Category Kractivism
SC: Marriage deal no alibi to let off rapists Dhananjay Mahapatra, TNN | Aug 28, 2013, SC warns courts against showing leniency towards rape convicts NEW DELHI: In a landmark judgment laying down guidelines for courts in awarding punishment for rape, the Supreme… Continue Reading →
Sexual assault case TNN | Aug 28, 2013, 12.09 PM IST Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Wednesday briefed Sushilkumar Shinde on the ongoing police probe against Asaram Bapu. NEW DELHI: Asaram Bapu’s son has defended his father in the sexual assault case and… Continue Reading →
Reported by Anant Zanane, Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh |NDTV Click to Expand & PlayAsaram Bapu, self-styled godman, has denied the charges against him. (File pic) Shahjahanpur, UP: In a house in Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh, a poster of Asaram Bapu in the prayer room is… Continue Reading →
REVATI LAUL 1 Why no new measures for womens’ safety discussed after December 16 are in place yet – like better street lighting in cities, promptness at police stations and hospitals, proper patrolling of city streets at night 2 Why… Continue Reading →
Flavia Agnes *You have written extensively on how the stigma attached to rape has to be rooted out of society and the need for change in terminology from “rape victim” to “rapes survivor”. We saw in the Delhi incident of… Continue Reading →
Aug 27, 2013, ET Ahmedabad,: The Supreme Court-appointed SIT overlooked the Narendra Modi government’s acts of tampering and destructing sensitive records related to the 2002 riots, Godhra riot victim Zakia Jafri told a court here today. “The SIT totally overlooked as… Continue Reading →
Sahana Manjesh On August 27, 2013 I had an elaborate post as a follow-up to the previous one. But events that have unfolded in Pune in the past few days have compelled me to write this one instead. Kranti is being set up by… Continue Reading →
Published: August 28, 2013 02:10 IST | The Hindu Sandhya Gokhale Amol Palekar Dabholkar’s anti-superstition war demanded a level of introspection of which we are incapable In December 2003, Pune’s Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute was vandalized by 150 attackers… Continue Reading →
Biometric Data Collection For Home Ministry’s National Population Register (NPR) And Planning Commission’s Aadhaar Number Is Illegal And Illegitimate By Gopal Krishna 25 August, 2013 Countercurrents.org Proposed Convergence of Census, NPR, Adhaar Number, Family Identification Number under SECC, NATGRID, NCTC… Continue Reading →
Vipul Kumar, Facebook August 27, Mumbai: Today at about 11:00 am in the morning 150 homeless people of Agarwari were forcefully and illegally evicted by the Brihan Mumbai Municipal Corporation from the pavement where they resided from the past… Continue Reading →