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Day September 14, 2014

Furore over premarital potency test

RAMYA KANNAN SRUTHISAGAR YAMUNAN Doctors suggest sexual education as part of premarital counselling instead It started as a hearing of a husband’s petition to quash an FIR that his wife had filed against him for domestic violence, in the Madurai… Continue Reading →

10 ridiculous statements and comments on woman #Vaw

By Zainab Mulla @ | September 13, 2014 7:59 PM | comment   Actually in India there is no shortage of political leaders, celebs, famous personalities and other public speakers who think it’s their birth right to poke and comment in a cowardly manner about woman and rape. It’s… Continue Reading →

Romila Thapar bursts the Hindutva Myths

ROMILA THAPAR BURSTS THE HINDUTVA MYTHS Written by  Amit Ranjan Thursday, 11 September 2014 12:32                                                  Romila… Continue Reading →

#Sundayreading – Prison letters from Faiz Ahmed Faiz to his wife

‘Someday I might end up as a poet’: Prison letters from Faiz Ahmed Faiz to his wife Notes written by the iconic subcontinental writer during his four years in jail for backing a Left-wing coup attempt. Salima Hashmi ·  The daughter… Continue Reading →

Press Release- Gujarat government ready to evict its adivasis originally resettled 15 years back #WTFnews

 Date: 14-09-2014   Gujarat government ready to evict its adivasis originally resettled 15 years back     Dabhoi/Vadodara: Hut built by  of Bijal s/o Shankar,70 yrs old adivasi, originally from village Shurpan of Tehsil Dediapada, district Bharuch which was 3… Continue Reading →

#Sundayreading – Kunan-Poshpora: Reconstructing truth

By Freny Manecksha During a visit to Kashmir in June 2013, former Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid made a startling remark on the infamous Kunan-Poshpora incident. Referring to accusations of the mass rape and torture of Kashmiri villagers by the… Continue Reading →

Conditions at Tata Steel plant blamed for hundreds of dengue cases in Odisha #WTFnews

Sat, Sep 13 2014 By Jatindra Dash BHUBANESWAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Stagnant water pools and unsanitary conditions in a plant being constructed by Tata Steel Ltd in Odisha led to a dengue fever outbreak which infected more than 280… Continue Reading →

Maharashtra electing fewer Muslim legislators

Saturday, 13 September 2014 – 6:40am IST | Agency: DNA Dhaval Kulkarni Indicating the declining political representation of Muslims in Maharashtra, the number of legislators from the Community has come down in successive elections to the state assembly. Maharashtra has the fourth… Continue Reading →

The Forest Rights Act needs to go: Tribals aren’t part of a tiger reserve

  by R Jagannathan 1 day ago 0 13  0 AA Only in India will governments legislate patently bad laws and then do everything in their power to subvert them so that they don’t affect development. Under UPA, bad law-making hit a new high,… Continue Reading →

Activists petition Modi – Don’t take away Gram Sabha’s powers under FRA

Author(s): Kumar Sambhav S… [1] Issue Date: 2014-9-12 ‘Central government’s attempts to do away with consent of Gram Sabhas for diverting forests unconstitutional’ Photo: Sayantan Bera A group of activists and non-profits have written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra… Continue Reading →

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