Nigam, Activist, New Delhi
- Srinivas Lankala, Independent media scholar, Hyderabad
- Carolyn Elliott, University of Vermont
- Aviroop Sengupta, Columbia University
- Madhura Lohokare, Syracuse University
- Arijit Sen, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Suyapa Portillo Villeda, Pitzer College, USA
- Oishik Sircar, University of Melbourne
- Arjun Bagchi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Greg Anderson, Ohio State University
- Prarit Agarwal, Seoul National University, Korea
- Sayori Ghoshal, Columbia University
- Uponita Mukherjee, Columbia University
- Suyapa Portillo Villeda, Pitzer College
- Patricia Morton, University of California, Riverside
- Sofia Checa, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Arpan Roy, John Hopkins University
- Cynthia Correa, The University of Texas at Austin
- Parvathy Binoy, Syracuse University, Syracuse
- Jonathon Hurd, RN, Seattle
- Varuni Bhatia, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Erin McElroy, UCSC, Director, Anti-Eviction Mapping Project
- Geert Dhondt, John Jay College, The City University of New York
- Mithun Bhowmick, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Alladi Sitaram, Retired Professor, Indian Statistical Institute
- Dr Kasturi Ray, San Francisco State University
- Alicia Giron, National University of Mexico
- Probal Dasgupta, Indian Statistical Institute
- Larry Halpern, Wittenberg University
- Suchitra Mathur, Faculty, IIT Kanpur, India
- Aditi Saraf, Johns Hopkins University
- Ketaki Jaywant, University of Minnesota
- Nagesh Rao, Colgate University
- Irfan Ahmad, ACU Melbourne, Australia
- Suvrat Raju, TIFR
- Saikat Ghosh, IIT Kanpur
- Samyak Ghosh, Columbia University
- Catherine Liu, UC Irvine
- Francis Cody, University of Toronto
- Bhavani Raman, University of Toronto
- Erika Suderburg, University of California Riverside
- Saptarshi Mandal, Assistant Professor, Jindal Global Law School, Sonipat
- Anannya Bohidar, Graduate Student, South Asia Studies, UPenn
- Rahul Pandey, visiting faculty, IIM Lucknow
- Tania Bhattacharyya, Columbia University
- Aditi Sarkar, Architect, Las Cruces, New Mexico
- Shakti Sathish Nambiar, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne
- Maroona Murmu, Assistant Professor, Jadavpur University
- Gayatri Chatterjee, Symbiosis School of Liberal Art
- Sipra Mukherjee, Professor, West Bengal State University
- Raja Swamy, Asst. Prof., Dept. of Anthropology, University of Tennessee
- Anandavardhanan, Department of Mathematics, IIT Bombay
- Priyanka Bhattacharya, The Doon School, Dehradun
- Anuradha Roy, Jadavpur University
- Ramesh Sreekantan, Statistics and Mathematics Unit Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore.
- Srinath Jagannathan, Indian Institute of Management Indore
- Tanima Sharma, PhD student, University of Chicago
- Meena Alexander, City University of New York
- Sharmila Sreekumar, IIT Bombay
- Venkatesh K Subramanian, IIT Kanpur
- Food Sovereignty Alliance, India
- The Ghadar Alliance, US
- Nandita Narain, St.Stephen’s College, Delhi University
- Deepa Kurup, University of Oxford
- Ramesh Bairy, IIT Bombay
- Papori Bora, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Ritwik Balo
- Ranjani Mazumdar, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- PK Vijayan
- Dr. Papia Sengupta, CPS/SSS
- Krishna V V, CSSP/SSS
- A.K. Ramakrishnan, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Arunima S Mukherjee
- George Chkhaidze
- Elizabeth Abel
- Dr. Kochurani Abraham, Kerala
- Saumyajit Bhattacharya
- Pradip Datta, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Rohit Azad, Center for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Deepak K Mishra, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Tulay Atay–Avsar, Mustafa Kemal University, Turkey
- Dr. Vikas Bajpai, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Saradindu Bhaduri, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi and ISS, The Hague
- Dr Erica Wald, Goldsmiths, University of London
- Navaneetha Mokkil
- Manidipa Sen, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Ameet Parameswaran, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- K. B. Usha, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Gopinath Ravindran
- Avinash Kumar, CISLS, SSS, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Puja Rani, University of Delhi
- Ritoo Jerath, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Hannah Carlan, Department of Anthropology, UCLA
- Ganga Bhavani Manthini
- Sucharita Sen, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Dr. Mallarika Sinha Roy, Centre for Women’s Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Archana Prasad, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Dinesh Abrol, Institute for Studies in Industrial Development.
