MUMBAI: In a display of its penchant for eyeball-grabbing protests to voice environmental concerns, activists of non-profit Greenpeace unfurled a massive banner – ‘We Kill Forests: Essar’ on the façade of Essar Group’s 21-storey headquarters in Mahalaxmi on Wednesday afternoon…. Continue Reading →
MORE details have emerged of how a woman fled her Indian village after being threatened and told not to reveal she was gang-raped by 13 men. Men living in the village have also fled from their homes on the orders… Continue Reading →
Milan VaishnavJANUARY 24, 2014 + Share on facebookShare on twitterShare on google_plusone_shareMore Sharing Services Elections in India are known as a one-of-a-kind festival of democracy, replete with colorful pageantry, flamboyant personalities, and very large numbers. The size of the country’s… Continue Reading →
India’s problem is not rigid labour laws but the lack of enforcement of existing protection for workers Harsh Mander The vast majority of jobs created in recent years have been in the informal sector, in the absence of a legal… Continue Reading →
Rajeev Dhavan | Mail Today | New Delhi, January 27, 2014 | Rajeev Dhavan The death penalty, the mercy petition, the power to pardon, court review are four inextricably linked stages followed in death cases as step-by-step safeguards to decide between life and death…. Continue Reading →
NITYANAND JAYARAMAN I am avowedly anti-police. I am only half-convinced when I say that they are a necessary evil. The “necessary” part is what I get doubtful about. This last Saturday was different. I found myself uncomfortably on… Continue Reading →
The Supreme Court on Monday took suo motu cognisance of a horrific incident of chopping off the right hands of two migrant labourers from Odisha by a contractor from Andhra Pradesh in December 2013. Taking cognisance of a media report on the… Continue Reading →
Acknowledging Arvind Kejriwal‘s political acumen would be the first step for his opponents to derive an antidote to the AAP Clearly, Arvind Kejriwal is gambling by choosing among his supporters and settling for the numerically larger grouping. Photo: Ramesh… Continue Reading →
r Narayan Desai Eminent Gandhian Narayan Desai’s letter to Japanese PM. He forwarded our the pictures of protests in India to Mr. Shinzo Abe: Dear Prime Minister, No people have suffered more than the people of Japan due to the… Continue Reading →
by Ashish Khetan ([email protected]) – on 26/01/2014 The MB Shah Commission report on illegal mining in Odisha, exposes how private mining companies earned thousands of crores of rupees by illegally extracting precious iron ore and manganese ore from the mines in… Continue Reading →
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