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Month August 2018

Full Text of Petition Filed Against Arrest of Five Rights Activists

  The Supreme Court has directed to keep the five accused under house arrest. The next hearing in the case is scheduled for September 6. Arun Ferreira, Sudha Bharadwaj, Varavara Rao, Gautam Navlakha and Vernon Gonsalves. IN THE SUPREME COURT… Continue Reading →

Mumbai – 37 Rights Groups demand immediate release of human rights activists

JOINT STATEMENT OF RIGHTS GROUPS AT PRESS CONFERENCE HELD ON 29TH AUGUST 2018 AT MUMBAI PRESS CLUB, CONDEMNING THE ARRESTS OF PROMINENT HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS FOLLOWING SIMULTANEOUS MULTI-CITY RAIDS BY POLICE ON 28TH AUGUST 2018. On 28th August 2018, simultaneous… Continue Reading →

Vedanta gets Rs 97.5 crore penalty for illegal mining royalty #Goodnews

The DMG had first issued a show cause notice to Vedanta on August 4, 2016 and was subsequently granted personal hearing in the matter. In a move to recover the gains made from alleged illegal mining, the Goa‘s directorate of mines and geology has… Continue Reading →

India – Sanatan Prabhat’s 2013 plan to establish Hindu Rashtra

By Shruti Ganapatye, Mumbai Mirror June 9, 2013, issue of Sanatan Prabhat exhorted followers to note down names of police personnel to avenge ‘atrocities’ on Hindus; Charudatta Pingale denies having spoken in such a manner. Sanatan Prabhat, the mouthpiece of right-wing… Continue Reading →

Mumbai: BMC Action Pushes Fruit Seller To Kill Himself #WTFnews

| Anurag Kamble Chandrakant Sonawane, a resident of Lokmanya Nagar in Thane, had been selling fruits at Mulund for the last 20 years. However, three to four months ago, he began facing problems as BMC authorities Who sold fruits outside… Continue Reading →

Maharshtra ATS wants longer custody of Santan Sanstha ‘s Raut and 3 others arrested

By Vinay Dalvi, Mumbai Mirror |   The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) on Tuesday produced Sanatan Sanstha ‘sympathisers’ Vaibhav Raut, Sharad Kalaskar, Sudhanwa Gondhalekar and Shrikhant Panagarkar before Additional Sessions Judge Sameer Adkar, who sent them to ATS custody till September… Continue Reading →

India – You can delink your Aadhaar with your bank account

 Wishing you had never linked Aadhaar to your bank account, and wishing you could delink? Many people linked their Aadhaar numbers to their bank account under coercion and fear of losing access to their financial assets. However, for those now… Continue Reading →

Rajiv Gandhi, ‘the father of mob lynching’: Is such a hoarding outside BJP headquarters right or wrong?

The bottom of the poster reads, ‘Published by Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga’. The morning of August 28, 2018 in Delhi saw a new sight. Mausami Singh, an India Today journalist, reported about a hoarding outside the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headquarters. Bejewelled… Continue Reading →

Why do the police believe that lawyers—who struggle to uphold Constitutional values—are Maoists?

BhimaKoregaonRaids and what the crackdown on public-spirited lawyers mean   By Raksha Kumar | Twitter Facebook   Around 7 AM on Tuesday, police teams simultaneously conducted raids in Mumbai, Delhi, Ranchi, Goa and Hyderabad. The extensive, well coordinated, covert operation was not against armed… Continue Reading →

“They Are Terrorising and Harassing Innocents Like Me On the Basis of an Unverified Letter”

Anand Teltumbde “I was not even at the conference” Statement on the Police Acton against me on 28 August 2018 I had just woken up somewhat late, tired of late night arrival of the flight. Just saw missed calls from… Continue Reading →

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