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Day February 19, 2015

Open letter to Arnab Goswami on Teesta Setalvad case

Arnab Goswami, Lekhi, Jethmalani & a bundle of Lies – Rukmini Sen Dear Arnab Goswami, Three Quick points- 1) Zakia Jafri has not taken her case/statement back from any court. 2) No court has said Teesta Setalvad is guilty of Perjury…. Continue Reading →

Dalit youth beaten up for dining with upper caste people #WTFnews

Press Trust of India  |  Jalaun (UP)  February 18, 2015 Last Updated at 18:45 IST A 30-year-old Dalit youth had to pay for the “crime” of breaking bread with his feudal masters in a Uttar Pradesh village. Members belonging to an upper caste took… Continue Reading →

Chhattisgarh Fact Finding – War and the Lightness of Being Adivasi: Security camps and villages in Bijapur

  PEOPLE’S UNION FOR DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS   Release of fact-finding report, War and the Lightness of Being Adivasi: Security camps and villages in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh 18th February, 2015 Between December 26th and 31st 2014, a PUDR fact-finding team visited 9 villages of Bijapur district,… Continue Reading →

“They Did What They Liked”: Chevron and Dow on Trial #Bhopalgastragedy

Madhusree Mukerjee ▪ Fall 2014 Dissent Magazine Ecuadorian victim of wastewater contamination (Caroline Bennett / Rainforest Action Network) “They want me to be bankrupt, they want my wife to leave me, they want me to jump off a building,” says Steven Donziger,… Continue Reading →

#Goodnews- New SC bench to hear bail plea in Teesta Setalvad case

Teesta and Javed were compelled to move the Supreme Court after the High Court rejected their anticipatory bail plea. Written by Utkarsh Anand | New Delhi | Posted: February 19, 2015 12:33 am | Updated: February 19, 2015 11:32 am A high-voltage drama… Continue Reading →

BJP leader Prodyut Bora quits party, blames PM Modi for his functioning style

Bora also hit out at the BJP state leadership, including president Siddhartha Bhattacharyya and two Assam MPs amongst others. (Source: facebook.com) Written by Samudra Gupta Kashyap | Guwahati | Posted: February 19, 2015 12:41 am | Updated: February 19, 2015 9:51 am BJP… Continue Reading →

By attacking activists and NGOs, India is becoming more like China

One hopes the Supreme Court will not be swayed by anti-activist opinions when it takes up the hearing of Teesta Setalvad and Javed Anand. N JAYARAM @n_jayaram Among a few obsessions India and China share is a paranoid distrust of… Continue Reading →

SC – Husband’s illicit relationship is not always cruelty #WTFnews #Vaw

Feb 19, 2015, 02.22AM IST TNN The prosecution had accused the husband and his parents of cruelty and alleged that the woman was driven to suicide as her husband was having an illicit relationship with another woman. NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court… Continue Reading →

India – The Great Toilet Hoax #Enviornment

We have had a decade and a half of the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) of the Government of India since 1999 to stop the practice of open defecation and increase the use of toilets which were used by only 29… Continue Reading →

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