- Vikas Rawal, Professor, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Sanjaya Kumar Bohidar, Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University
- Simona Sawhney, IIT Delhi
- Dr. Debjani Sengupta, Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi
- Anirban Gupta-Nigam, University of California, Irvine
- Nandita Badami, University of California, Irvine
- Sneha Gaddam, PhD Candidate, University of Leicester
- Prabhu Mohapatra Department of History Univ of Delhi
- Farida Khan, Univ. of Wisconsin Parkside
- Pankaj Mehta, Dept. of Physics, Boston University
- Tista Bagchi, University of Delhi
- Ra Ravishankar, Bangalore
- Sambuddha Chaudhuri, University of Pennsylvania
- Ani Maitra, Colgate University
- Ethel Brooks, Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Women’s and Gender Studies and Sociology, Rutgers University
- Abha Dev Habib, Miranda House, University of Delhi
- Surajit Mazumdar, Center for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Sonajharia Minz, Professor, School of Computer & Systems Sciences, JNU
- Vinay Kumar Ambedkar
- Naveen Gaur, Associate Professor, Dyal Singh College, University of Delhi
- Margot Weiss, Wesleyan University
- Vivekananda Mukherjee, Professor, Dept. of Economics, Jadavpur University
- Dr Shakira Hussein, National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies, Asia Institute, University of Melbourne
- Udaya Kumar, Professor, CES, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, JNU
- Kriti Budhiraja, Graduate Student, University of Minnesota
- Radhika Balakrishnan, Rutgers University
- Seema Saha Poddar
- Poulomi Saha, Assistant Professor of English, UC Berkeley
- Swapnil Deshmukh, Mumbai University
- Dr. Lata Singh
- Tyler Feaver, Wright State University
- Pavithra Vasudevan, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
- Santosh Rohit Yerrabolu, Buffalo, NY
- Professor V V Krishna, Centre for Studies in Science Policy, SSS, JNU
- Amy E. Alterman, Graduate Student, University of California Los Angeles
- Ian Duncan, Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley
- Bir singh, Asstt. Professor, Dept. of Economics, University of Delhi
- Amit Singh, Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University
- Poonam Srivastava, University of Chicago, Postdoc Researcher
- Omnia El Shakry, University of California, Davis
- Jhuma Sen, O.P. Jindal Global University, India
- Corey Payne and Chase Alston, Co-Presidents of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Johns Hopkins University
- Sankaran Krishna, Professor, Dept. of Political Science, University of Hawaii at Manoa
- Mytheli Sreenivas, Professor, Ohio State University
- Preeti Shekar, Asian College of Journalism
- Susan Himmelweit, Emeritus Professor of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, Open University, Walton Hall, UK
- Kalyani Monteiro Jayasankar, Graduate Student, Princeton University
- Nicolau Dols, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
- Kartik Misra, Graduate Student, Dept. of Economics, UMass, Amherst
- Dolly Daftary, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan
- Sugata Ray, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
- Kunal Chattopadhyay, Professor of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University
- Soma Marik, Associate Professor of History, RKSM Vivekananda Vidyabhavan
- Pratiksha Baxi, Assoc. Prof., Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, JNU
- Arun Karthik B., Graduate Student, IIT-Kanpur
- Manisha Sethi, Jamia Millia Islamia
- Debaditya Bhattacharya, Asst. Prof., Nivedita College, University of Calcutta
- Ahmed Sohaib, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
- Michael Ash, Professor of Economics and Public Policy, UMass, Amherst
- Ramya M. Vijaya Assoc. Professor of Economics, Stockton University, New Jersey
- Sheila Walker, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Scripps College and Chair, Intercollegiate Department of Africana Studies, The Claremont Colleges
- Debarshi Das, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India
- Tarun Bhargava, Mtech Computer Science, IIT Kanpur
- Rajita Menon, PhD candidate, Boston University
