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Day July 5, 2014

Vedanta – Mount Lyell mine closure- hides profits in Zambia by transfer mispricing

Mine closure gets costly By SEAN FORD July 4, 2014, 10 p.m. THE long closure of the Mount Lyell mine has cost parent company Vedanta Resources at least $US30.9 million.   The Mount Lyell mine The total cost is likely to… Continue Reading →

BJP inflaming communal tensions for votes: Moradabad SSP

ABP News Bureau Saturday, 05 July 2014 02:31 PM New Delhi: In a comment that is bound to rake up a storm, Moradabad SSP Dharmendra Singh has alleged that BJP is inflaming communal tensions for votes.   Speaking to the media,… Continue Reading →

Academic Asks Indian Government,’ What Happened to the Files and why ?

ACADEMIC ASKS INDIAN GOVERNMENT, “WHAT HAPPENED TO THE FILES AND WHY” July 4, 2014 Prof. Purushottam Agrawal Professor Purushottam Agrawal, an eminent academic and a former Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi) has filed an application under the Right to… Continue Reading →

Censor Board Rejects Documentary On Muzaffarnagar Violence #WTFnews

Fri July 04, 2014 THE CITIZEN BUREAU NEW DELHI: Shubhradeep Chakravorty is a filmmaker with a conscience. He was earlier a journalist and took to documentary filmmaking after the Gujarat violence in 2002. His first film was on the Gujarat… Continue Reading →

Press Release – Misleading Propaganda on Sardar Sarovar Dam Height Increase by the Govt

Misleading Propaganda on Sardar Sarovar Dam Height Increase by the Government   Rehabilitation first, Dam next is the law: NCA must review illegal decision   July 5, 2014, New Delhi : Almost three weeks after the decision in the ‘Emergency Meeting’,… Continue Reading →

मोदी जी, फाइलें क्यों जलवाईँ?

  Posted by: Amalendu Upadhyaya 2014/07/04   नई दिल्ली। ऐतिहासिक महत्त्व की अहम फाइलें नष्ट करवाने का आदेश देकर नरेन्द्र मोदी सरकार विवाद में फंसती नजर आ रही है। गृह मंत्रालय से इन फाइलों को नष्ट करवाने के उसके आदेश के बारे… Continue Reading →

Press Release – Shock over SC Remark on Dowry harassment and 498-A #Vaw

AIDWA expresses its deep dismay and shock at the Supreme Court’s remarks in a recent case of dowry harassment that has been reported in the media. While the Court has every right to pass specific orders in a particular case under consideration, there is no reason why they should be extended to all cases of dowry harassment, and made mandatory with threats of contempt of court proceedings in case of non-compliance.  In any case, it is our experience that in several states, there already exist guidelines regarding the manner in which cases of 498A are to be handled. Senior police officers are required to record the reasons for either arresting or not arresting the accused persons after registration of the FIR which are open to the scrutiny of the court. Moreover, the arrest is usually done only after proper investigation in the reported matter.  We therefore believe that the SC order is not based on a proper understanding of the situation and displays a lack of appreciation of ground realities. We are equally disturbed by the comment of the Hon Court that Section 498A is used as a “weapon” by “disgruntled wives.” Such language is demeaning of women who are subjected to extreme forms of violence and does not befit the highest court in the country, from whom we expect protection of basic human rights. We fear it will lend a handle to those retrograde forces in the country who are as it is pushing for weakening this section and making it compoundable and non bailable. Whereas the Court has expressed concern about the “humiliation” of those arrested, we wish to point out that the thousands of women face humiliation and shame because of the physical and mental violence they face day in and day out. Incidentally, as all studies show, only a fraction of them ever reach the police station and even fewer get proper justice from the courts. We appeal to the Hon Judges to review its own order in the light of hard facts gleaned from police stations that indicate that it is actually a disuse and not misuse of the Dowry Prohibition Act and Section 498A of the IPC which is leading to an increase in crimes against women across the country. Sd/- Sd/- Malini Bhattacharya Jagmati Sangwan

India- now nuclear and environmental dissent is a crime

  Criminals? Protest against Kundakulam nuclear power station in Tamil Nadu, India. Photo: Joseph Lazer / Wikimedia Commons.   In modern India any form of dissent from the neoliberal corporate model of development is being criminalised, writes Kumar Sundaram. Opponents… Continue Reading →

Exploited Dreams, Dispatches from Indian Migrant Workers In Saudi Arabia

Thiruvananthapuram, July 4: Amnesty International today urged New Delhi to safeguard the rights of Indian workers in Saudi Arabia, blaming much of their misery on fraud by visa agents and brokers at the recruitment stage in India. Tighter laws in India… Continue Reading →

Power project inaugurated by PM Narendra Modi illegal, says Kashmir minister

IANS Jul 05, 2014 at 09:20am IST Srinagar: A minister in Jammu and Kashmir’s Omar Abdullah government said the hydropower project inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the state’s Baramulla district on Friday was illegal. Talking to IANS, Health… Continue Reading →

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