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Day September 28, 2014

How the Naveen Jindal group may be conducting proxy mining in Odisha #WTFnews

The Jindal Group has been accused of illegally controlling an iron ore mine in Odisha. A Scroll investigation goes behind the corporate veil to find the real owner. Supriya Sharma | Photo Credit: gurunanakroadlines.com In August 2011, a team of officials… Continue Reading →

Modi 100 Days– Closer to Ecological and Social Suicide

  Vol – XLIX No. 39, September 27, 2014 | Ashish Kothari This is one prediction I did not want to come true. In April this year I wrote an article called “Could Modi Be a Development Disaster?” in which I said:… Continue Reading →

In Memory of Prof. Victor J. Stenger

  [Dr. Victor J. Stenger, a particle physicist and prolific author who wrote the 2007 New York Times bestseller God: The Failed Hypothesis, passed away on August 25 last in Hawaii at the age of 79. His forthcoming book is: God and… Continue Reading →

Global Day for Safe and Legal #Abortion – #Sept28 #Vaw #womenrights

For Manifesto text in Spanish, click here For Manifesto text in French, click here   Our bodies, our future! Governments must provide the right to safe and legal abortion. This right must be recognised now AND enshrined within the Post-2015 Development Agenda! On… Continue Reading →

#Sundayreading – ‘Red Carpet’ in Forests

Guest post by KAMAL NAYAN CHOUBEY View of the Rajapur Mining Project in Jharia from Bokahapadi village The Narendra Modi led National Democratic Front (NDA) government had promised, even before its inception, to increase investment in the country and lay down the… Continue Reading →

Chhattisgarh – Fresh round of arrests in Dantewada #WTFnews

Dear Friends I have been getting calls from villagers in the Jagargunda area saying the CRPF/Koya Commandos (SPOs who have been banned by SC but continue)/ and Cobra forces are arbitrarily arresting villagers under arms act, beating and looting. The… Continue Reading →

Remembering Shankar Guha Niyogi on his 25th death anniversary

Shankar Guha Niyogi was founder of Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha, a labor union run in the town of Dalli Rajhara Mines in Chhattisgarh. Shankar Guha Niyogi succeeded in sustaining the Mine Worker movement for 14 years from 1977 till his death… Continue Reading →

Drug price reins off before Modi’s US trip

G.S. MUDUR New Delhi, Sept. 23: A government agency has blocked its own pledge to impose price control on more medicines by withdrawing guidelines that it had used in July this year to cap prices of drugs used to treat diabetes… Continue Reading →

Revolutionary Leader – Jayalalithaa’s case verdict miscarriage of justice

A Travesty of Justice   The verdict in Puratchi Thalaivi – Revolutionary Leader – Jayalalitha’s case is a clear miscarriage of justice. The Court simply seems to have had no appreciation for good taste. More importantly, it is a violation… Continue Reading →

Mr Modi – Will putting fruit juice in Pepsi, Coco Cola, make poison healthy ?

Narendra Modi wants Coca Cola, Pepsi with fruit juice in India PTI | Tumkur, Karnataka | Updated: Sep 25 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked soft drink makers like Pepsi to try and mix aerated drinks with 5 pct fruit juice…. Continue Reading →

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