The BBC;s Geeta Pandey in Delhi remembers some of the prominent rape cases which made the headlines when they happened, but have now faded from the public memory. There have been widespread protests in India since the 16 December… Continue Reading →
Published: Friday, Jan 4, 2013, 15:04 IST Place: New Delhi | Agency: PTI The Supreme Court has finally agreed to appoint a commission to inquire into encounter killings in Manipur.The commission comprising former apex court judge Santosh Hegde, former CEC… Continue Reading →
Aneesha Mathur : New Delhi, Sat Jan 05 2013, 02:39 hrs At a time when there’s a chorus for showing no leniency to the juvenile among the six arrested for the gangrape of the 23-year-old woman who later died in a… Continue Reading →
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: About 55,000 tourists visit Liechtenstein every year. This blog was viewed about 360,000 times in 2012. If it were Liechtenstein, it would take about… Continue Reading →
Friday, January 4, 2013 There was a recent gathering at Jantar Mantar to protest against the gruesome sexual violence committed on Soni Sori while in custody in Chhattisgarh under the supervision of Ankit Garg. Superintendent of Police, Dantewada. Ankit Garg… Continue Reading →
INDIA, Posted on Jan 04, 2013 CNN-IBN New Delhi: Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Friday met Director Generals of Police and Home Secretaries from all the states over providing more security to women. Several aspects of crimes against women… Continue Reading →
source-http://kractivist.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/republic-day-gallantry-award-to-alleged-torturer-of-soni-sori/ Last republic day was black so is this and lets boycott all republic days !! By N. Jayaram 03 January, 2012 Countercurrents.org Many Indians have declared via social networking sites that they intend boycotting this year’s Republic Day (January… Continue Reading →
Mumbai, the acclaimed financial capital of the country has 54 per cent of its population i.e more than 60 lakh people living in slums occupying only 6 % of the city’s land, as such; the city has been a site… Continue Reading →
Published: January 1, 2013 , NY times When the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, it said there were two social purposes for imposing capital punishment for the most egregious crimes: deterrence and retribution. In recent months, these justifications for… 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 →
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