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Day July 3, 2016

Javari- A village in Maharashtra stands up for its rights

Shruti Agarwal  Residents of Lavari have blocked the construction of a transmission line to demand compensation for livelihood loss      There is no provision in any law or rule to compensate communities for losses in livelihood (Credit: Vikas Choudhary/CSE) In… Continue Reading →

#DoctorsDay – `Need for an alternative tribunal for medical issues’ 

Mumbai: TIMES NEWS NETWORK Over 100 Doctors, Patients, Activists Attend Discussion Patients harried by unethical doctors, profitminded hospitals and poor government redressal mechanism should, along with like-minded doctors, set up an alternative tribunal to resolve healthcare-related matters. This consensus emerged… Continue Reading →

Attack on #FOE, To publish in Mumbai, get police certificate, specify political past #WTFnews

An official from the Press Declaration Section of the CMM’s office said the practice has been introduced to sift out dubious applications. The rule applies for new publications only and not existing ones. (Representaional Photo)From now on, printers and publishers… Continue Reading →

Discrimination: Soldier’s Funeral Reveals India’s Outsize, Outcaste Problem

  Himadri Ghosh, at indiaspend.com   Earlier this week, when upper-caste villagers in the western Uttar Pradesh district of Firozabad tried to prevent the funeral of a Dalit paramilitary soldier killed in a terrorist ambush, it was the latest manifestation of widespread discrimination… Continue Reading →

RSS affiliate, HJM to launch ‘save Hindu girl’ drive #WTFnews

 Summary: Adnan Quereshi, Sarv Daliya Muslim Sangharsh Samiti member, alleged this was yet another bid by RSS and BJP to polarise voters ahead of the assembly elections. Agra: Hindu Jagran Manch (HJM), an affiliate of RSS, is all set to… Continue Reading →

To Save Corporate Defaulters and Overexposed Banks, PMO Moots Plan to Dip into RBI Reserves

BY M.K. VENU The Centre is wrong in assuming that Rajan’s exit will make things easy. The institutional integrity of India’s central bank is at stake. The Reserve Bank of India. Photo: PTI. New Delhi: The prime minister’s office (PMO) is quietly… Continue Reading →

Fact Checking Narendra Modi’s Times Now Interview

By Amitabh Dubey The prime minister seems to have developed a flair for presenting policy steps built on his predecessors’ work as revolutionary. Arnab Goswami interviews Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to Times Now, his first TV interview since taking office,… Continue Reading →

SundayReading – Vignettes from the Emergency

On June 25, 1975, a State of Emergency was declared in India. Though the official order was issued by President Fakhruddhin Ali Ahmed under Article 352(1) of the Constitution for “internal disturbance”, it was Prime Minister Indira Gandhi who de facto… Continue Reading →

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