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Month September 2017

India – Public interest litigation filed calling for investigation into Adani Group

Writ alleges the Adani Group, the Indian company Essar, and several others inflated the price of power equipment and coal ‘in order to cheat the people’ Michael Safi in Delhi Friday 15 September 2017 05.50 BSTLast modified on Friday 15 September 2017 07.22 BST Public-interest… Continue Reading →

A 14-Year-Old Dalit Boy Was Beaten & Forced To Clean Toilets By Social Welfare Workers #WTFnews

Childhood is not the dreamy ideal that we all think of. There is another reality, an unpalatable one. Here’s how the cookie crumbles for many  others in our country inspite of having fundamental rights granted by The Constitution of India   A Dalit… Continue Reading →

India – What floods exposed in Gujarat

Hardnews Bureau In Gujarat, floods have uncovered the inefficacy of the government Martin Macwan Ahmedabad  While driving down from Baspa village (about 15 km from Sami) to Radhanpur in Gujarat, I was taken back to the year 2000, when an… Continue Reading →

Assam – RTI leader Akhil Gogoi arrested on sedition charges, activists demand immediate release

He is believed to have said that people from the state would take up arms if Hindu migrants from Bangladesh were ‘forced upon Assam’. IANS The Assam Police arrested anti-corruption campaigner and Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti leader Akhil Gogoi on… Continue Reading →

Odisha pollution board asks Vedanta to close 5 power units

g conglomerate Vedanta today said the State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Odisha, has directed it to temporarily close five units of its power plants which may marginally have an impact on the cost of production of aluminium. The SPCB has… Continue Reading →

Government of India Starts Drowning Narmada Valley to celebrate Modi’s Birthday!

  ACTION  ALERT   Life of more than 40000 families in danger!   – Water Level rises to 128.50 meters, Water enters into Rajghat, Nisarpur and other villages. – Villagers determined, will not vacate house, ready to get drowned. – People… Continue Reading →

From Aadhaar To Privacy Right: The Spin-off of The #Aadhaar Controversy

by S G Vombatkere — The word “private” has the meanings: (1) belonging to a particular person (his/her own body or his/her own property), (2) not sharing thoughts or feelings with others, and (3) not connected with a person’s work or official… Continue Reading →

Deporting Rohingya refugees would run counter to India’s obligations under domestic and international law

Suhrith Parthasarathy Over the past month, from Cox’s Bazar, in the south-east of Bangladesh, smoke can be seen billowing into the grey sky across the country’s border. Villages, home to the Rohingya community, in the fractious state of Rakhine in… Continue Reading →

India – Sagging spirit of Prime Minister Modi ’s model village scheme

Has the Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana, aimed at all-round development of three villages chosen by each Member of Parliament, made any significant impact on the ground? Sanjiv Phansalkar Parliamentarians adopting villages in their constituencies for holistic development is yet to… Continue Reading →

‘Karwan-e-Mohabbat’ members sit on dharna where Pehlu Khan was lynched , despite threats

Karwan-e-Mohabbat: When love was threatened with sticks and stones HARSH MANDER The tenth day of the Karwan was a wrenching engagement with families in Nuh district in Mewat. In the course of an intensive day, we met eleven bereaved and… Continue Reading →

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