- Kasturi Basu, People’s Film Collective, Kolkata
- Daniel Pasciuti, Assistant Research Scientist, Johns Hopkins University
- Henry Reichman, First Vice-President, American Association of University Professors
- Aaron Barlow, Associate Professor of English New York City College of Technology (CUNY)
- Rahul Thube, Ferguson College
- Nimisha Patel, Wright State University
- Mehrene Larudee, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Jayadev Athreya, Director, Washington Experimental Mathematics Lab, University of Washington
- Sunitha Gorty, alumni of HCU, MCA 93-96
- Devika Narayan, University of Minnesota
- Aravind Muthusamy, IIT Kanpur
- Shruti Mukherjee, SUNY, New York
- Marty Kich, Wright State University
- Geetha Nambissan, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Ajay Bhardwaj
- Ann Smock, University of California, Berkeley
- Amy E. Alterman, Graduate Student, University of California Los Angeles
- Baki Tezcan, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Davis
- M Ghazi Shahnawaz, Jamia Millia Islamia, India
- Jasbeer Musthafa, PhD Candidate, Western Sydney University, Australia
- Angana P. Chatterjee
- Eric Hoyt, PhD candidate, Economics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
- Alka Acharya, School of International Studies, JNU
- Urmimala Sarkar , Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- Margo Okazawa-Rey, Elihu Root Peace Fund Chair in Women’s Studies, Hamilton College
P.C of Punjabi film ‘ZORAWAR’ Guests: Yo Yo Honey Singh, Gurdas Maan, Vinnil Markan (Director)
INVITE: Att. the P.C of Punjabi film ‘ZORAWAR’ Guests: Yo Yo Honey Singh, Gurdas Maan, Vinnil Markan (Director), Rajiee M.Shinde, Rabindra Narayan (Producer) at 4 p.m on 28th March @I-SKATE, Gurgaon
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PRESS INVITATION
PTC Motion Pictures cordially invites
You to attend the cover of Press conference and
To share with you the uniqueness of their latest Hindi Film
ZORAWAR
To be addressed by:
Yo Yo Honey Singh
Gurdas Maan
Vinnil Markan (Director)Rajiee M.Shinde, Rabindra Narayan (Producers)
Time : 4 p.m
Date : 28th March (Monday)
Venue : I-SKATE, Ambience Mall, Gurgaon
Date : 28th March (Monday)
Venue : I-SKATE, Ambience Mall, Gurgaon
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UBA Pro Basketball League Season 2, Hyderabad Leg- Day 4
UBA Pro Basketball League Season 2, Hyderabad Leg- Day 4 Chennai Slam and Pune Peshwas qualify to the knockouts
Hyderabad, 26th March 2016: The last day of league matches from the United Basketball Alliance (UBA) Pro Basketball League 2016 is in progress at the Gachibowli Indoor Stadium in Hyderabad. Pune Peshwas have beaten Chennai Slam 77-74 in an exciting encounter from the South Division.
Present on the occasion were chief guests, Telugu actor Nikhil Siddhartha and former Senior Indian Men’s team captain Mohammed Rizwan. Mr Rizwan spoke about how the UBA has grown over the last season and requested all players to be positive and play a clean game.
“I love basketball and am so happy I am here,” said Nikhil Siddhartha. Complimenting the athletes, he added, “These guys are professionals and play at the national and international level. Their level of play is so high.”
Pune Peshwas bt Chennai Slam 77-74
The final day of the league stages in Season 2 began with last season’s finalists, Pune Peshwas and defending champions Chennai Slam taking on each other in a battle for first place in the southern division. Well aware that the top spot would ensure a direct entry into the semifinals, both teams came out with playoff-type desperation.
Centre Ravi Kumar was seen back in the starting lineup for the Peshwas alongside forward/ centre Gaurav Ohlan. Pune also started with a three-guard lineup with Ajinkya Mane, Siddhanth Shinde and Narender Grewal. Chennai stuck to their usual starting five, which has resulted in 4 wins out of the 6 games they have played. Slam centre Gopal Ram started the game well, taking advantage of mismatches down low to score in the paint. Gopal was complemented well by Niagerain baller Agu who was able to penetrate the Pune defense to either score or create for his teammates.
