SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT The HinduParents and students during a protest rally against the sexual assault on a 6-year-old student in a private school in Marathahalli, in Bangalore. File photo: K. Murali Kumar While police ruled out ‘direct involvement’ of the skating… Continue Reading →
by Ajaz Ashraf Jul 29, 2014 11:31 IST West Uttar Pradesh is fast emerging as the new laboratory of Hindutva politics, where are being tested techniques of electoral mobilisation for their relative efficacy. These techniques entail undermining the traditional mechanism for… Continue Reading →
World Bank Turns Its Back on Rights Protections for the Poor Global civil society response gathers momentum (Hindi Press release pasted below and NAPM’s letter to Indian ED attached) (New York, London, New Delhi, July 29, 2014) – Civil… Continue Reading →
Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Mon, 07/28/2014 – 13:53 -26.7.2014 In her latest post, my colleague Rania Khalek makes reference to “a new racist chant mocking the more than two hundred children slaughtered by Israel’s merciless bombing campaign in Gaza: ‘Tomorrow there’s no… Continue Reading →
Another minor gang-raped in Delhi: Tuesday, 29 July 2014 – 11:04am IST | Agency: Zee News Bureau RNA Research & Archives In a shocking incident, a class 10th student was gang-raped by five people in Delhi’s Uttam Nagar area, as… Continue Reading →
VINAYASHREE JAGADEESH A woman activist was shocked by a vitriolic comment that followed after she expressed support for a scientific school of thought on a social networking site. A comment posted in Kannada, by a person identifying himself as V.R…. Continue Reading →
By Vijaysree Venkatraman July 27, 2014 Vijaysree Venkatraman is a science journalist based in Boston. She immigrated to America for graduate school. Dr. JoshiDrexel University Archives Why would an Indian woman go so far away for medical school? + Because… Continue Reading →
The National Alliance for People’s Movements (NAPM) has wondered as to why, ahead of heavy rains in the upstream of the Narmada dam, especially in Madhya Pradesh, the state government is gearing up with contingency plans to “save” people from… Continue Reading →
[email protected] Coimbatore The Coimbatore municipal corporation’s night shelter, where police and civic officials dump the destitutes and mentally ill found loitering in public places, is turning into a house of horrors for the inmates.In the absence of proper facilities and… Continue Reading →
By R Jagannathan Reuters The privacy of India’s citizens is under threat, thanks to a weak state. By weak state one means the absence of a strong basis in law for most of the acts allegedly carried out on behalf… Continue Reading →
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