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All of the main political parties in Karachi shoulder considerable blame for their consistent and prolonged failure to prevent the loss of human life and of property.

Domestic worker women power made history today in Jaipur when they took to the streets of Jaipur and demanded their rights from the State and society. We are not “naukranis” they said. We are workers in free India and want the dignity of being a worker. We run two homes, yours and ours, can any of you in society do without our labour, they asked boldly. Ninety percent were Bengally with abotu ten percent from who had come from different parts of Rajasthan.

Anti-communalism crusader, Dawoodi Bohra reformer and liberal Islamic scholar Asghar Ali Engineer has crossed swords with many within the Muslim community - and outside it. Having analysed and opposed communalism from the 1960s onwards, Engineer spoke with Mohammed Wajihuddin on factors still driving divisiveness:

news reports from Chennai and Mangalore about petitions in courts against religious rituals or display of religion in Govt offices

The Sunday Guardian
Police conducted havan at the end of Hazare’s fast
MIR BASIT HUSSAIN New Delhi | 4th September [2011]
he Delhi police heaved a sigh of relief after Anna Hazare called of his mammoth fast at Ramlila Maidan. Officials at Kamla Market police station thanked the heavens, by organising a havan as the protest concluded without any major untoward incidents. The ceremony was conducted by a priest named Pandit Vikas Navni.
Kamala market police is still under fire because (…)