Month May 2018
Rajeev Dhavan So, Congress finally withdrew the Supreme Court petition challenging Rajya Sabha Chairman Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu’s rejection of an impeachment motion against Chief Justice Dipak Misra on Tuesday. Now comes the critical issue that will test the independence… Continue Reading →
Kundan Pandey The IFC-funded power project is destroying livelihood of fishermen in Gujarat, but the funding agency is hiding behind an immunity law Fishermen fear losing their livelihood due to depleting fish stocks. Credit: Nevil Zaveri / Flickr An… Continue Reading →
A visibility campaign by Nazariya, a grassroots LGBT-straight NEW DELHI: Connaught Place was recently host to “Rainbows for Humanity”, a visibility campaign organized by Nazariya, an alliance formed by youth belonging to both the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender+ (LGBT+) and… Continue Reading →
On, April 25, 2018, Chicago – , stockholders in DowDuPont cast their final votes on three shareholder resolutions[1] addressing the company’s continuing liability for the Bhopal chemical disaster. The resolutions describe increasing shareholder concern that management is mishandling the ongoing Bhopal controversy… Continue Reading →
Prepared in four days, report concluded “no illegal mining” was taking place along Tamil Nadu‘s coast. By Sandhya Ravishankar A joint-inspection team from the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests and various departments of Tamil Nadu, including the mining… Continue Reading →
Shweta Sengar Prime Minister Narendra Modi retweeted a sketch of himself drawn by a cartoonist. The artwork was inspired by Modi’s rally in Mangaluru, ahead of the state assembly elections in Karnataka. “Lovely gesture Kshitij. Thank you. You are an… Continue Reading →
VAKASHA SACHDEV 31 crores. 38 crores. 32 crores. These are the number of people who have ‘voluntarily’ linked their voter ID with Aadhaar, depending on whether you believe the UIDAI or Chief Election Commissioner OP Rawat (on 23 January… Continue Reading →
MONAZITE: THE ENEMY IS WITHIN A Citizens’ Enquiry Report into the Epidemic of Chronic Kidney Disease around IREL Monazite Plant in Ganjam District, Odisha In 2017, reports appeared in local and national media on the outbreak of chronic kidney disease… Continue Reading →
Key institutions in India such as the judiciary, security agencies and EC have not been able to ‘withstand’ government pressure tactics. ASHOK SWAIN In a recently published book, How Democracies Die, two Harvard professors, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt with their rich understanding… Continue Reading →
Interview with Sudanese Noura facing death sentence for her defending Herself against the rape of her husband who was forced to marry him .. “I Will Be Executed Before Fulfilling My Dreams” Interview with Noura Hussein, marital rape survivors… Continue Reading →