Authorities in Chhattisgarh must immediately release seven members of a civil society fact-finding team who were arrested while travelling from Telangana to investigate alleged extrajudicial executions, or fake encounters in Chhattisgarh, Amnesty International India said today. Chhattisgarh police arrested… Continue Reading →
Champa Vaghela, who discontinued studies after class 12, and a neighbour carry waste from her house in Vejalpur to be dumped in the open. As Swachch Bharat campaign picks up momentum and the Gujarat government tom-toms the record number of… Continue Reading →
G. Sampath The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010, is nothing more than a tool to keep ‘errant’ civil society organisations on a tight leash. An autonomous, self-regulatory agency for NGOs is the need of the hour In early November, the… Continue Reading →
IIMC faculty sacked for allegedly backing Dalit labourers, objecting to appointment of course director (DNA) FAREEHA IFTIKHAR | This is the second incident of its kind in a year at the IIMC. An academic associate at Indian Institute of Mass… Continue Reading →
Brinda Karat Illustration: Deepak Harichandan | Photo Credit: Deepak Harichandan On the tenth anniversary of the historic passage of the Forest Rights Act, tribal resistance to defend their rights is growing even as government after government tries to dilute… Continue Reading →
Even when godowns are full, people are starving to death, says Dr Binayak Sen. | Photo Credit: K.K. Najeeb Human rights violations are rampant in the country, says the social activist Social activist Binayak Sen has said that… Continue Reading →
–राम पुनियानी उच्चतम न्यायालय ने नवंबर 2016 में यह आदेश जारी किया कि सभी सिनेमा हॉलों में ‘‘मातृभूमि के प्रति प्रेम की खातिर’’ हर फिल्म शो के पहले राष्ट्रगान बजाया जाए। इस आदेश से व्यक्तिगत स्वतंत्रता और कानूनी बाध्यताओं के… Continue Reading →
Noam Chomsky at Occupy Boston. (photo: Andrew Rusk/Flickr) By Daily Mirror Noam Chomsky interviewed by Daily Mirror he world’s leading public intellectual, Prof. Noam Chomsky in an exclusive interview with Daily Mirror, spoke on many issues that have pervaded… Continue Reading →
The irony of reporting on a new law to protect Hindu girls, or naris as they say in Sindhi, from forced conversions is that it is virtually impossible to ask any of them how they feel about it…. Continue Reading →
by-Vidyut POSTED BY: VIDYUT Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley, said something interesting when he addressed the Digi-Dhan mela today. He said that Bill Gates told him that more than 100 Cr have mobile phones, 109 Cr have Aadhar cards, digital economy… Continue Reading →
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