Fighting Extremism
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Far-right extremists are using video games to recruit vulnerable youngsters
Extremists often interpret games to suit their positions. Or use them to find and build connections with others who share their views.
Helen Young, The Conversation
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What makes people get radicalised? Researchers are looking for the answer in young men’s brains
Brain scans of radicals prove that social exclusion contributes to an increased willingness to engage in violence for extremist values.
Clara Pretus, The Conversation & Nafees Hamid, The Conversation
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Google, YouTube to introduce new measures to tackle extremist content online
Google said its engineers have developed technology to prevent such content from being re-uploaded.
Scroll Staff
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How the East India Company tried to use paintings to lionise Robert Clive – and failed
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For young readers: A new collection of 25 timeless tales about nature by Ruskin Bond
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Readers’ comments: ‘Most Kerala Hindus are already lost’
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Odisha train collision toll rises to 261, around 900 injured
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Arrested, acquitted: Jigna Vora recounts her trauma after being accused in journalist J Dey’s murder
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In Germany, a bid to rehabilitate two kinds of extremists – Islamists and neo-Nazis
Both groups are similar – they both think they have historical missions, that they are superior, and both have hyper masculine ideas.
Bhavya Dore
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What drives young people to terror?
This is a time for introspection – Bangladesh’s future depends on it.
Matthew Islam
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Bangladesh’s accommodation of extremism spells danger for the region
With a series of attacks and no crackdown on extremism, Bangladesh retreats from its secular and democratic beginnings.
Sumit Ganguly
Video
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Watch: Ukrainian soldiers send a message to Russia with a parody of Oscar-winning song ‘Naatu Naatu’
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Eco India, Episode 226: We are producing much more than we can recycle. How can we change this?
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Watch: Devastating sandstorm sweeps across the Suez Canal in Egypt, causing death and closing ports
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Watch: Comedian mimics Bollywood celebrities explaining their absence from Cannes Film Festival
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Watch: Animal activist sit in cage to highlight the plight of confined birds
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It's time for Bangladesh to prove that it cares about free expression: Edit from Dhaka Tribune
The government is failing to protect basic rights.
Rubaiyat Kabir
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Fanatics are acting with impunity: Dhaka Tribune editorial on Bangladesh hackings
As another writer is murdered across the border, the prominent newspaper urges the government to stop the culprits.
Tribune Editorial
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How big a threat is Islamic State in Central Asia?
Islamic State has been spreading its influence beyond the Middle East – and Central Asia could be in the firing line.
John Heathershaw and David W. Montgomery, The Conversation
The Reel
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‘Scoop’ review: A flat view of a highly irregular case of police overreach
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‘Zara Hatke Zara Bachke’ review: Duck-and-dive comedy is a hit-and-miss affair
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‘School of Lies’ review: An overloaded saga of secrets and trauma
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‘Mumbaikar’ review: A dated, draining exercise
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Review: In ‘Fire in the Mountains’, the enormous burden of womanhood
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How ISIS has changed international law
The urgent need to respond to the terror group has redefined the use of 'self-defense' to include attacking a nonstate threat in another country.
Michael Scharf, The Conversation
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Lahore attack: Where do the real fault lines lie?
The place where you could not touch flowerbeds without a guilty conscience was riddled with human flesh and blood.
Akhtar Abbas
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In pictures: Allahabad University students protest to stop Yogi Adityanath from entering the campus
The BJP MP from Gorakhpur was to inaugurate a new building in Allahabad University on the invitation BJP's students wing but the president of the union called for protests.
Mayank Jain
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