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Delhi – A pharmacy for free medicines at AIIMS #healthcare

  Doctors have been told to prescribe only generic medicines Pending for nearly two years, AIIMS mission to provide free of cost generic medicines to its patients visiting the OPD may finally see the light of the day when such… Continue Reading →

#Sec377 stays in India as SC refuses to review verdict on gay sex #WTFnews

India Today Online  New Delhi, January 28, 2014 | UPDATED 18:47 IST Sec 377 stays: SC refuses to review verdict on gay sexThe Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to review its verdict declaring gay sex an offence punishable up to life imprisonment. The apex… Continue Reading →

Gurjars in Ajmer threaten to strip Dalit girl #Vaw #WTFnews

HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times  Ajmer, January 28, 2014  A few members of the Gurjar community have threatened to strip a 13-year-old Dalit girl living in the Ajmer district of Rajasthan, if she does not withdraw a molestation case. The Dalit girl’s… Continue Reading →

#India – Army man sexually assaults 14-month-old baby in Bangalore #WTFnews

Army man assaults 14-month-old baby in Bangalore Pratiba Raman  Bangalore, January 28, 2014 | UPDATED 14:23 IST A 14-month-old baby was allegedly sexually assaulted by an Army personnel working in Parachute Regiment Centre, JC Nagar, Bangalore. The accused, Dharamveer Singh, has now been taken… Continue Reading →

Record Rs 6cr payout for Otis lift accident in Delhi

Rebecca Samervel,TNN | Jan 28, 2014, Last week the national commission had directed OTIS, RAW and Military Engineering Services (MES) to pay the compensation to the family of Vipin Handa (46), Director with the Research & Analysis Wing (RAW) who was crushed to death after… Continue Reading →

#India – Perils of Reporting in conflict prone area – #Chhattisgarh

Whose journalism is it anyway?   SUVOJIT BAGCHI The HinduBLURRED LINE: The financial survival of a journalist in rural India, especially in Bastar, depends directly on outside interests as his/her own newspaper or news channel rarely pays a fixed salary…. Continue Reading →

#India – Woman commits suicide after obscene messages on Facebook #socialmedia

mangaloretoday.com Kochi, Jan 27: Unable to bear further humiliation, a 27-year-old married woman against whom obscene messages had been posted on Facebook ended her life by hanging at nearby Cheranallore, police said.   The incident occurred last night in the… Continue Reading →

A Racist Turn in India

JAN. 24, 2014 Launch media viewer African students demonstrated against discrimination at a protest in New Delhi last June. Deepak Malik/Demotix via Corbis Contributing Op-Ed Writer By NILANJANA S. ROY NEW DELHI — The Africans — Nigerians, Ghanaians, Ugandans — began leaving… Continue Reading →

For Muzaffarnagar Muslims, ‘it feels like Partition’

Harinder Baweja, Hindustan Times   January 25, 2014 Wakilludin Siddiqui, in his early 70s, remembers the day well. How can he forget September 8, 2013? That’s the day he finally understood what might have happened in 1947 during the Partition. A… Continue Reading →

Redeeming the Supreme Court #Sec377 #Deathpenalty

The Supreme Court has taken the position that it cannot be expected to abandon its role of being the guardian of the fundamental rights of all persons within the territory of India In a span of about 45 days, the… Continue Reading →

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