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Day February 8, 2017

Mother of slain backpacker writes angry letter to Trump over terror list

(CNN)The mother of a slain British backpacker has written a scathing letter to US President Donald Trump after her daughter’s killing in Australia appeared on the White House’s list of 78 underreported terror attacks. “My daughter’s death will not be… Continue Reading →

Assest Growth of Recontesting MLAs of Uttarakhand 2017- average is 96%

Recontesting MLAs: Uttarakhand Election Watch (UKEW) and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) have analyzed the affidavits of 60 MLAs recontesting in the 2017 Uttarakhand Assembly Elections. Average Assets in 2012 Elections: The average assets of these 60 re-contesting MLAs from… Continue Reading →

India – Citizen’s Whistleblowers Forum Launched, Justice A.P Shah Chairman.

    (From left) Jagdeep S. Chhokar, Prashant Bhushan, Justice (retd.) A.P. Shah, Admiral L. Ramdas (retd.) and E.A.S. Sarma at a press meet in Delhi on Tuesday.— Photo: Sushil Kumar Verma : Disappointed by the government’s track record in… Continue Reading →

Marriage procession blocked by Upper caste members in Ujjain

INDORE ( 6 Feb ): Upper caste people blocked marriage procession of a youth hailing from scheduled caste in a village near Barnagar town of Ujjain district on Monday, prompting administration and police officials to step in to maintain law… Continue Reading →

Facebook shareholders want Mark Zuckerberg out as board chairman

  It would seem founders are not having it good either in India or globally. It is now the turn of Facebook’s Founder Mark Zuckerberg to face heat over his removal from the company’s board. Mark Zuckerberg According to media… Continue Reading →

One family fought the system and stopped Donald Trump’s first venture in India

Prasad Panvalkar opposed plans for India’s first Trump Tower because the local builder refused to offer his family housing in the new development. (Shashank Bengali / Los Angeles Times) Shashank Bengali When a Mumbai real estate developer acquired a crumbling,… Continue Reading →

Nagaland – Equality’s time has come

Naga women’s claim to economic equality has unsettled its male-dominated tribal bodies = by Monalisa Changkija | Kohima: The Kohima Municipal Council office which was set ablaze by Naga tribals during their violent protest, in Kohima on Friday. (PTI Photo) To… Continue Reading →

Gujarat – 150 children forced to travel to school in boats

VADODARA/ANAND: Hundreds of villages residing in two adjacent villages in the Khambhat taluka of Anand district are completely cut off as a dilapidated bridge constructed over a creek nearly three decades ago had collapsed last month. Although these villages are… Continue Reading →

Nirbhaya Fund Not Reaching Intended Beneficiaries, SC Told #Vaw

IANS A file image of people holding placards at a programme to observe the 4th anniversary of Nirbhaya gang-rape case as ‘Nirbhaya Chetna Divas’ at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI) New Delhi: The Supreme Court was told on… Continue Reading →

India – Eat this, says ‘untouchable’ entrepreneur

A businessman from the ‘untouchable’ Dalit caste in India likens his packaged food business to a social experiment to see if people have really shrugged off their prejudice. A FORMER rebel fighter and member of India’s “untouchable” caste is taking… Continue Reading →

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