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Day November 19, 2014

What happens to the irrigation scam now, Mr Fadnavis? 

Author: Aparna Pallavi  The new BJP government in Maharashtra has cleared the trust vote with help from the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). Will it now be in a position to take stern action against those involved in the mammoth 70,000 crore… Continue Reading →

Agent Orange and the Politics of Poisons

Determined citizens are working to uncover “one of the best kept secrets of the Cold War era. Determined to end this silence, a group of Japan-based citizens including journalists, professors, and environmental activists have been gathering evidence and speaking out… Continue Reading →

Sterlization Deaths – स्वास्थ्य मंत्री के घर पहुंचे स्टूडेंट‌स पर पुलिस ने भांजी लाठियां

Bhaskar News|Nov 18, 2014, 19:29PM IST रायपुर। बिलासपुर में 19 मौतों के बाद  नसबंदी का मुद्दा गरम है। पुलिस की दमनकारी कार्रवाई इसे और गरम कर रही है। सोमवार की शाम जब विद्यार्थियों का एक समूह स्वास्थ्य मंत्री के यहां विरोध… Continue Reading →

SBI’s $1 billion loan to Adani makes no sense, here’s why

By Vivek Kaul  The State Bank of India(SBI) has decided to lend up to $1 billion to Adani Mining, the Australian subsidiary of Adani Enterprises for the Carmichael mine in Queensland, Australia. The mine has massive blocks of untapped coal… Continue Reading →

Maruti Workres Struggle

In a context where contract workers, increasing in numbers exponentially, are finding it ever harder to get united/organized due to the precarious nature of their work and life conditions, workers at ASTI Electronics and in nearby Munjal Kiriu are keeping… Continue Reading →

Hindu right rewriting Indian textbooks

  Books by Hindu nationalists merging myth with reality proliferate in PM Modi’s home state of Gujarat. Raksha KumarLast updated: 04 Nov 2014 11:29 The Gujarat government has introduced nine new textbooks this academic year [Raksha Kumar/Al Jazeera] Ahmedabad, Gujarat – You cannot… Continue Reading →

I Love a Paranoid Country

Monday, 17 November 2014By Niall McLaren, Truthout | Op-Ed   (Image: Australian police via Shutterstock)I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains … Since it was written 110 years ago, Dorothea Mackellar‘s stirring poem has been sung… Continue Reading →

The ‘Honour’ That ‘Needs’ Protection: Why Do College Campuses Refuse To See Women As Adults?

   YouthKiAwaaz  November 17, 2014 By Kavita Krishnan: Ever since I spoke on TV about the AMU library issue, students from a variety of other institutions (ranging from Delhi to Guwahati to Hyderabad to Allahabad) have reached out to me about… Continue Reading →

#India – Damning Dalit Dissent

ARUN FERREIRA AND VERNON GONSALVES @storiesunscene The growing number and increasing brutality of caste atrocities by upper castes on Dalits and tribals in Maharashtra in recent months has led to considerable disquiet in the affected communities throughout the state.  Discontent,… Continue Reading →

Modi Myths Vs Hard Facts

  OPINION Modi Myths Vs Hard Facts While the Prime Minister is now exhorting the nation to set new standards in sanitation, his own record in Gujarat leaves much to be desired. R.K. MISRA Offices of power are often breeding… Continue Reading →

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