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Month August 2017

2000 police personnel march to protest site, Medha Patkar forcibly removed on 12th day of fast

  Patkar is protesting against inadequate rehabilitation and resettlement of families affected by the Sardar Sarovar dam on the Narmada river. Neeraj Santoshi Hindustan Times, Bhopal Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) leader Medha Patkar, who is on an indefinite hunger strike… Continue Reading →

Maharashtra – Mughals are a lost chapter in state board’s textbooks

By Rahi Gaikwad, Mumbai Mirror |  History textbooks for Std VII and IX revised, Akbar’s reign reduced to three lines as focus is on Shivaji’s Maratha Empire They may have given us the Taj Mahal, Urdu language, and a terrific cuisine, but… Continue Reading →

Padma Shri Prof Sukhadeo Thorat- Incidences of untouchability not only persist, they are increasing

“Incidences of untouchability not only persist, they are increasing”, argued Padma Shri Prof Sukhadeo Thorat, former chair of ICSSR, while delivering the ninth Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer Memorial Lecture at the Asiatic Library in Mumbai on Saturday. The Lecture was… Continue Reading →

Patient dies as Haryana BJP leader ‘stops’ ambulance for 30 minutes #WTFnews

The BJP leader, however, denied the allegations and said he had a word with the ambulance driver after it reached the hospital. The BJP leader allegedly stopped the ambulance near the Lal Batti Chowk in Hisar.(Representative Image/HT) Days after the Haryana… Continue Reading →

As Haryana BJP chief’s son gets bail, questions arise over police action #Vaw

Haryana BJP chief’s son  was held for stalking DJ, drink-driving; woman narrates ordeal on Facebook The accused were arrested from the housing board light point, Manimjara, bordering Panchkula district of Haryana. After Haryana Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president’s son, Vikas… Continue Reading →

JSA -Health of thousands at risk as Narmada dam gates shut

NEW DELHI: Jan Swasthya Abhiyan decried the inhuman attitude of the Gujarat government in risking thousands of lives in the Narmada Valley by closing the gates of the Sardar Sarovar dam on June 17 despite the rehabilitation of dam-affected people not having been completed…. Continue Reading →

What is Hindu Rashtra ?

What is happening today is a vile attack on the very concept of Indian nationhood that subsumes a wide range of diversity with the intention to replace it with the rabidly intolerant and fascistic Hindu rashtra. By SITARAM YECHURY » An… Continue Reading →

Rhodes scholar to Carnatic singer, meet 4 young lawyers in privacy fight

  Prasanna believes that technology ruling lives can only be deemed as fair if it is “proveably so and nothing in Aadhaar has been able to convince me of that”. (From left) Gautam Bhatia, Prasanna S, Kritika Bhardwaj and Apar… Continue Reading →

After Chhattisgarh , now cow ambulance service to be started in MP #WTFnews

Amid ongoing debate over cow protection and controversies over cow vigilantes a cow ambulance service is being started by the authorities in Madhya Pradesh BHOPAL Neeraj Santoshi, Hindustan Times, Bhopal File photo (Photo by Parveen Kumar/Hindustan Times) Bhopal: Amid ongoing… Continue Reading →

CRPF troopers accused of molesting Dantewada schoolgirls, cops launch probe #Vaw

A public relations exercise to boost the CRPF’s relations with tribals in the Maoist bastion of Dantewada backfired badly after a few troopers allegedly molested some schoolgirls. Ritesh Mishra Hindustan Times, Raipur The Chhattisgarh Police has launched a probe after… Continue Reading →

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