Embed from Getty Images Guest Post by – Sankara Narayanan The Supreme Court on Feb 02 2016 gave green signal to Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) to lay down natural gas pipelines cutting across seven districts of TN and dismissed… Continue Reading →
By Julie Zeilinger In 2001, a 17-year-old Peruvian woman known as “K.L.” was denied a medically indicated abortion, although the fetus had a notably lethal anomaly and the abortion would have been legal. Now, over a decade later, K.L. will finally receive… Continue Reading →
Science paper recommended ways of identifying hormone-mimicking chemicals in pesticides linked to foetal abnormalities, genital mutations, infertility and other diseases including cancer Environmental activists stand with respirator masks in a canola field during the campaign ‘No poison on our fields’… Continue Reading →
BY NANDINI SUNDAR In the forested, adivasi areas of Chhattisgarh, the Constitution of India and the orders of the Supreme Court hold no sway over the government An uncertain, fraught wait: Minpa villagers wait outside the Sukma thana for word of their… Continue Reading →
Gujarat’s chief minister, Anandiben Patel, had given 250 acres of land to the business partners of her daughter Anar Patel for just Rs 15 per square metre. Business associates of 45-year-old, Anar Jayesh Patel, got 250 acres of land near Gir… Continue Reading →
Neha Dabhade North India has reported highest number of instances of communal violence in the year 2015. Some news reports went as far as calling the cow belt of India a tinderbox of communal violence. Some characteristics were discerned… Continue Reading →
SAKUNTALA NARASIMHAN | We, the educated middle class, often ‘tolerate’ discrimination, without protesting about injustice. Do not tolerate lack of accountability, inefficiency, corruption, wrongdoing. That is not dissent or ‘anti-national behaviour’. It is the essence of good citizenship What did the… Continue Reading →
by COLIN TODHUNTER Have you ever read all of those pro-GMO scientists-cum-lobbyists professing their love of science? They are always talking about how science must prevail over ignorance and ideology then they play on the public’s ignorance by using ideology and… Continue Reading →
Chair used by Dalit woman pradhan ‘purified’ in Kanpur Dehat Faiz Rahman Siddiqui | TNN | Feb 5, 2016, 07.19 AM IST (Representative Image) Kanpur: The headmaster of a primary school in Kanpur Dehat district on Wednesday allegedly ‘purified’ with… Continue Reading →
“The tiger is not our threat, the Forest Department is.” “Forest Department Kee Jaagir Nahi; Sundarban Humara Hai” Kolkata -Asserting their rights over the Sundarbans forest, more than 200 people from the region assembled at the Public Hearing in… Continue Reading →
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