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Month February 2017

Marriage procession blocked by Upper caste members in Ujjain

INDORE ( 6 Feb ): Upper caste people blocked marriage procession of a youth hailing from scheduled caste in a village near Barnagar town of Ujjain district on Monday, prompting administration and police officials to step in to maintain law… Continue Reading →

Facebook shareholders want Mark Zuckerberg out as board chairman

  It would seem founders are not having it good either in India or globally. It is now the turn of Facebook’s Founder Mark Zuckerberg to face heat over his removal from the company’s board. Mark Zuckerberg According to media… Continue Reading →

One family fought the system and stopped Donald Trump’s first venture in India

Prasad Panvalkar opposed plans for India’s first Trump Tower because the local builder refused to offer his family housing in the new development. (Shashank Bengali / Los Angeles Times) Shashank Bengali When a Mumbai real estate developer acquired a crumbling,… Continue Reading →

Nagaland – Equality’s time has come

Naga women’s claim to economic equality has unsettled its male-dominated tribal bodies = by Monalisa Changkija | Kohima: The Kohima Municipal Council office which was set ablaze by Naga tribals during their violent protest, in Kohima on Friday. (PTI Photo) To… Continue Reading →

Gujarat – 150 children forced to travel to school in boats

VADODARA/ANAND: Hundreds of villages residing in two adjacent villages in the Khambhat taluka of Anand district are completely cut off as a dilapidated bridge constructed over a creek nearly three decades ago had collapsed last month. Although these villages are… Continue Reading →

Nirbhaya Fund Not Reaching Intended Beneficiaries, SC Told #Vaw

IANS A file image of people holding placards at a programme to observe the 4th anniversary of Nirbhaya gang-rape case as ‘Nirbhaya Chetna Divas’ at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI) New Delhi: The Supreme Court was told on… Continue Reading →

India – Eat this, says ‘untouchable’ entrepreneur

A businessman from the ‘untouchable’ Dalit caste in India likens his packaged food business to a social experiment to see if people have really shrugged off their prejudice. A FORMER rebel fighter and member of India’s “untouchable” caste is taking… Continue Reading →

India – JNU wins Visitor’s Award for best central university #FacePalm

The President Pranab Mukherjee will hand over the best central university award to Vice-Chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar on March 6. JNUJawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has been identified as the best central university in the country for the ‘Visitor’s Award’ this… Continue Reading →

Hysterectomy scam: Doctors cheat Lambani, dalit women #Vaw

Aparajita Ray & Mouneshwar Sonnad| TNN | Representative image BENGALURU/KALABURAGI: A major racket involving removal of the uterus of nearly 2,200 women belonging to the Lambani and dalit communities has come to light, with four hospitals involved continuing to function… Continue Reading →

Manipur Elections 2017: Irom Sharmila Decides To Drop Khurai Constituency, Will Contest Only From Thoubal

“I gave up Khurai due to some inconveniences.” Indrani BasuNews Editor, HuffPost India HINDUSTAN TIMES VIA GETTY IMAGES File photo of Manipur Human Rights activist Irom Chanu Sharmila. IMPHAL, Manipur — Human rights activist Irom Sharmila, who is contesting in… Continue Reading →

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