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Sajjan Kumar acquitted in one of three 1984 anti-Sikh riots cases #WTFnews

Protests erupt inside & outside court, shoe flung at the judge 30 Apr 2013, , AGENCIES Unhappy with acquittal of Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in an anti-Sikh riots case, a man hurled a shoe at the judge as protests erupted inside… Continue Reading →

Australia- Refugee Children to be moved to detention centres

Date May 1, 2013 Mark Kenny, SMH Chief political correspondent   Darwin’s Wickham Point centre for families. Photo: Glenn Campbell Children will again be held in mainland detention centres, with authorities setting aside a compound at Darwin’s Wickham Point centre for… Continue Reading →

#India – #Aadhaar private ownership of UID data – Part II

  USHA RAMANATHAN | 30/04/2013 , Moneylife.com   Those enrolling on the UID database have not been informed that their data is to yield profit for the UIDAI, Rs288.15 crore a year and its only investor, the government, does not even own the data…. Continue Reading →

#India – Dams and the Doomed… min(e)d games of the state

  April 29, 2013  by Subrat Kumar Sahu ‘We all are living in a gang war… [in which] the state is just another gang!’  – Arundhati Roy In the wee hour 29 April 2013, at least 10 platoons of police… Continue Reading →

#India – ‘Development at Gunpoint’ in Odisha – Ground Report #Video

    Apr 30, 2013 The vegetable garden of Odisha is going to be submerged and more than 50 villages displaced; and the name of the game is ‘Development at Gunpoint’ — meaning ‘peaceful industrialization’ as the chief minister claims!… Continue Reading →

Use of #Aadhaar card in Voting in Karnataka Assembly Elections #UID

      MOST URGENT By E-mail including to the media Maj Gen S.G.Vombatkere (Retd)                                                  … Continue Reading →

#India – The Land Bill is tainted by a colonial hangover

Instead of focussing on the industry, the Centre should uphold the citizens’ rights Madhuresh Kumar 4-05-2013, Issue 18More by the author > Left in the lurch The revised Bill is still vague on rehabilitation and resettlement, Photo: AP Hectic parleys with political parties… Continue Reading →

Madars HC – Lankan woman seeks Rs 20 lakh for illegal detention #Vaw

TNN Apr 29, 2013, 05.38AM IST CHENNAI: A Sri Lankan Tamil woman, claiming that her Chennai-based husband had illegally admitted her in a private asylum at Urappakkam here and kept her confined there for 20 months, moved the Madras high court… Continue Reading →

#India – Mentally ill held captive in asylum without licence #WTFnews

Christin Mathew Philip & Pratiksha Ramkumar, TNN Apr 29, 2013, CHENNAI: Hidden behind 15ft-high compound walls is an 80-bed privately run home for the mentally ill in Urapakkam, 50km from the city. The home, Oxford Charitable Trust, has around 100 patients,… Continue Reading →

We Don’t Need Genetically Engineered Bananas For Iron Deficiency

By Vandana Shiva   Saturday, April 27, 2013 The latest insanity from the genetic engineers is to push GMO bananas on India for reducing iron deficiency in Indian women. Nature has given us a cornucopia of biodiversity, rich in nutrients. Malnutrition… Continue Reading →

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