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Day April 17, 2015

781 Million People Can’t Read this Story

By Kanya D’AlmeidaReprint |       A student at the Hazi Ibrahim Government Primary School in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, raises her hand in response to her teacher’s questions. Credit: Shafiqul Alam Kiron/IPS UNITED NATIONS, Apr 10 2015 (IPS) – If you are reading this article,… Continue Reading →

Chattisgarh Sterilisation Deaths – Survivors being harassed by State Government #Vaw

Justice delayed, denied Author(s): Jyotsna Singh  Apr 30, 2015  Five months after 14 women died in sterilisation camps in Chhattisgarh, there is no sign of justice being delivered to those who lost their kin. Rather, they are being harassed for standing… Continue Reading →

Press Release – Dissatisfied Narmada Oustees Refuse to withdraw agitation in Maharashtra

  No Consensus built over Rehabilitation of Narmada Oustees in the        8 hours long dialogue with Div. Commissioner Dissatisfied Narmada Oustees Refused to withdraw agitation   April 15th | Nashik: Today, 400 adivasis along with activists from Sardar Sarovar affected area… Continue Reading →

RTI overrides privacy norms of MCI in patients records

NEW DELHI: The provisions of Medical Council of India to protect confidentiality in patients‘ records cannot override statutes of Right to Information Act, Central Information Commission has held. Information Commissioner Sridhar Acharyulu held that after RTI Act has come into being,… Continue Reading →

World Bank breaks its own rules as millions lose land and livelihoods

Review of World Bank documents reveals electricity, water and transport projects contravened safeguards designed to protect rights of indigenous people  Residents of the Badia East slum in Lagos, who were evicted last year when the area was razed to make… Continue Reading →

Dear Prime Minister Modi, Please reply the 6 Questions

SIX QUESTIONS: WHAT IS THE COST OF THE RAFALE DEAL MR PRIME MINISTER? NEW DELHI: If Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s dramatic decision to clear the purchase of 36 Rafale fighter jets in ‘ready to fly’ condition has come without any details, very… Continue Reading →

Canadian Court issues summons for PM Modi; Attorney General blocks it

Canadian Court issues summons for Prime Minister Modi; Attorney General blocks it    AJC welcomes recognition of prima facie evidence to prosecute Modi FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The American Justice Center, an organization established to bring to justice perpetrators of mass… Continue Reading →

The good samaritans of Hashimpura

The families of the Muslim youth from Hashimpura who were shot dead 28 years ago had some committed supporters in their long struggle for justice, reports Jyoti Punwani. Photographs: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Special to Rediff.com. Image: Hazara, centre, whose son and nephew… Continue Reading →

Do people in India have a Right to Radio Waves ?

On wrong wavelength Author(s): Anupam Chakravartty Apr 30, 2015 | From the print edition Twenty years after the Supreme Court asserted that people have a right over radio waves, community radio continues to struggle. Instead of supporting the stations, the Centre now… Continue Reading →

Tata Steel stares at biggest industrial strike in 30 years in UK

Friday, 17 April 2015 – 11:40am IST | Place: London | Agency: Reuters “Our members are determined to stand up for their pension and therefore we have no option but to proceed to an industrial action ballot in May,” said… Continue Reading →

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