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Day February 18, 2015

PUCL Statement: Stop persecution by Prosecution of Teesta Setalvad

  For favour of Publication and Circulation. PEOPLE’S UNION FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES                                                                … Continue Reading →

‘What we did for the environment has been undone by the new govt’

Image: Jairam Ramesh with his new book, Green Signals. ‘This is not a Sanjay Baru or Natwar Singh type of book. It’s not a memoir. It’s not a book to reveal conversations, real or imaginary. This is not a book to… Continue Reading →

HRDA-India: Statement in Support of Teesta Setalvad and Javed Anand

Human Rights Defenders Alert – India National Coordination Office 6, Vallabai Road, Chokkikulam, Madurai 625 002. Tamil Nadu, INDIA Tel: +91-9994368540 Email: [email protected] HRDA-India: Statement in Support of Teesta Setalvad and Javed Anand The Human Rights Defenders Alerts – India [HRDA], is shocked… Continue Reading →

SC rejects plea to make marital rape a criminal offence #Vaw #WTFnews

Bhadra Sinha, Hindustan Times, New Delhi The Supreme Court Tuesday refused to entertain a woman’s plea to declare marital rape a criminal offence, saying it wasn’t possible to order a change in the law for one person. A Delhi-based MNC executive… Continue Reading →

Prashant Bhushan on Hounding Of Teesta Setalvad  #mustread

Prashant Bhushan Attempts to arrest her and subject her to “custodial interrogation” are uncalled for The case of Teesta Setalvad is a chilling example of what can still happen to even highly acclaimed and well connected per sons in this… Continue Reading →

Indo- US Nuclear shield for MNCs 

Author(s): Kundan Pandey  Feb 28, 2015 |  The new Indo-US agreement protects American companies from being held liable for nuclear accidents US President Barack Obama (left) and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on January 25. India has offered… Continue Reading →

Brutal Oppression and Atrocity on Dalit & Adivasi Women to Supress their Rights under FRA-2006 in Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

An update by Delhi Solidarity Group, On the morning of 6th February at 10:30am in Badi village of Sonbhadra district, around 200 hooligans associated to local land mafia attacked the house of Shobha who belongs to the dalit community. In this barbarous attack Shobha’s house was… Continue Reading →

Indian Government seeks corporate help in changing environmental laws #WTFnews

The environment ministry has invited proposals to help implement the controversial TSR Subramanian Committee recommendations. Nayantara Narayanan, Scroll.in Photo Credit: Spykster/Flickr The Narendra Modi government is changing the rulebook for environment regulation in the country and seeking corporate India’s help to… Continue Reading →

In TISS, reading session held to protest Ferreira event cancellation #FOE

Days after controversial author’s visit is cancelled, TISS students read in protest Mumbai Mirror Bureau Institute director had said Arun Ferreira would not be invited to speak as he was not amenable to reason, had no scholarly value Days after… Continue Reading →

Gujarat cops on a witch hunt  in Teesta Case

Mumbai: TIMES NEWS NETWORK MUMBAI, February 18, 2015   A group of social activists on Tuesday called the Gujarat police insistence on taking Teesta Setalvad and Javed Anand in custody a witch hunt.Setalvad and Anand, through their NGO Citizens for Justice… Continue Reading →

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