To Shri Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, South Block, Raisina Hill New Delhi 110 011 Subject: Letter opposing the Indian Medical Association’s (IMA) demand to rewrite / delete the Chapter 2 Social Science textbook on Social and Political… Continue Reading →
MUMBAI: A detailed study of 644 sexual assault cases in Mumbai between 2008 and 2015, conducted by women’s rights organization Majlis, shows that an overwhelming proportion of the victims are minors. Fifty-one per cent of the cases involved minors aged… Continue Reading →
HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | Updated: Aug 01, 2015 15:57 IST Manbir Kaur Manbir Kaur, 15, has become the first girl from the minority Sikh community to top the matriculation exam in Pakistan. The daughter of Giani Prem Singh, the… Continue Reading →
CHHATTISGARH LOK SWATANTRYA SANGATHAN (PEOPLE’S UNON FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES, CHHATTISGARH) ___________________________________________________________________________ 1st August 2015 PRESS RELEASE -IMMEDIATE AND EFFECTIVE ACTION MUST BE TAKEN AGAINST THE POLICEMEN RESPONSIBLE FOR RAPE AND MURDER OF MEENA KHALKHO The Chhattisgarh PUCL welcomes the… Continue Reading →
Towards 138.64 metres: Pillars have cropped up on Narmada dam By Our Representative Stepping up the campaign against the ongoing construction of the Narmada dam height from 121.92 metres to 138.64 metres, which is the full reservoir level (FRL), the… Continue Reading →
Aftermath of his hanging puts at risk presumptive legitimacy of institutions that mediate social division. Written by Pratap Bhanu Mehta In this Sept. 18, 1993 photo, Yakub Memon is taken back to a jail in a police vehicle after he was allowed to… Continue Reading →
By Andrew MacAskill, Steve Stecklow and Sanjeev Miglani Part 1: Patients pretending they are sick and doctors posing as faculty members are routine. The ramifications of India’s broken medical-education system are being felt beyond the country’s borders. MUZAFFARNAGAR, India – Last December, Dilshad Chaudhry… Continue Reading →
NTUI STATEMENT Why we condemn the hanging of Yakub Memon: New Delhi, 30 July 2015: A short while before 7 am this morning, the sole convict of the 1993 Mumbai blasts, Yakub Memon, was hanged until declared dead at the Nagpur Central… Continue Reading →
BY NANDINI SUNDAR It is the silences that attend media coverage of Yakub Memon’s impending execution and not the Shiv Sena’s aggressive calls for his hanging that hold a mirror to Indian democracy most clearly. Leading national dailies carry photos of mangled… Continue Reading →
MANISHA SETHI The verdict Supreme Court’s late night hearing on Yakub Memon’s punishment was a charade It was a way of projecting that we give a fair trial “even to a terrorist” The double standards While we celebrate Yakub’s… Continue Reading →
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