CounterCurrents: Victory For Students And Access To Knowledge In DU Copyright Case, Clinton Campaign In Crisis Over Plunging Support Among Younger Voters

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The Kashmir imbroglio is turning ever more dangerous for the whole South Asian region. Today militants attacked Uri army camp and killed two soldiers and injured several others. Kashmir valley remains shut for 72 consecutive days. Yesterday an 11 year old boy was killed in Srinagar raising death toll to 86. 

The Clinton campaign is worried. Latest polls show that Trump running neck to neck in the campaign. They are turning their focus on campuses since the polls show that more than a third of voters under the age of 30 plan to vote for third-party presidential candidates.

Delhi university students won a significant victory over publishing giants with the Delhi High Court standing with their right to photocopy study materials. 

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Clinton Campaign In Crisis Over Plunging Support Among Younger Voters
  by Zaida Green 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/18/clinton-campaign-in-crisis-over-plunging-support-among-younger-voters/

The campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is responding to poll numbers and other indications of declining support among younger voters by deploying its most prominent surrogates to college campuses. The moves come a day after two national surveys, one conducted by Quinnipiac University and the other by CBS News and the New York Times, found that more than a third of voters under the age of 30 plan to vote for third-party presidential candidates.




Turnbull As Fantasist: Selling Australia’s Security And Refugee Agenda
  by Dr Binoy Kampmark 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/18/turnbull-as-fantasist-selling-australias-security-and-refugee-agenda/

No greater hits in the Australian record of cruelty and mania come close than the approach of outsourcing refugee obligations and the conjectures of global terrorism.    The former stance assumes that refugees are disposable on arrival, repellent jumpers of a fictional human queue who can be shifted and trafficked to global outposts that have little bearing to the recipient country.




Victory For Students And Access To Knowledge In DU Copyright Case: Corporate Publishers Market Ends At The Gates Of The University
By Association of Students for Equitable Access to Knowledge (ASEAK)

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/18/victory-for-students-and-access-to-knowledge-in-du-copyright-case-corporate-publishers-market-ends-at-the-gates-of-the-university/

In a rare and incredible order on 16th September 2016, the Delhi High Court dismissed the copyright infringement case filed in August 2012 by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and Taylor and Francis Group against Rameshwari Photocopy Shop in Delhi School of Economics and Delhi University. Justice R.S. Endlaw in a 94 page long judgment interpreted the educational exception under section 52(1)(i) of the Copyright Act, 1957 as covering the act of photocopying prescribed reading material for university courses.





Do We Need Eco-Friendly media or Citizen Friendly Media?
by Ashutosh Ranga 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/18/do-we-need-eco-friendly-media-or-citizen-friendly-media/

The truth came out after a day that the poor drainage lead to such a scene in the city of Dhaka where a separate space for slaughtering is provided, until then from social media to print and electronic media fatwas were issued against the Muslims to refrain from such practices and celebrate an eco-friendly Eid.




Indian Prime Time News Saga
  by Imran Khan 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/18/indian-prime-time-news-saga/

Only selfless, honest, unbiased, ethical and humanistic journalism can help in the solution of regional and world conflicts and thus pave a way for peaceful and prosperous South Asia and World at large. Before being nationalistic, Indian media needs to be humanistic.  Any nationalism cannot exceed humanism.





Arresting Khurram Parvez
by Abdul Majid Zargar 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/18/arresting-khurram-parvez/

The worst fears of human rights advocates were realized on 15th September when noted human rights defender from Kashmir, Khurram Parvez, was prevented at Delhi Airport from boarding a flight to Geneva, where he was scheduled to attend the ongoing United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) session. The next day he was illegally detained in a Srinagar Police Station and finally arrested .Latest reports suggest that he has been shifted to Kuwara Jail. As usual, details of the relevant provisions of law, under which he has been booked, have not been furnished




The Curfewed Eid!
  by Mohammad Ashraf 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/18/the-curfewed-eid/

Putting the entire valley of Kashmir under curfew on the most important Muslim religious festival of Eid-ul-Adah is the first event of its kind in the entire recorded history of Kashmir!