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Mumbai, Cops detain boy for FB post against Raj Thackeray #censorship

Boy questioned for alleged Facebook post against Raj Thackeray let off POLITICS NEWS, Updated Nov 29, 2012 at 08:50am IST CNN-IBN Mumbai: The 19-year-old boy who was questioned for allegedly posting offensive comments against Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray on… Continue Reading →

#India-Bt failure to hit cotton yield by 40%: Govt

Published: Monday, Nov 26, 2012, 5:48 IST By Yogesh Pawar | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA For the first time, Maharashtra has officially admitted that cotton yield is likely to reduce by nearly 40%. Bt cotton failure in more than 4 million… Continue Reading →

Bal Thackeray, or, Why the Communists Did Nothing

November 22, 2012 by Saroj Giri, Sanhati Right where Bal Thackeray was cremated, at Shivaji Park in Mumbai, another event had taken place in June 1970: “a twenty-five-thousand-strong funeral procession marched to Shivaji Park, the Sena stronghold, shouting anti-Shiv Sena… Continue Reading →

#India- Status of doctors at Primary Health Centres

Nov 12, 2012 According to PRS legislative Research , Public health care in rural areas is provided through a multi-tier network. Public Health Centres (PHCs) are provided for every population of 30,000 in the plains and 20,000 in the hills. Generally, each… Continue Reading →

Govandi infants died of malnutrition, did not gain any weight after birth: HC panel

ic courtesy- Reuters HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times Mumbai, November 11, 2012 A Bombay High Court appointed committee on Saturday said that two infants from Govandi died of malnutrition last week. The two children, aged one month and seven months, weighed… Continue Reading →

Fatima nightingale #empowerment

Mohammed Wajihuddin | November 10, 2012, Times Crest Orthodoxy has kept Muslim women from taking up nursing as a career. One man’s campaign in a sleepy Maharashtra town might change that. In her white nurse’s uniform, Sumaiyya Imam Hussain takes a bus… Continue Reading →

The Full Ponty- ICDS and Corruption in India

The full Ponty Samar Halarnkar, Hindustan Times November 07, 2012 High-school dropout Gurdeep Singh Chadha, or “Ponty” as his friends call him, has achieved the Indian dream. A portly, religious Punjabi with a salt-and-pepper beard, Chadha (52) has a farmhouse… Continue Reading →

Bombay HC- Personal info can’t be disclosed under RTI #Privacy

Vaibhav Ganjapure, TNN | Nov 9, 2012, 01.31AM IST NAGPUR: Giving privilege to the right to privacy, the Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court ruled that personal information, which serves no public interest, can’t be disclosed under the Right to Information (RTI)… Continue Reading →

Bombay HC – Caste claims can’t be rejected based on parent’s domicile #mustshare

  Vaibhav Ganjapure, TNN Oct 27, 2012, 01.35AM IST NAGPUR: In an important verdict, the Bombay high court’s bench in Aurangabad has ruled that caste claims can’t be rejected on the basis that the parents originally belong to other states. “The… Continue Reading →

Mumbai’s ‘castaways’ still wait for home #tribals #indigenous

5 November 2012 By Zubair Ahmed BBC Hindi, Mumbai  There is no water or electricity supply in the settlement and villagers have to walk for miles to get water On the plateau of a verdant hill range, near India‘s commercial capital,… Continue Reading →

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