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Day May 4, 2018

India -Forest fires increased by 125 per cent in last two years

Kiran Pandey   Madhya Pradesh recorded most forest fires than any other state in 2017 Most of the forest fires between 2003 and 2016 have occurred in open forests. Credit: Wikimedia India, which saw a 46 per cent increase in the… Continue Reading →

India- #Aadhaar a Self Certified ID

Anand Venkatanarayanan Aadhaar — A Self Certified ID Public availability of cracked Enrollment software makes Aadhaar information equivalent to a Self Certified ID The biggest question that the Asia Times news story raises about the compromised enrollment software is —… Continue Reading →

CIA document- RSS attempted to assassinate General Cariappa

See the CIA document on the RSS plot against General Cariappa UTTAM SENGUPTA A CIA declassified document states that attempt had been made to assassinate General Cariappa, Commander-in-Chief of Indian Army, in 1950. Will PM Modi speak on the RSS… Continue Reading →

The Nowhere People: Rohingyas in India

By Neeta Lal   A devastating fire in a shanty at Kalindi Kunj, a New Delhi suburb, that gutted the homes of 226 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, including 100 women and 50 children, has trained a spotlight on India’s ad hoc… Continue Reading →

India – Two teenagers gang raped one commits suicide #Vaw

NEW DELHI: Two teenagers have been gang raped in separate incidents in India in the past four days, highlighting a rape epidemic that shows no sign of abating despite tougher penalties introduced last month. Police said they had not made any arrests in either… Continue Reading →

West Bengal- Goats and poultry help tribal women turnaround impoverished lives

Poverty-stricken women in the semi-arid regions of West Bengal and Jharkhand, used to subsisting on meager incomes, have defied huge odds and transformed their lives by rearing goats and poultry Gautam Sarkar,Birbhum, West Bengal Tribal women in Birbhum have found… Continue Reading →

Eminent Filmmakers explain why they boycotted the National Film Awards Ceremony

Sreelakshmi | Courtesy: Indian Cultural Forum The 65th National Awards ceremony held on 3 May 2018 at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi raised some eyebrows when 66 artists and filmmakers walked out of the hall, boycotting the award function.  Information and Broadcasting Minister,… Continue Reading →

Mumbai – 50,000 farmers protest bullet train, expressway

Mohana Mahesh Rural dissent: Farmers at a public meeting at Dahanu beach after a long march from Sagar Naka to Para Naka on Thursday. Rural dissent: Farmers at a public meeting at Dahanu beach after a long march from Sagar… Continue Reading →

A pattern of impunity: on the SC/ST Act

G. Sampath The problem with the SC/ST Act is the failure of the criminal justice system to recognise its own casteist biases For India’s Dalits and Adivasis, May 1 this year was a ‘May Day’ in more ways than one…. Continue Reading →

Chhattisgarh- Gunning for Ganapathy: Tales about Maoists

Security agencies still subscribe to the likelihood that Ganapathy is holed up in the relatively inaccessible Abujmarh area in south-western Chhattisgarh Sudeep Chakravarti Gadchiroli SP Abhinav Deshmukh and other top officials address a press conference regarding an encounter with Naxals… Continue Reading →

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