Modi supports India Cultural Fascism – Sanskrit or German? A row over foreign languages in India′s schools | Asia | DW.DE | 17.11.2014

Prior to this, India’s Sanskrit Teachers Association (SSS) had begun legal action in Delhi’s High Court, saying the continued allowance of German in the school curriculum went against national education policy. The group also described the teaching of foreign languages in Indian schools as “a Western conspiracy.”

via Sanskrit or German? A row over foreign languages in India′s schools | Asia | DW.DE | 17.11.2014.

Price tag violence by settlers now includes casual murder! Palestinian driver found hanged inside Israeli bus | Maan News Agency

Witnesses told Ma’an that other drivers saw al-Ramouni’s bus parked in the bus terminal during his working hours. A driver checked inside the bus and found al-Ramouni’s body hanging from a steel bar in the middle of the bus.

His colleagues cut the body down and he was taken to Hadassah hospital. Medics at the bus station tried to resuscitate him but he was later pronounced dead.

“According to an initial investigation, it appears there is no suspicion of criminal activity, in other words a suicide,” Israeli police spokeswoman Luba Samri said in a statement, which said there were “no signs of violence on the body.”

But fellow bus driver Muatasem Fakeh said he had seen evidence to the contrary.

“We saw signs of violence on his body,” he told AFP.

“He was hanged over the steps at the back of the bus in a place where it would be impossible to hang yourself alone,” he added.

The victim’s brother, Osama al-Ramouni said the family did not accept the verdict of suicide, saying his body “had bruises on it,” suggesting he had been “tortured” before his death.

“My brother had children and was a happy man. It is impossible that he killed himself,” he told AFP.

“He had no problems that would make him do it,” he said, adding that a post-mortem would “reveal everything.”

“We reject the suicide theory. We all know it was settlers who killed him,” he said.

via Palestinian driver found hanged inside Israeli bus | Maan News Agency.

Dr Death will see you now | Priyanka Kaushal

Camps Of Death: A timeline of mishaps at medical camps in the state

2011 Nearly 300 operations were performed in Balod village. Four people lost their lives, while 52 lost their eyesight completely. Some paramedics were suspended. An inquiry by a team from AIIMS revealed nothing more sinister than some “unnamed problems with some unnamed medicines”

Against the target of 1,000, experts of the state government performed 1,098 operations in Kawardha. Twenty people lost their eyesight and two lost their lives. An inquiry was inconclusive

2012 Nearly 145 eye operations were performed in Bagbahara. Twelve people reported partial loss of eyesight

Around 200 operations were performed in Durg. Three patients lost their eyesight completely and 12 partially

722 girls in Bilaspur and Raipur complained that their uterus was missing after they were admitted to private clinics running a government sterilisation programme. The doctors’ defence was that the uteruses were cancer-infected. The registration of several doctors was cancelled, but the Indian Medical Association managed to reverse the move

2013 Seven women ended up with severely butchered stomachs during a sterilisation programme in Durg

via Dr Death will see you now | Priyanka Kaushal.

Listen: The Ebola song that isn’t ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’ – The Washington Post

The new recording of Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” already looks set to be a huge hit. Irish singer Bob Geldof, who organized the re-recording to raise funds to fight Ebola, told the BBC on Monday that pre-sales of the song had been “extraordinary” and had raised millions in just minutes.

via Listen: The Ebola song that isn’t ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’ – The Washington Post.