Chennai went up by 10 points at the end of the first quarter and kept their momentum going in the second quarter as well. Pune found it difficult to handle Agu’s speed and athleticism, while Gopal Ram earned his points on the charity stripe, shooting 12 of 14 on the freethrow line for the game. Forward Ramkumar came off the bench to knock down a couple of triples in the first half to further build Chennai’s lead. Slam ended the first half up 42 to 29 and Pune had a lot of work to do to come back in the contest.
In the second half, Pune coach Nandu Mehta scored a masterstroke by putting in veteran reserve guard Karna Mehta. His instant offense sparked the Pune comeback. Karna was unconscious from the field knocking down all his shots in the second half. Guards Siddhanth Shinde and Narender Grewal also stepped up their game in the third quarter knocking down shots from the inside and the outside. Pune ended the third quarter up by 6 points 57 to 51.
In the fourth, Chennai’s Gopal (24 points) fought valiantly in the paint, trying to regain the lead for his team. But 8 straight points by Karna Mehta (16 points), coupled with some late buckets by centre Ravi Kumar maintained Pune’s slim lead. The Peshwas closed out on a 77-74 victory, finishing the league stages on a high note. Karna Mehta deservedly earned the player of the match honours. The results of the second south division game today would determine the final standings.
Pune Peshwas (Siddhanth Shinde 19pts, Karna Mehta 16pts, Gaurav Ohlan 14pts) btChennai Slam (Gopal Ram 24pts, Chukwunanu Agu 16pts 6asts, Ashutosh Rai 11pts 12rbs) 77-74 (11-21, 18-21, 28-9, 20-23)
Late evening result from 25th March: Delhi Capitals bt Mumbai Challengers 104-94
Teams from two of India’s biggest cities, Mumbai Challengers and Delhi Capitals, squared off against each other today in their last league stage game. Delhi Capitals hold the best record in the tournament (5-1) and was looking to maintain their top position in the northern division. The Challengers, with a 4-2 record, were gunning for the top spot in their group to ensure a direct qualification to the semifinals.
With their starting centre Ramesh sitting out this game, Delhi began the game with forward Yudhvir Singh in the frontcourt along with Smithin Setu. The move immediately paid off for Delhi, as Yudhvir scored 6 quick points in the first quarter. Guard Vinay Kaushik continued his MVP calibre run driving aggressively to the basket. For the Challengers, point guard Prudhvi Reddy found his touch from long range in the first period and swingman Karan Pal Singh came off the bench to knock down consecutive triples. The first quarter ended with Delhi up 28 to 20.
Vinay Kaushik continued his momentum into the second quarter, fearlessly driving to the basket and earning his points at the freethrow line. Mumbai, however, continued plugging away into Delhi’s lead. Centre Gagandeep Singh used his size and dexterity to finish at the basket. Shooting guard Ranbir Singh knocked down two huge triples to further cut into Delhi’s lead in the second quarter. But a couple of timely triples from young guard Sunil Rathee off the bench helped maintain the Capitals’ lead with the halftime score at 50 to 40.
In the third quarter, athletic forward Nikhil Dahiya (20 points and 11 rebounds) caught fire for Mumbai knocking down turnaround jumpers and grabbing second chance points. Mumbai centre Gagandeep remained consistent producing points from the post. Unfortunately, however, Delhi brought out its X-factor, forward Satyajeet, from the bench, who unexpectedly put up 12 points in the third quarter alone. His off-the-ball movement ensured that he was always in the right place at the right time to find easy buckets. He even ended the third quarter with a spectacular two-handed dunk at the buzzer to give the Capitals a huge momentum boost going into the fourth.
Mumbai did make an attempted comeback in the fourth quarter with some huge triples from point guard Prudhvi Reddy (17 points). But it was too little too late, as Delhi kept finding its way to the basket, shooting above 50% from the field against a non-existent Mumbai defense down the stretch. Delhi ended up hitting the century mark and finished the league stages on the top of their group. They now get a direct entry into the semifinals, while Mumbai will have to cross a playoff hurdle first.
