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Day October 7, 2015

Remembering one of the most shameful nuclear episodes in history

The Semipalatinsk tests left hundreds of thousands of people with health problems  As a lifelong anti-nuclear activist, it should really have come as no surprise that Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn would refuse to authorise the use of a nuclear weapon… Continue Reading →

Aadhaar, Waiver of Fundamental Rights, and the Doctrine of Unconstitutional Conditions #UID

r   (Edit: This essay is about whether Aadhaar can be linked to a governmental benefit scheme, and justified on the ground that beneficiaries make a free choice to give up their right to privacy in order to access benefits. The… Continue Reading →

Chhattisgarh- Protest for arrest of guilty policemen in Rape and murder of Meena Khalko

      Sudha Bharadwaj Chhattisgarh Mahila Adhikar Manch, a platform of womens organisations in Chhattisgarh, had organised a one day dharna at Ambikapur on 5th October to protest that even after the Judicial Enquiry Commission’s Report, and an FIR… Continue Reading →

 India vs Abolitionist Countries #DeathPenalty

  The Law Commission of India in its “Report No.262: The Death Penalty” of August 2015 recommended that “the death penalty be abolished for all crimes other than terrorism related offences and waging war. Although there is no valid penological justification… Continue Reading →

How India’s education infrastructure is being systematically demolished

The attempt is to make everyone conform to one body of information, that, inevitably, will be dictated by those who are without specialised knowledge – politicians and bureaucrats. Romila Thapar  ·  The other source of information for society or the public… Continue Reading →

India – What Mahatma Gandhi Said to Those Who Wanted Beef Banned

The following is an excerpt from Gandhi’s prayer discourse of July 25, 1947, from the Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Volume 88, as published online by the Gandhi Heritage Portal. Today is Gandhi Jayanti and The Wire is publishing it in the… Continue Reading →

In her court, she feels the need to codify Muslim personal law #Vaw

The Shariah adalat run by BMMA works to clear a little space for women in the implementation of the Muslim personal law, and ensure that their voice is heard.  Written by Dipti Nagpaul | Nasira Sheikh at her parents’ home in Mahalaxmi…. Continue Reading →

A blot on the Kerala Model #healthcare

  Recent diphtheria deaths in Malappuram are the price we pay for a distorted health development strategy. By Dr B. EKBAL   THE recent spread of the vaccine-preventable infectious disease diphtheria and the consequent death of two students of Arabic… Continue Reading →

Aadhaar turning a trump card for online fraudsters #UID #WTFnews

Srinath Vudali,TNN | Oct 7, 2015, 12.03 AM IST HYDERABAD: Fraudsters are turning Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s ‘Digital India’ campaign on its head to siphon off money from bank accounts of the general public. With the Union government advocating linking… Continue Reading →

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