PARIS: India on Thursday assured France of its commitment to the Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project in the backdrop of protests being carried out in that area against the atomic plant. External affairs minister Salman Khurshid, who held bilateral talks with his French counterpart Laurent… Continue Reading →
Press Information Bureau English Releases 28-Dec-2012 The Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment is entrusted with the empowerment of the disadvantaged and marginalized sections of the society. The target groups of the Ministry are: (i) scheduled Castes,… Continue Reading →
By Amrita Nandy | Jan 7, 2013, 1 Feminists have long tried to build an understanding that desexualises rape — in law and everyday life, says Nivedita Menon. With violence against Indian women on the rise, the debate over feminist politics and its relevance… Continue Reading →
Image source: The Hindu “This is about you and me”: RJ Balaji on Men RJ Balaji, a radio jockey with the 92.7 BIG FM station in Chennai, has podcast his thoughts on men’s roles in the home and how strong beliefs in… Continue Reading →
ALOK DESHPANDE, The Hindu, MUMBAI, January 3, 2013 Thousands of villagers from around the proposed Jaitapur Nuclear Power Plant (JNPP) site in Maharashtra’s Ratnagiri district on Wednesday launched a ‘jail bharo’ agitation demanding scrapping of the 9,900 MW plant. The agitators… Continue Reading →
By Ramaninder K Bhatia, The Times of India, 1 January 2013 VADODARA: Vadodara police’s order of banning tuition classes before 7am and after 9pm in the city after the New Delhi gang rape, has evoked harsh criticism from women across… Continue Reading →
TNN | Dec 31, 2012, 06.18 AM IST KOLKATA: Fifty-two-year-old Mahashin Ali wakes up with a start every 15 minutes in his ICU cubicle at RG Kar Medical College Hospital. Eyes wide open in horror and gasping for breath, he asks for his wife, who… Continue Reading →
Collectives need not always be celebrated; lynch mobs are collectives too, and there was ample evidence of this lynch mob mentality on display in the past few days: baying for blood, here and now. Revenge cannot be an alternative to… Continue Reading →
लो ख़त्म हुई आपाधापी, लो बंद हुई मारामारी लो जीत गई सत्ता फिर से, लो हार गई फिर लाचारी कल सात समंदर पार कहीं इक आह उठी थी दर्द भरी तब से जनता है ख़फ़ा-ख़फ़ा, तब से सत्ता है डरी-डरी… Continue Reading →
30SundayDec 2012 Posted by Sankarshan Thakur in New Delhi, Telegraph Calcutta Anna, Civil Society,Corruption,Government, Jantar Mantar, Manmohan Singh, Police, Protest,Raisina Hill, Rape, Sonia Gandhi, UPA, Urban Sankarshan Thakur New Delhi, Dec. 29: Well before the candles were lit this evening, the one at the centre of it all had been blown. Jantar Mantar… Continue Reading →
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