Delhi Capitals (Vinay Kaushik 22pts 10rbs, Yudhvir Singh 14pts 11rbs, Satyajeet 13pts, Sachin Sharma 12pts 5asts) bt Mumbai Challengers (Gagandeep Singh 24pts, Nikhil Dahiya 20pts 11rbs, Karan Pal Singh 20pts, Prudhvi Reddy 17pts 4asts) 104-94 (28-20, 22-20, 24-23, 30-31)
About the UBA Pro Basketball League
The UBA Pro Basketball League is structured on a league cum knockout basis. Season 2 is being held in two phases: 18 to 28 Feb in Pune (Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex) followed by 23 March to 3 April in Hyderabad (Gachibowli Stadium). There are eight teams in total divided into two divisions: Pune Peshwas, Delhi Capitals, Haryana Gold, Punjab Steelers (North division) and Chennai Slam, Mumbai Challengers, Bengaluru Beast and Hyderabad Sky (South division). Chennai Slam won the inaugural season last year with Pune Peshwas finishing second.
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Implementation of Right to Education Act (RTE)
“ National level interface on the 5 years grass root implementation of Right to Education Act (RTE)”
From: Shirin Shabana Khan <shabana@pvchr.asia> Sun, 27 Mar ’16 8:50a
To: Girish <girish@caritasindia.org>
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Greetings from PVCHR and Caritas India.
Development of any society, state or country depends upon the education policy adopted by it and the most important role is played by Primary education. This is very appreciable that in last few years’ major steps has been taken by you for better implementation of primary education and it will continue in future. In this regard I would like to make you aware that in past few years Caritas India is working with under privileged community and schedule caste of the state on issues like Right to Education and Child Rights. In, addition to this People vigilance committee on human rights (PVCHR) is working rigorously in Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand on the issues of Human Rights and Child Rights from last few years. The Organization is also providing training and support to different organization in 17 states of the country on the issue of Human Rights and Child Rights.
To add innovative ideas and how to improve the quality education of the commendable work done by the Government of Bihar, Caritas India has taken efforts on collecting primary data from the field based on Right to Education of primary education. An Affirmative report is an outcome, which will be shared with the policy makers of State government with a positive attitude to support the progress work taken by the government in the direction of Right to Education. Similarly, by implementing Right to Education Act 2009 strongly at grass root level it will also be an example for the other states.
In this regard Caritas India and peoples’ Vigilance Committee on Human Rights request you to send journalist and photographer for making the coverage of this program “National level interface on the 5 years grass root implementation of Right to Education Act (RTE)”. In the conference first time the Musahar girls in Bihar will perform the two plays 1) mera sapna 2) Bal vivah
Place: Constitution Club, Rafi Marg, New Delhi
Date: 29th March, 2016
Time: 10 am to 2 Pm
Looking forward for your kind participation
With regards
Lenin Raghuvanshi
Executive Director
Peoples’ Vigilance Committee on Human Rights
Girish Peter
Zonal Manager
Caritas India
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Shirin Shabana Khan
Program Director
People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR)
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Dear Friend in Christ,
Praise & Thanks to God, who used us and made it possible for the 29th year to walk the way of the cross. We prayed for you, who keep us in your prayers and in a very special way for those who do more than that – who support us and help keep ICAN going & growing. Below is a note of what we set out to do on Good Friday by the mass witnessing targeting thousands of non-Christians and Christians alike.
And since we are cost-cutting, here are Easter wishes for you and your loved ones too.
Your brother in Christ – Joe Dias
Thousands Join CSF Walk to Pray for Persecutors
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- CSF’s Christian Response to Attacks in India & Abroad
- Thousands Fast, Suffer & Pray at Catholic Forum’s Good Friday Walk
- Christians publicly forgive attackers, pray for the victims & the country
Prayer Points
* Nuns Raped
* 7000 Indian Victims
* Properties Targeted
* Christians Murdered
* Churches Desecrated
* Clergy & Believers Attacked
* Women & Children Not Spared
* Situations Abroad Resulting from Fundamentalism & Terrorism
– The CSF Indian Christian Persecution Report 2015
Thousands of Christians undertook an exhausting walk, in a public gesture of forgiving those responsible for the attacks on Christians, churches and the clergy, which has risen sharply over the past few months. ” The intention is to offer a Christian response which is in keeping with what Jesus did on the first Good Friday, when he said, ‘Father forgive them for they know not what they do’ about his persecutors. We want to tell India and the world that we forgive those who target us, our clergy, institution and properties; but are grieved and cry out that we need to be treated as equal citizens and the law should take its course “, said Joseph Dias, general secretary of the Catholic Secular Forum (CSF), the activist community NGO that organized the pilgrimage.
