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Karunanidhi’s defiance Updated: Updated: How the DMK stalwart confronted Emergency excesses Share Article How the DMK stalwart confronted Emergency excesses The political career of Muthuvel Karunanidhi (1924-2018) lasted for eight decades. He took over the reins of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) in 1969 and remained its leader until his death in 2018. Through the retelling of the life of the DMK stalwart in Karunanidhi: A Life , the Readers’ Editor of The Hindu also gives “an insi...

The exhibition details the decades of work it took for Black South Africans to cast off the dehumanizing white minority rule.

There’s a wall in “Mandela: Struggle for Freedom” that will seem especially familiar to Americans viewing this recently opened exhibition. Black-and-white public restroom signs spell out “Black Male Toilets” and “White Female Toilets.” Green signs bear the red cross, international symbol of neutrality and medical assistance, but one points right, toward the “European Hospital,” one left, ...

Singapore News - Differences over race and religion and deepening social inequality can fracture any society, and this is why multiracial, multi-religious Singapore has held up meritocracy as its core principle from the start. Delivering his Budget statement in Parliament last week, Deputy... Read more at www.tnp.sg

English schoolteacher Mary Tyler, who spent five years in Indian jails in the early 1970s on suspicion of being a Naxalite, recalled her experience in Anand Patwardhan-directed documentary Prisoners of Conscience (1978). “As for the condition in the jail, they were very overcrowded,” she said. “Sanitation was extremely primitive; medical care was extremely poor, especially in the smaller jails; and there were lots of infectious and contagious diseases. Medical treatment was almost nil. A...

Singapore News - Differences over race and religion and deepening social inequality can fracture any society, and this is why multiracial, multi-religious Singapore has held up meritocracy as its core principle from the start. Delivering his Budget statement in Parliament last week, Deputy... Read more at www.tnp.sg

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The Straits Times Parliament: Singapore has been strengthening laws against terrorism, says Desmond Tan The laws include expanded prohibitions on terrorism financing and stringent controls on the sale and possession of weapons.PHOTOS: INTERNAL SECURITY DEPARTMENT https://str.sg/JHGL They can read the article in full after signing up for a free account. Share link: Or share via: Sign up or log in to read this article in full Sign up All done! This article is now fully available for you Read now ...

15 February 2021, 12:03 UTC Responding to the conviction and sentence of human rights defender Jolovan Wham which will see him spend 22 days in jail, Rachel Chhoa-Howard,  Amnesty International’s Singapore Researcher said: “This latest conviction and sentence of Jolovan Wham is both deeply disappointing and unsurprising. “Over the years, Singapore authorities have repeatedly sought to make an example of his activism to deter Singaporeans who might dare criticize the government. “Wham h...

February 12 - 2021 KHARTOUM Sovereign Council member and deputy chairman of the anti-corruption committee Mohamed El Faki (SUNA) The Empowerment Elimination, Anti-Corruption, and Funds Recovery Committee said in a press release yesterday that it has gathered sufficient information about the activities of members of the former Sudanese regime under Omar Al Bashir. The Committee issued a directive yesterday to its state branches to take criminal procedures via the Public P...