Month February 2017
Nisha Ponthathil By unveiling a 112-feet-tall Shiva idol on Friday, constructed by flouting environmental laws and building regulations, at Isha Foundation, a spiritual organisation founded by yoga guru, Jaggi Vasudev in Coimbatore, is Prime Minister Narendra Modi endorsing violations of… Continue Reading →
By Sugata Ghosh, MUMBAI: From late May to end July of 2016, India was struck by what till now is the worst cyber breach to compromise the country’s payments network. Bank customers, including several foreign travellers, using as many as 3.2… Continue Reading →
Not a single Application or Appeal of Harinder Dhingra, who has filed about 8,800 RTI applications and more than 3,663 second Appeals in five years, has been dismissed as ‘without merit’ PAWAN BANSAL Workaholic forever: At the age of 60,… Continue Reading →
JNUTA STATEMENT ON VIOLENCE AND INTIMIDATION IN DELHI UNIVERSITY AND OTHER UNIVERSITIES (23 FEBRUARY 2017) The JNU Teachers Association condemns in strongest terms the violence and hooliganism perpetrated in Delhi University by the ABVP over the last two days, reported… Continue Reading →
Hiral Dave Hindustan Times, Ahmedabad The victim was allegedly gang raped by nine men, including BJP members, in Naliya town of Gujarat’s Kutch.(Representative image) A 24-year-old woman, who was allegedly gang raped by nine men, including BJP members, in Naliya… Continue Reading →
Sri Sri Ravishankar’s organisation went back on its commitment to pay the fine for hosting a three-day festival that affected Yamuna floodplains An expert committee told the National Green Tribunal in August 2016 that the festival had “completely… Continue Reading →
Docs Remove Women’s Uteruses for Profit, Authorities Refuse to Help. Would it be Different if Men’s Genitalia Had Been Removed? By Ila Ananya Photo courtesy: Vijayakumar Seethappa. On 6th February, around 600 Dalit and Lambadi women from different tandas in… Continue Reading →
Khasi District Council Anupam Chakravartty After the Centre reiterated its move to open up uranium mining in the state, the highest council of the Khasi community says it will not grant an NOC The Centre, in February 2017, reiterated… Continue Reading →
“RSS planned to assassinate top CPI(M) leaders and orchestrate communal riots at Kozhikkode” Former Kokkallur RSS Sakha Karyakartha T.N. Anoop made a shocking revelation in a press conference that the RSS had planned to assassinate top leaders of the CPI(M)… Continue Reading →
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Thursday ordered discussion on lie detector test on Congress leader Jagdish Tytler on March 16 in connection with 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. Abhishek Verma, an arms dealer, who was also issued notice by court… Continue Reading →