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Day January 31, 2015

DD Gujarat official sent to Andamans for airing Jashodaben news #WTFnews

By Vasudha Venugopal, ET Bureau | 31 Jan, 2015, 01.30AM IST VM Vanol, who has just over a year to retire, was transferred in Jan second week while the less-than-two minute item was aired by DD Girnar. NEW DELHI: Doordarshan has… Continue Reading →

Supreme Court Moves to Undo Civil Rights Law … Again

Posted on Jan 29, 2015 By Sonali Kolhatkar Shutterstock The U.S. Supreme Court has once again taken it upon itself to reconsider a landmark civil rights law. Under the Fair Housing Act of 1968 and subsequent legal precedents, individuals or institutions can… Continue Reading →

Mass surveillance is fundamental threat to human rights, says European report

  Luke Harding – The Guardian Date: January 26, 2015 at 11:11:48 PM GMT+5:30   Mass surveillance is fundamental threat to human rights, says European report   Luke Harding – The Guardian   Europe’s top rights body says scale of NSA… Continue Reading →

Urdu newspaper editor arrested over reprint of Hebdo’s Prophet cartoon

Mumbai Urdu daily editor hounded despite apology for reproducing Prophet cartoon Mohammed Wajihuddin,TNN | Jan 31, 2015, 12.58 AM IST Mumbai: Shirin Dalvi, editor of Urdu daily Avadhnama, has not gone home in Thane’s Mumbra, a Muslim-dominated township, since her… Continue Reading →

Nuclear deal no cause for celebration

      SUVRAT RAJU M. V. RAMANA         AP OVERSIGHT: “Although the design defects in reactor GE Mark I was first noted about 40 years ago, the nuclear industry resisted regulatory changes that could have ameliorated… Continue Reading →

Obama and Modi want to sell nuclear power to India that is too dangerous and expensive even for US

Only two new nuclear plants are being built in the US and even they are way over budget. Hozefa Merchant, Jim Riccio and Sunanda Mehta  Photo Credit: IANS The recent “breakthrough” in the nuclear talks between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi… Continue Reading →

Varanasi: Doctor performs 73 sterilisation surgeries under open sky  #WTFnews

Rajat Rai   |   Mail Today  |   Lucknow, January 31, 2015 The doctor, it has also been alleged, forced the women to move out of the health centre and asked them to lie down under the open sky.In a shocking incident at a primary health… Continue Reading →

Poke Me: The sham and dangerous ‘secular debate’

Jan 29, 2015, 08.20PM IST This week’s ” Poke Me”, invites your comments on ‘The sham and dangerous ‘secular debate’. The feature will be reproduced on the edit page of the Saturday edition of the newspaper with a pick of… Continue Reading →

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