Your writings have grappled with ruthless state violence which is often at the behest of corporate interests. Much of the corporate-owned media in India shies away from covering the civil war-like conditions in many parts of the country. The establishment tends to brand anyone who attempts to present the other side’s points of view as having seditious intent. Where is …

  His gruesome strategy to snuff out the lives of the youth likely to lead the Labour Party, known for it’s relatively more liberal and cosmopolitan outlook, shows the height of a new morbid fanaticism The national memorial service for the dead and return of the survivors and bereaved families to Utøya Island, the site of the barbaric blitz by …

Signs of cracks within the alliance that ousted Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, the fugitive Libyan strongman, are emerging while the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) countries, which have invested billions of dollars in their effort to help the rebels capture Libya and end four decades of dictatorship, are in a quandary. It appears that after all that NATO investment Libya may …

The number of Britons converting to Islam has doubled in 10 years. Why? Jerome Taylor and Sarah Morrison investigate     The number of Britons choosing to become Muslims has nearly doubled in the past decade, according to one of the most comprehensive attempts to estimate how many people have embraced Islam.   Following the global spread of violent Islamism, …

Every person travelling in the driving seat or the front passenger seat of every Motor Vehicle specified in the Gazette attached hereto shall be required to wear a seat belt with effect from 1st October 2011. The provisions of these regulations shall not apply to– (a) Persons whose height does not exceed of 1.5 meters; (b) Persons who are exempted from …

Britain, the US and France are pushing for harsher sanctions against Syria’s President al-Assad, who is believed to have ordered the torture and death of protesters. But on the streets there seems to be no real evidence of anti-government sentiment. Even the poorest areas of the Syrian city of Homs – which, as a gathering place for people heading into the …