Roughly 16 land rights advocates have been killed each month from January through November. Mapuche Indian activists demand their indigenous rights and land for their communities in Santiago, Chile [Reuters] The battle over land and resources turned bloodier in the… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK/AP FILE-AP More journalists have been jailed this year by governments around the world than at any time in nearly three decades, primarily because of the crackdown in Turkey after a failed coup in July, the Committee to Protect… Continue Reading →
Priyanka Kakodkar Mumbai: 90% Leather And Garment Factories Shut An incomplete cream-and-gold sherwani lies forgotten on a bench. An incongruous sight in a dingy loft in Dharavi which was once packed cheek-by-jowl with tailors. Of the 15 who used to… Continue Reading →
Five davit students in EFLU – Munavath Sriramulu, Bathran Ravichandran, Mohan Dharavath, M Upender and N Satish – convicted of defamation on the basis of a case filed by Meenakshi Reddy – a Dean repeatedly accused of being brazenly casteist… Continue Reading →
Mumbai: Days after Nikhath Fathema resigned as member of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB), sources said more women members are considering to resign from the high-powered body of Indian Muslims due to differences on triple talaq. Triple… Continue Reading →
By ANUPAM SARAPH | The Jan Dhan deposit data between 9.11.2016 and 01.12.2016 in crores of rupees. Bank accounts opened with UID number are indistinguishable from ‘mule accounts’ controlled by third parties. In the aftermath of the Prime Minister’s call… Continue Reading →
Rajkumar Soni Malik/Catch News On 12 December, BJP National President Amit Shah was in Chhattisgarh on the occasion of 13th anniversary of Raman Singh government. But while he was praising the state government in the state capital Raipur, villagers in… Continue Reading →
in India — by P. Sainath — December 13, 2016 A farmer in Nagur holds up an extract of his loan account from the credit cooperative society; further interest of 2-4 per cent gets added at the level of the… Continue Reading →
Former IAS officer, E.A.S Sarma in this letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi asks whether the government operates on double-standards, and whether there are a separate set of rules for NDA ministers and for the common Indian citizen. Sarma specifically… Continue Reading →
By Nicola Smith In any other country, Hina Usmani would just be doing her day job but in Pakistan — as a woman accountant in a man-dominated field — she is at the forefront of changing an entire work culture…. Continue Reading →
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