2021

Mohammad Cheick Mkhaitir belongs to an untouchable community in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, a country of nearly five million population colonised by French once upon a time in Western Africa and surrounded by Atlantic Ocean, Western Sahara, Algeria, Mali and Senegal. Most of the Western Africa was under French control who tried to push ‘secular’ laws in these countries and yet after their decolonisation process old superstructure of these societies. Mauritania is 28th biggest (…)

CeBIT used to be an annual fair in the city of Hannover, Germany. It was last held in 2018 and then discontinued due to declining footfalls. CeBIT is German acronym for Centrum für Büroautomation, Informationstechnologie und Telekommunikation, which translates to “Centre for Office Automation, Information Technology and Telecommunications” in English. The name says it all about the fair. The annual fair was devoted to advances in these areas of electronics. It was held on the Hannover Fair (…)

Eichmann said, he only organized the trains; He was able to dictate A meticulous timetable, For the mass transfer of the Jews; They left as per schedule To their destinations: Auschwitz, Birkenau and Dachau; Of their fate he did not know, That they went to the concentration camps He could not tell; For his job was well, Only to organize the trains; Just the trains. Did he heed his voice of conscience; Or for that matter his brains, To ask where the Jews were going; What fate befell them? (…)

August 12, 2021
The Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s visit to the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif on Wednesday ( August 11, 2021) had an air of high drama — the C-in-C visiting the frontline — even as the Taliban’s relentless onslaught is bringing it close to the city, traditionally an anti-Taliban bastion. The historic city and its inhabitants are cut off from the rest of the country and awaiting the worst.
But Ghani’s real agenda was to form an anti-Taliban front comprising the (…)

by Sheel Bhadra Kumar*
The U.S. government’s ultimate time limit of total military withdrawal from Afghanistan is nearing [31st August 2021] the world and the people of Afghanistan are in total confusion and uncertainty about the future of Afghanistan which has witnessed a civil strife, terrorism, violence, numerous deaths, war and foreign interventions for many decades. It has long been a prize sought by empire-builders and superpowers. But the country’s forbidding landscape of deserts (…)

DELHI UNION OF JOURNALISTS (REGD.)
Flat No. 29, New Central Market, Connaught Circus, New Delhi – 110 001
Phone: 23413459, E-mail: duj.delhi[at]gmail.com
11 August, 2021
Press Release
Wearing black badges, with few ‘Stop Press Bashing’ badges too, the Delhi Union of Journalists, held a meeting at the Press Club on 7 August, 2021 in association with the club to discuss the topic : “From Defamation to Sedition to Pegasus”. The meeting is part of an ongoing programme by the National (…)

NATIONAL SOLIDARITY FORUM
Bhubaneswar / Mumbai
Convener: Dr Ram Puniyani Coordinator: Dhirendra Panda
PRESS STATEMENT
12 August 2021
Kandhamal Day to be observed on 25th August
Remembering victims of targeted violence against Christian Adivasis and Dalits, expressing solidarity with all victims of hate cand violence in India
NSF announces Kandhamal Human Rights awards for Activists and Groups
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The National Solidarity Forum has instituted two annual awards in (…)

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Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, August 7, 2021
People might recall the news from a year ago of how a huge explosive blast in Lebanon virtually demolished the city of Beirut. Had that been a nuclear explosion it may have also killed thousands of people while decimating the city at the same time. A massive accidental blast is one thing but a conscious decision to bomb and destroy on a gigantic scale is a criminal act. August 6, and August 9, 2021 mark the 76th anniversary of the US (…)

by Anil Nauriya The political crisis in India has assumed a serious character. Since 2014 there has been an all-round failure in governance with respect to Public Order and Rule of Law, Public Health, Public Welfare, Social Unity, Economy, External Affairs and Defence. Closely associated with this, there has been an erosion in the independence of most Constitutional institutions not excluding even the Election Commission and the Comptroller and Auditor General of India. As I (…)