Day April 20, 2016
by subhash gatade In Conversation with Bezwada Wilson, National Convener of Safai Karmachari Andolan The 125 day Bhim Yatra which started from Dibrugarh and traveresed 30 states and 500 districts to reach Delhi is now over. As everybody knows it culminated… Continue Reading →
Police personal lathi-charge during garment workers protesting the central government’s decision on withdrawal of provident funds. (Kashif Masood/HindustanTimes) Under fire from political opponents and pressure from trade unions, the government withdrew on Tuesday its new rules on provident fund… Continue Reading →
Anil Agarwal We could have been drought-proof by 2010 had we only harvested rainwater. Sixteen years later, India‘s villages are paying the price (Anil Agarwal, founder editor and director of Down To Earth and the Centre for Science and Environment… Continue Reading →
— By FPJ Bureau | A New Delhi : Many ministries that have either issued or were in the process of issuing smart cards to the beneficiaries of their various schemes are stuck by a stern PMO directive to use only the Aadhaar… Continue Reading →
The SC took on Gujarat govt for submitting nore instead of an affidavit on the drought situation and directed it to file it stating details of rainfall data. The Centre on Tuesday faced tough questions on its handling of drought-like… Continue Reading →
By Prameya News7 Bhubaneswar: Maoist leader Dunna Keshav Rao alias Azad dropped his indefinite fast on Wednesday in the SCB Medical at Cuttack. Accepting the request of ADG (Jail) Arun Ray, Azad called off his fast which was going… Continue Reading →
Kashmiri Woman Pens Powerful Response To Chetan Bhagat‘s ‘Open Letter To Kashmiri Youth’ A letter, attributed to a ‘Arshie Qureshi’ who identifies herself as a Kashmiri woman, gives a fitting response to author turned armchair (read Twitter) political critic Chetan… Continue Reading →
http://www.hindustantimes.com/analysis/chhattisgarh-is-india-s-hall-of-shame/story-w3BBezInBEoB3QeufR32JN.html KumKum Dasgupta | Those who condemn State-sponsored violence must also condemn Maoist violence and demand more reportage and discussion on it (File photo) The social media’s response to any article on Chhattisgarh’s iron fist-style of governance in the Maoist-affected… Continue Reading →
Sagar Post News Network Bhubaneswar: Five undertrials (UTs) of Jharpada Special Jail have been on hunger strike for 21 days. Orissa POST was looking into court papers to understand the undertrials’ acquittals in Nayagarh Police Training School (PTS) attack case which exposed… Continue Reading →
#FreeHandwaraGirl Since 12th April, a minor girl has been in illegal police custody because she was molested and the local people protested against this. The child was forced to give a false testimony exonerating her molesters, the testimony was circulated… Continue Reading →