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Month February 2017

Gujarat: Laid-off Navsarjan staffers want PM to restore FCRA licence

As many as 50 former employees of Ahmedabad-based Navsarjan Trust have urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to restore Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) licence of the trust. The trust’s FCRA licence was cancelled by the Union Home Ministry in December… Continue Reading →

India – The 2016 Citizenship Amendment Bill

 The Bill Consolidates A Trend Towards A Majoritarian And Exclusionary Concept Of Indian Citizenship By NIRAJA GOPAL JAYAL |  In the aftermath of partition, the Constituent Assembly adopted a pluralistic concept of citizenship, which has been undergoing a transformation to a… Continue Reading →

UP’s Health Variations: From Worse Than Haiti To Better Than India

Oommen C Kurian,   At a time when India’s sex ratio at birth is low and declining–from 909 (2011) to 887 (2014)–there are, in poor, populous Uttar Pradesh (UP), districts such as Aligarh, Moradabad, Mainpuri, Deoria and Balrampur, with sex… Continue Reading →

Israeli torture of Palestinian children ‘institutional’ #WTFnews

Confessions by Palestinians who have been tortured are regularly accepted by Israeli judges, rights groups say. Methods of torture reportedly include slapping the head and forcing a handcuffed individual to squat against a wall for long periods of time [Abid… Continue Reading →

India – Can your baby clear the patriotism test?

G. Sampath MORE-IN Column Width Patanjali probiotic or anthem on rote: what’s the best way to bring up a patriot? The other day, I got into one of those exchanges that newly minted parents often get into with other newly… Continue Reading →

Seat at the Table’ video: Invisible Disability in Spotlight

  By: Katina Paron  (WOMENSENEWS)– There are six people in Bryn Healy’s New Jersey town who have suffered through a painful neurological disease called reflex sympathetic dystrophy. She wrote about the misdiagnosis that followed many of these teens in her… Continue Reading →

India – Malayalam Actress rape & abduction case #Vaw

: Kerala film fraternity comes out in support (Representational Image) On Friday night, the actress was on her way to Kochi from her home in Thrissur when four perpetrators, including her former driver, waylaid her car near Angamaly and sexually… Continue Reading →

Why a top Indian activist is facing threats to her life

Image captionMs Bhatia has worked with Dalits and tribespeople for over 30 years A leading Indian activist has been facing threats to her life in the Maoist-affected central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. The BBC Hindi’s Vineet Khare profiles Bela Bhatia,… Continue Reading →

Corporator from Chitrakoot was raped by UP Minister Prajpati at his official house #Vaw

              LUCKNOW: The rape survivor who has accused UP minister Gayatri Prajapati and his aides of outraging her modesty, has alleged that she was sexually assaulted at the minister’s official residence in Lucknow. In… Continue Reading →

BJP-backed Maharashtra MLC sparks outrage with remarks on soldiers

As the video clip of his speech went viral, BJP-backed Maharashtra MLC Prashant Paricharak got slammed.(Twitter/@ParicharakSpeak) BJP-backed Maharashtra MLC Prashant Paricharak has triggered a political row after making controversial remarks about soldiers at an election rally.“A soldier gets a telegram… Continue Reading →

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