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Indian Tribal Women Rush to a Champion’s Defense #Womenrights

By Swapna Majumdar WeNews correspondent Friday, May 31, 2013 Tribal women in India are mobilizing behind a leading maternal-health advocate. Supporters say the case against Madhuri Krishnaswamy was concocted to stop her from flagging rights violations that led to 25… Continue Reading →

#Mumbai Three-yr-old raped by uncle in theatre #childabuse #WTFnews

The accused was caught in the act by other movie goers when the girl started crying; in another incident, a 10-year-old boy was sodomised by an acquaintance May 27, 2013 MUMBAI Sagar Rajput, mID DAY With one case of rape… Continue Reading →

#India – Judges have to watch their scorecard

V. VENKATESAN The deplorably small number of judgments by Justice Cyriac Joseph, especially when courts have a huge backlog of cases, is valid enough reason for concern at his suitability for the National Human Rights Commission The Indian Supreme Court… Continue Reading →

Pune German Bakery Case – How the ATS conspired to destroy all evidence

BY ASHISH KHETAN [email protected] > PUNE GERMAN BAKERY CASE On February 13, 2010, a powerful bomb tore apart the  famous German bakery situated atthe posh colony of Koregaon Park in Pune. Seventeen persons were killed and 58 suffered severeto minor… Continue Reading →

#India – She has marks but no money to realise her dream #mustshare

M.K. ANANTH, The Hindu NAMAKKAL, May 21, 2013 S. Gayathri. S. Gayathri (17) of Chinnamaruthur in Pilikalpalayam panchayat, Paramathi Velur taluk, about 35 km from Namakkal town, has scored 1,129 (94 per cent) in the recent Plus Two exams. She aspires… Continue Reading →

Far from Delhi- 4 year old Rape victim , battling for Life #Vaw

Four-year-old Seoni rape victim airlifted to Nagpur Manjari Mishra, TNN | Apr 21, 2013, JABALPUR: With her sexually brutalized four-year-old granddaughter Rani (name changed) battling death for 48 hours in ICU on Saturday afternoon, after having been raped on April 17 night by a… Continue Reading →

Activists Welcome the SC judgement on Vedanta, and mining in Niyamgiri #Victory #Tribalrights

  PPSS welcomes the verdict of Supreme court yesterday (i.e. 18th April 2013)  on  the issues of mining in Niyamagiri hills of Odisha. The verdict said that it’s upto the Gram Sabha (Village-level Assembly) to decide whether to allow mining in Niyamgiri Hills by the… Continue Reading →

Himachal BJP MLA says Nagas and Gorkhas should eat monkeys to maintain ecological balance #WTFnews

Gorkhas protest HP BJP MLA’s monkey-eating remark Naresh K Thakur , Hindustan Times   Dharamsala, April 08, 2013 Perturbed over the statement of former minister and BJP legislator Ravinder Singh Ravi on Gorkhas, the community demanded the suspension of the saffron party… Continue Reading →

Maharashtra – Co-operative societies now come under RTI Act #mustshare

  VINITA DESHMUKH | 10/04/2013 , Moneylife.in Co-operatives make up for one-sixth of Maharashtra’s economy; they are also abodes of chronic corruption. No wonder, many are yet to digest the fact that co-operatives have now come under the RTI Act and so… Continue Reading →

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