Day August 11, 2014
HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times Lucknow, August 10, 2014 About 50kms from Varanasi in Mirzapur, a group of young school-going Dalit girls were threatened with acid attack if they refused to join a sex racket. The girls in the age group of… Continue Reading →
Author(s): Jyotsna Singh [1] Selling price of HCV drugs far higher than production cost, all because of pro-industry patent regime On occasion of World Hepatitis Day on July 28, the World Health Organization (WHO) and its alliance partners have called… Continue Reading →
Love-buster helpline stirs sectarian fears Sangh campaign in western UP IMRAN AHMED SIDDIQUI Sarawa (Meerut), Aug. 10: To the villagers in Sarawa, fear has a phone number: 09410494559. It’s the “Hindu Helpline” that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh opened on Friday for… Continue Reading →
Brad Plumer on August 1, 2014, 1:30 p.m. ET @bradplumer [email protected] Nuclear power is slowly going out of style. Back in 1996, atomic energy supplied 17.6 percent of the world’s electricity. Today that’s down to just 10.8 percent — and it could drop… Continue Reading →
TNN | Aug 9, 2014, 02.27AM IST File Photo: Dalit women shout slogans during a protest against rising rape cases. (TOI Photo by Sanjeev Rastogi) CHANDIGARH: Crimes and atrocities against dalits in Haryana have gone up by about two-and-a-half times during 2004-2013,… Continue Reading →
Panaji, Aug 09, 2014, IANS; The Rs. 1,750 crore acquisition of one of Goa’s biggest mining companies, Dempo Mining Corporation in 2009 by Sesa Goa, a subsidiary of the London-headquartered Vedanta Resources, should be probed by the Central Bureau of… Continue Reading →
A THE peace convention in Delhi recently highlights some critical common issues between India and Pakistan Is what is happening in Pakistan and India because of the spread of fear, or because of connivance – this is a crucial question… Continue Reading →
Amnesty International LONDON – An immediate investigation is needed into mounting evidence that the Israel Defense Forces launched apparently deliberate attacks against hospitals and health professionals in Gaza, which have left six medics dead, said Amnesty International as it released disturbing… Continue Reading →
By Sunainaa Chadha Gautam Adani. Reuters 5 Just two weeks after Australia approved Adani’s controversial A$16.5 billion Carmichael coal project in Queensland that could yield up to 60 million tonnes of coal a year, the promoters of Adani Group are planning to sell… Continue Reading →
Written by Ujjwala Nayudu | Ahmedabad | August 11, 2014 8:40 am Some of those acquitted in the Akshardham case. (Source: File photo) SUMMARY Despite acquittal in Akshardham case, they say police question them, their kin. Charged with the Akshardham attack of… Continue Reading →