Starting out from Sacred Heart Church in Santacruz West, in suburban Mumbai, the pilgrims braved the scorching heat, most of them fasting and praying until the religious service called the Stations of the Cross concluded at around 4 pm in the evening. Along the way at various stops over the almost 8 Km route, activists dramatized incidents, believed to have happened when Jesus was killed over 2000 year ago. The serpentine procession passed through the lanes of Mumbai’s Khar, Santacruz, Vakola and Kalina with the crucifixion scenes being enacted (as in the Philippines) which proved to be tearful finale. Many of the pilgrims were with bare feet at the end of a fulfilling spiritual experience of 40 days of prayer, fasting and repentance.
The ‘Way of the Cross’ devotion or Walk with Jesus relating the suffering of Christ to modern-day living is in its 29th year and draws Christians from all over, with even children, women, priests and nuns joining in to partake in portrayal of the torture and killing of Jesus, enacted through a musical played out on the streets. The faithful mourned for the intention of the day – Christians denied freedom of faith and religious liberty.
Speaking on the theme, Joseph Dias, who started this tradition in India 28 years ago, which has not found a parallel in the country said, ” There seems to be a sinister plan to the attacks and the powers behind them could range from political and economic to the persecution being part of an international design to target Christians as is happening in the Gulf or African countries. In the country, the attacks are in the background of new governments both at the centre and states, who are responsible for law and order. Among the comity of nations, the image assiduously cultivated by the prime minister is taking a hit, as he is seen unwilling to reign in those attacking the community.
Indian Christians do not see these as isolated incidents, especially given the increase in frequency and the fact that they are backed by statements from prominent fundamentalists or even elected public representatives. We are alarmed and afraid at the attempt to demonize Christians and have the community’s basic human rights violated. We are seen as soft-targets as we do not retaliate, as commanded by our faith and this makes the government all the more duty-bound to ensure that our rights guaranteed are not trampled upon “.
According to The CSF press release, ” the government apathy towards Indian Christians is taking its toll, even as communal elements target the community. Jesus told us to pray for our persecutors and this is a public display of our hurt sentiments and a cry for justice. There can be no development without peace, justice or communal harmony “. Forms of discrimination faced by the community mentioned were those of police action, political alienation, bureaucratic victimization, anti-conversion laws, targeted violence, economic deprivation, social boycott, etc.
Some of The 15 Stations of the Cross enacted were – the arrest of Jesus, Jesus being sentenced by Pontius Pilate, the falls of Jesus, Jesus meeting the women of Jerusalem, his mother and disciples at the cross, Veronica wiping the face of Jesus… This, the activists feel is a dignified Christian way of protesting against the subtle and not so subtle attacks on the community.
Thousands of passer-byes witnessed the Calvary (place where Jesus was crucified) story, with biblical characters acting out the arrest and the last few hours before Jesus death. Similar enactments are known to happen in the Philippines and Latin America, with a couple of Christians actually being nailed to a cross, to experience in a small way Jesus’ suffering.
Joseph Dias added that ” initially it started since many non-Christians believed that Good Friday was a feast, rather than a day of mourning. He pointed out that “while fundamentalists of various hues and colours are persecuting Christians, the inaction and official neglect by the government is appalling. As a micro minority, who are not aggressive, politically influential and spread out; the governments of the day takes us for granted. This therefore also signals the heralding of Christians as vociferous and politically active citizens”.
The pilgrims stopped still for a special prayer at 3 pm, believed to be the time, when Jesus died or the moment of grace to pray for the intentions and the theme. They now look forward to a new hope, that the resurrection of Jesus from the dead on Easter Sunday brings, which was also enacted, since Christians believe that the crucifixion in not the end.
For More Info, Contact – Joseph Dias +91 9769555657 csfpost@gmail.com
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