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Day February 6, 2016

Sexual exploitation case against Mumbai Income Tax Commissioner #Vaw

      TNN | Feb 5, 2016, JAIPUR: An Alwar-based woman has lodged a case of sexual exploitation against MumbaiIncome Tax commissioner R P Meena with the city police. The woman alleged Meena, a widower who hails from Bassi, befriended… Continue Reading →

Doctor turns away bleeding minor dalit rape victim #Vaw #WTFnews

    Anuja Jaiswal, TNN Mainpuri: A major controversy has erupted in Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav‘s family borough of Mainpuri after the chief medical surgeon (CMS) of the district hospital, Dr Nimmi Begum, refused to treat a 9-year… Continue Reading →

Made in India is costlier; joint development is mere purchase

 JOSY JOSEPH The Hindu The IAF entered into four different contracts with HAL for supply of the 140 aircraft, and later two contracts for 40 and 42 additional fighters. File photo: Akhilesh Kumar The report also indicts HAL for taking… Continue Reading →

Men, the Weak Link in the Push for Contraception and Sterilisation

BY AARTI DHAR Even if sterilisation as a permanent method of family-planning has been popular in India, the morbidity associated with its after-effects, when done badly, have also been widespread. Helping women plan their family size. Credit: DFID/Flickr CC 2.0 The… Continue Reading →

Why Narendra Modi govt needs to be transparent with its environmental policy

Nitin Sethi | New Delhi  Protecting the environment The NDA government came to power promising greater accountability and transparency in higher echelons of government. But, on issues of environmental rights and attendant public interests it has instead worked in stealth mode on… Continue Reading →

Sex-abuse survivor takes leave of absence from Vatican panel 

AP The Vatican has released no information about the progress in the tribunal’s work since it announced that the pope had agreed to create it. Pope Francis’ efforts to show that he’s tough on clerical sex abuse suffered a blow… Continue Reading →

#RohithVemula: Open Letter to the President of India by IIM-Calcutta Students

To, The President of India Subject: An urgent appeal to address discrimination and political interference in academic institutions in the wake of the death of RohithVemula. We, a group of students and faculty of the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta,… Continue Reading →

#RIP-Political Cartoonist Sudhir Tailang Dies At 55

Cartoonist Sudhir Tailang Dies At 55 All India | Indo-Asian News Service | Updated: February 06, 2016 17:00 IST Sudhit Tailang has worked with almost all well known national dailies. He recently launched a book of cartoons titled “No, Prime Minister”, a set of… Continue Reading →

Kashmir- Anger in Valley over survey on sect, militant & separatist links

Separatist groups have already warned of protests and described the first-of-its-kind move by police as “an attempt to divide Muslims of the state on sectarian lines”. – Representational image.   Written by Bashaarat Masood | Srinagar A new survey being conducted by… Continue Reading →

Victory for farmers: Why the govt was forced to backtrack on GM mustard

CATCH NEWS NIHAR GOKHALE  |6 February 2016 The U-turn Modi govt seems to have developed cold feet on introduction of GM mustard Now its says it won’t be introduced without consulting people The factors GM mustard was being opposed tooth… Continue Reading →

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