The other day, Hamid Karzai, the U.S.-supported Afghan president who was once sardonically nicknamed “the mayor of Kabul,” had a few curious things to say about American policy in the Muslim world.

Taksim Solidarity came up as a response to the attacks by the police and the security forces on peaceful demonstrators in more than 77 cities and towns in Turkey.

The White House claims that the Syrian army has used chemical weapons:

Presently I live in the Netherlands, but I have closely followed events in Turkey since I left the country in 2004.

Hundreds of North-East (NE) students, social activists, friends and relatives of late Reingamphi Awungshi (21) came out with candle lights and posters expressing their solidarity on June 6 in Jantar Mantar, New Delhi.

The protestors pitched to speed up the investigations and punish the police officials who refused to register the FIR at the first approach. They also demanded for early arrest of the culprits who killed Awungshi.

This report is the outcome of PUDR investigation undertken after the incident of 18 July 2012, at the Manesar unit of Maruti Suzuki India Limited (MSIL), in which an HR manager died and some other managers as well as workers were injured.

(The following article is a chapter from the book "Five years of saffron rule in Karnataka", edited by Amrose Pinto and Published by Manak, New Delhi.)

It didn’t take long. In the immediate aftermath of the dropping of the “victory weapon,” the atomic bomb, on two Japanese cities in August 1945, American fears and fantasies ran wild.

To my friends who live outside of Turkey: I am writing to let you know what is going on in Istanbul for the last five days.

Istanbul has become a battlefield covered by tear gas.