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#India – A sound whistleblowers’ protection law is long awaited

The responsibility to protect Anjali Bhardwaj , Shekhar Singh : Mon May 06 2013, A sound whistleblowers’ protection law is long awaited. It languishes in Parliament at the system’s perilNandi Singh, a resident of a remote village in Assam, was brutally attacked with… Continue Reading →

#India – shocking child rape – time to re-examine exactly how we’re bringing up our youth #Vaw

Second sight Syeda Hameed | April 27, 2013, Times Crest   The shocking rape of a child in Delhi must force us to re-examine exactly how we’re bringing up our youth We are all numb with the events of the last five… Continue Reading →

MGNREGA inefficiently managed, finds CAG

Issue Date:  2013-4-23 Government spent Rs. 1,26,961 crore but hardly 30 per cent works are completed Exactly five years after the employment guarantee programme’s pan-India roll out, the programme seems to have lost favour with the rural poor. The Comptroller… Continue Reading →

Parallel hearings on khaki reforms after cop excesses #policereforms

Manoj Mitta, TNN | Apr 22, 2013, 12.45 AM IST   NEW DELHI: Even as the police reforms issue has been lying dormant before a bench headed by Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir, anotherSupreme Court bench, this one headed by Justice G… Continue Reading →

Far from Delhi- 4 year old Rape victim , battling for Life #Vaw

Four-year-old Seoni rape victim airlifted to Nagpur Manjari Mishra, TNN | Apr 21, 2013, JABALPUR: With her sexually brutalized four-year-old granddaughter Rani (name changed) battling death for 48 hours in ICU on Saturday afternoon, after having been raped on April 17 night by a… Continue Reading →

Delhi refuses to Learn – 13-yr-old gangraped by eight men in Delhi, 393 rape cases in first 3 months 2013

IANS  New Delhi, April 20, 2013  A  13-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped by eight men, four of whom were known to her, police said on Saturday. The incident comes even as the capital is witnessing outrage over the horrific rape… Continue Reading →

#India – Womb and Wolves #Vaw #Womenrights #medicalethics

By Swagata Yadavar, THE WEEK Story Dated: Monday, April 15, 2013 15:8 hrs IST Guddi devi, 27: She had sought treatment for a simple stomach ache. The doctor prescribed hysterectomy. Today, with all her vitality sapped, she feels it was… Continue Reading →

#India- Prime Minister approves expansion of Direct Benefits Transfers (DBT)

April 5, 2013 New Delhi, PIB 78 more districts, 3 more Pension Schemes under DBT  DBT will now cover 1/5th of the country   The Prime Minister held a meeting of the National Committee on DBT to review the rollout of the Direct Benefits… Continue Reading →

#India – MGNREGA activist gangraped, murdered in Bihar #Vaw #WTFnews

Author(s): Alok Gupta, downtoearth.org Date: Apr 3, 2013 Victim had angered influential landlord community of her village A 45-year-old activist, who had been protesting against irregularities in the implementation of the rural employment guarantee scheme, was gang raped near Mandai Khurd village… Continue Reading →

Maoists lose top leaders in group war

Jaideep Deogharia & Deeptiman Tiwary, TNN | Mar 29, 2013, RANCHI/NEW DELHI: At least ten Maoistsincluding some senior leaders of the CPI (Maoist) were killed in a pitched gun battle with rival faction, TritiyaPrastuti Committee (TPC), inJharkhand on Thursday. This is one of the rare instances… Continue Reading →

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