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Kerala Waqf Board reconstitution: Pinarayi Vijayan accuses UDF govt of โ€˜surrendering to Sangh Parivar diktatsโ€™

Opposition Leader alleges that State govt has โ€˜betrayed' Keralaโ€™s secular society and minorities by deciding to reconstitute Waqf Board in accordance with Union governmentโ€™s Waqf (Amendment) Act

Why is a Trump commission attacking Nietzsche, Foucault and Sartre?

In May last year, US President Donald Trump established the Religious Liberty Commission. Last month, timed to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the United Statesโ€™ founding, it released a 224-page draft report titled, โ€œAmericansโ€™ First Freedomโ€. I gather the current government and its key support base, the religious right, consider American society too secularised โ€“ to such an extent that it amounts to systemic religious discrimination. Thatโ€™s what the commission is tasked with rectifying....