May 4, 2014, Javed Iqbal A Marxist Coordination Committee party office in Wasseypur, Dhanbad of Jharkhand. There are 17 independent candidates and 15 party-affiliated candidates in the Dhanbad-Bokaro Lok Sabha seat in Jhakrhand, which went to the polls on… Continue Reading →
Outsiders in their own land 1 Author(s): Soma Basu @sbasu_in May 15, 2014 | Gujarat government eyes limestone underneath land cultivated by Sikh farmers, curbs their ownership rights Nirmal Singh, a farmer in Panandhro village, shows limestone in his farmland (Photo: Soma… Continue Reading →
Reform Excessively Harsh Criminal Sentences May 6, 2014 (Washington, DC) – Far too many US laws violate basic principles of justice by requiring disproportionately severe punishment, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The 36-page report, “Nation Behind… Continue Reading →
Organises plant occupations via messenger services like WhatsApp as lockouts fall in cat-and-mouse game Aman Sethi | <news:geo_locations>Pathredi May 5, 2014 Last Updated at 00:56 IST The negotiating power of workers, Mahesh Kumar Sharma explains under a tent pitched in an open field… Continue Reading →
India elections: Narendra Modi victory would be ‘lightning rod for militants’ Victory for Hindu nationalist politician could lead to increased recruitment to extremist Islamic organisations, experts fear Jason Burke in Srinagar theguardian.com, Tuesday 6 May 2014 11.06 EDT Kashmiri Muslims… Continue Reading →
Education for the Voiceless: Posted: 05/02/2014 Brianna Sacks MUMBAI, INDIA– The bell rings, and nearly 700 Muslim students pour fromAnjuman-I-Islam school’s worn, stone buildings onto a dusty quad. Their plain, blue-and-white, government-sponsored uniforms mask the reality that 97 percent of these secondary… Continue Reading →
Venomous communal election rhetoric, adding fuel to long-simmering ethnic and communal fires, has taken a terrible toll in Assam. Over 30 people, most of them Muslim women and children, were massacred in Assam’s Bodoland Territorial Area District (BTAD). The BTAD… Continue Reading →
Mainstream media never tires of telling us that bygones should be bygones. That 2002 cannot be repeated again. That Mr. Narendra Modi has turned a new leaf. That Indian democracy perforce transforms all claimants to power into secularists. The… Continue Reading →
Amit Ahuja Susan L. Ostermann The Hindu Muzzled: Institutions were trampled over by the will of a few powerful individuals during the Emergency, the pogroms against Sikhs in Delhi in 1984 and against Muslims in Gujarat in 2002. Picture shows organisations… Continue Reading →
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) Idinthakarai 627 104 Tirunelveli District Press Release May 6, 2014 A few leaders of the PMANE, S. P. Udayakumar, M. P. Jesuraj, Peter Milton and Antony Kebiston met with the opposition leader of Kerala, Mr…. Continue Reading →
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