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Aug 13, 2013 We strongly condemn India’s recent acquisition of a nuclear-propelled submarine close on the heels of the recent flight-test of another nuclear-capable missile. Brandishing these tools of mass destruction as guarantees of national security while ignoring the issues… Continue Reading →
Narendra Modi‘s decision to set up SIRs receives disapproval from farmers Mitul Thakkar, ET Bureau Aug 11, 2013, 04.00AM IST (Farmers of Vithalapur village…) For many decades the sleepy town of Becharaji in Gujarat’s Mehsana district was known only for its… Continue Reading →
Mateen Hafeez & Madhavi Rajadhyaksha, TNN | Aug 12, 2013, 06.57 AM IS Only one in five people accused of rape in Mumbai is convicted for the crime, a Right to Information application has revealed. The query was for patterns in the… Continue Reading →
Urmi A Goswami, ET Bureau Aug 12, 2013, (Even 37 years after Parliament…) NEW DELHI: After losing her husband to an illness,Jeyanthi (name changed) was forced to step in as the bread earner for her six young children. With no education, work… Continue Reading →
Below is a detailed report of thousands of Adivasi files community forest resource claims in Dudhwa National Park, District Lakhimpur Khiri, Uttar Pradesh. Around 2220 claims of community resource rights were filed with the tribal affair department project officer on 31st… Continue Reading →
AARTI DHAR, The Hindu When medical professionals, legal experts, health activists, and the officials of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare meet here on Monday, on their agenda is a rather peculiar subject — rising cases of hysterectomies in… Continue Reading →
For those who spread hatred, this should be an eye-opener. Monday, Aug 12, 2013, 7:20 IST | Place: Srinagar | Agency: DNA Ishfaq-ul-Hassan When Kishtwar was burning, a group of Muslims set an example of communal harmony by reaching out… Continue Reading →
Sudesh Rai’s Message from Darjeeling [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/105010918″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Houses dismounted and destroyed. The narrator of the story (identity withheld on request and due to security reasons)was among hundreds of people, belonging to the minority Chakma… Continue Reading →
Kozhikode, Published: August 12, 2013 , The Hindu Staff Reporter Shabnam Hashmi, human rights activist, is surprised at the talk of Central forces descending on the State capital. The Gujarat model of development which is being hailed in mainstream media… Continue Reading →
By ET Bureau | 12 Aug, 2013, In Gujarat, it is not explicit laws of the kind used by Nazis that are at work, but a silent consensus in which discrimination seems entirely normal. On Friday, the day of… Continue Reading →