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#India – Displacement without rehabilitation

  KARWAR, May 1, 2013 Govind D. Belgaumkar, The Hindu A farmer whiles away his time in Todur, a rehabilitation colony, in the absence of land to till in Uttara Kannada district. Photo: Govind D.Belgaumkar Livelihood issues are at stake in… Continue Reading →

Gujarat – Contours of a conspiracy

Frontline May, 2013 A protest petition filed by Zakia Jafri weaves together evidence, from contemporaneous phone and police control room records, pointing to the role of the powers that be in manipulating the Godhra incident to plan the violence against… Continue Reading →

Mahendra Nath Das’s mercy plea: Why SC commuted his death sentence

Dhananjay Mahapatra, TNN | May 3, 2013, Former President APJ Abdul Kalam had in 2005 favoured commutation of Mahendra Nath Das’s death penalty to life term.  t NEW DELHI: Revealing the casual manner in which mercy petitions are dealt with, theSupreme Court found… Continue Reading →

SC slams Centre for giving ‘Z’ security to Ambani and said ” A 5yr old a five-year-old would not have been raped if there was security in Delhi

PTI : New Delhi, Wed May 01 2013, 2 Centre‘s decision to provide ‘Z’ category security to the richest Indian Mukesh Ambani today drew flak from the Supreme Court which asked why such persons are given security cover by the government… Continue Reading →

PressRelease- Joint Statement by Indians and Pakistanis on the Sad Demise of Sarabjit Singh

We the citizens of India and Pakistan are pained by the sad demise of Mr. Sarabjit Singh as a result of a dastardly attack on him in the Kot Lakhpat jail in Lahore, Pakistan by some inmates on 26th April 2013…. Continue Reading →

Half of India’s dalit population lives in 4 states- UP, West Bengal, Bihar and TN

  B Sivakumar, TNN | May 2, 2013, 06.14 AM IST CHENNAI: Four states account for nearly half of the country’s dalit population, reveals the 2011 census. Uttar Pradesh stands first with 20.5% of the total scheduled caste (SC) population, followed by… Continue Reading →

#India- Do you know who’s afraid of the new land bill ? Maharashtra Government

Stop forceful land acquisition for Delhi-Mumbai industrial corridor project, say farmers of Raigad Author(s): Akshay Deshmane Issue Date: 2013-5-2 They want state to follow the proposed land acquisition Bill likely to be passed soon by Parliament The Land Acquisition (Rehabilitation… Continue Reading →

MPs panel raps ministry for clearing 33 drugs without trials

New Delhi | Sunday, 2013 6:06:00 PM IST Thirty-three new drugs were granted approval by the health ministry without clinical trials on Indian patients between January 2008 and October 2010, a parliamentary panel has found. It a report tabled in… Continue Reading →

Casteist remarks: Assistant professor booked

Tribune News Service Patiala, April 30 The police today booked an assistant professor of Rajindra Medical College for allegedly making cast-based remarks against an MBBS student. The FIR comes ten days after Raj Kumar Verka, vice chairman, National Commission for… Continue Reading →

Morning after’ pills legit for 15-year-olds in US #womenrights

TNN | May 2, 2013, WASHINGTON: The US government has lowered to 15 the age at which girls can buy the morning-after contraceptive pill without a prescription. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday announced to approve a contraceptive known as… Continue Reading →

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