A bus carrying Russian tourists crashed on Saturday in the Turkish resort of Marmaris, with 38 people receiving “minor injuries and bruises.” According to the passengers, the vehicle crashed into a tree and overturned after the driver fell asleep behind the wheel on a mountain road. “The injured were taken to local state and private clinics where they received treatment. Nobody was hospitalized,” the Russian Consulate in Turkey said in a statement. The police have launched an investigation into the reasons behind the accident.
Save Dissent to Save Democracy THE rising instances of physical violence and threats against political opponents and the inability to accept dissent must raise huge concerns amongst all of us who see democracy as perhaps the really stellar achievement since Independence. AAP’s attack on BJP headquarters and acts of arson committed under the very noses of their elite leadership; the attacks on Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia in Gujarat in the last two days; the recent manhandling of the caretaker of journalist Siddharth Varadarajan’s house by some garden variety thugs; and the violence and threats meted out regularly to their political opponents by political parties is surely deplorable and condemnable. This is a fatally flawed trend which will destroy the very foundations of our democratic institutions if not pushed back with all the strength and condemnation that the civil society can mobilise. Replaying the past To begin with, it must be clarified that we should ...
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