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Immediate Release-Disappearances from ‘Uttarpara Destitute Home for Female’ Incident #Vaw

A Fact Finding Report     Uttarpara Destitute Home for female incident is now a well discussed topic for popular printed and electronic media. 11 women aged between 22 and 35 years escaped from the said home without leaving behind… Continue Reading →

#India- No trial by mob: The answer to gangrape cannot be gang justice #Vaw

by Sandip Roy Jan 7, 2013, Firstpost When the police finally filed a chargesheet against the five adults accused in the gang rape case, according to media reports, some women lawyers shouted in the courtroom that there was no need for a trial… Continue Reading →

Kolkata: Activist, who had immolated self against minor’s rape,dies #Vaw

INDIA, Updated Jan 05, 2013 at 09:12am IST CNN-IBN Kolkata: Battling injuries for nearly a month, the 36-year-old social activist Mir Aminul Islam passed away in Kolkata on January 1. It took Kolkata police Aminul’s suicide attempt on December 3 to… Continue Reading →

#India- Why subsidise the rape capital? #Vaw

Garga Chatterjee | Agency: DNA | Sunday, December 23, 2012 There should be no doubt at this point — Delhi is the rape capital of South Asia. No amount of regular manicuring of Lutyens lawns and NewDelhi-Gurgaon-style faux ‘cosmopolitanism’ can take… Continue Reading →

#Chhattisgarh govt to probe on botched rural eye camp #medicalnegligence

BS Reporter / Kolkata/ Raipur Dec 18, 2012, 00:08 IST Chhattisgarh government, on Monday , has ordered a probe on the botched eye camp held in Mahasamund district in which 15 patients allegedly lost their vision. The patients mostly from… Continue Reading →

#India has 477 people on death row- shocker ? #deathpenalty

Dec13, BBC India allows the death penalty for the ‘rarest of rare’ crimes There are 477 convicts on death row in India, the government says. The information was revealed in the Rajya Sabha [the upper house of the parliament] in… Continue Reading →

JU students take out first ever street protest in Kolkata to free Soni Sori

Piyush Guha, who was also arrested on charges of sedition and released in 2011, says that the government wants the people on the periphery not to speak, not to think Ajachi Chakrabarti December 13, 2012, TEHELKA Jadavpur University students take… Continue Reading →

Brother beheads Sister forfor ‘dishonouring’ family in Kolkata #honorkilling #Vaw

TNN | Dec 8, 2012, 03.47 AM IST KOLKATA: In the first honour killing in Kolkata in decades, a 29-year-old youth dragged his sister out on the street and cut off her head with one stroke of the sword in Ayubnagar locality… Continue Reading →

A minor boy was throttled, tortured by police at Serampore, Hooghly

To The Chairman West Bengal Human Rights Commission Bhabani Bhaban Alipur Kolkata 27   Respected Sir, We lodge this present complaint in the matter of physical torture committed upon the victim Binayak Banerjee from District-Hooghly, West Bengal by the perpetrator… Continue Reading →

#Vedanta to stick to December 5 deadline for closure of refinery

Sadananda Mohapatra / Kolkata/ Bhubaneswar Dec 03, 2012, 00:07 IST, Business Standard   Vednata Aluminium Ltd (VAL), which had given a three-month advance notice to the Odisha government for closure of its Lanjigarh alumina refinery from December 5 citing unavailability… Continue Reading →

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