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#India has 477 people on death row- shocker ? #deathpenalty

Dec13, BBC India allows the death penalty for the ‘rarest of rare’ crimes There are 477 convicts on death row in India, the government says. The information was revealed in the Rajya Sabha [the upper house of the parliament] in… Continue Reading →

#Mumbai-Women cops were molested, admits R R Patil #Vaw

By Sharad Vyas, TNN | Dec 12, 2012, 02.22 AM IST NAGPUR: Maharashtra home minister RR Patil has for the first time admitted that womenconstables were molested during the violence that broke out at Azad Maidan on August 11. Patil rubbished claims that some… Continue Reading →

#India-Never said Gujarat safer than Maharashtra: Father of girl arrested for Facebook post

Edited by Amit Chaturvedi | Updated: December 11, 2012 , NDTV Nagpur: Farukh Dhada, father of Shaheen Dhada, the girl who was arrested last month by over her Facebook post, has spoken out against what he says is Gujarat Chief Minister… Continue Reading →

#India-For a moratorium on death sentence

V. VENKATESAN, Dec 10, The Hindu The Hindu There is a need to identify cases in which the courts might have erred in applying the Bachan Singh principle that limits the imposition of the death penalty The Supreme Court’s five-judge… Continue Reading →

On The Death Of Bal Thackeray And The Grief Of Athavale

By Dr Anand Teltumbde 05 December, 2012 Countercurrents.org Ramdas Athawale, who had left all the dealers of Dalit interests in Maharashtra far behind when he managed to sublimate himself straight from a dingy room in the Siddharth Vihar in Wadala… Continue Reading →

Irrigation scam 2.0 ? Threat to forest land in Maharashtra

Snehal Rebello, Hindustan Times Sawantwadi (Sindhudurg), December 03, 2012  More than 150 hectares of pristine forest in Sawantwadi, 500km south of Mumbai on the Maharashtra–Goa border, could be submerged along with homes, temples and sacred groves for an irrigation project… Continue Reading →

Demand for SIT probe into Centre’s child nutrition scheme

Down to Earth Author(s): Richard Mahapatra Date: Dec 4, 2012 Supreme Court commissioners report multi-crore scam involving private contractors and bureaucrats in food distribution under Integrated Child Development Scheme Richard Mahapatra Two commissioners of the Supreme Court in the right to food… Continue Reading →

Aadhaar-NPR duplication: A pain, and expensive too

Aloke Tikku, Hindustan Times New Delhi, November 30, 2012 Not only will nearly 600 million people have to queue up twice to enroll for the Aadhaar number and the National Population Register (NPR), they will also have to foot the… Continue Reading →

Rajasthan- In Kotkasim, sarpanches want ‘ DIRECT CASH TRANSFERS “scheme scrapped

Cong hopes to fill poll bank with cash schemeParty to focus on big-ticket states, including Rajasthan Diptosh Majumdar New Delhi, Dec2,2012, DNA   There is a game-plan within a game-plan. As meetings are held daily in the suddenly hyperactive Prime… Continue Reading →

Married off at 11, Maharashtran girl wins battle for education #Vaw #childmarriage

By Ranjana Diggikar, TNN | Dec 1, 2012, MORE Prevention of Child Marriage Act|Mukundwadi police station|Cidco MIDC police|Child Welfare Committee An 11-year-old girl from a small village in Aurangabad district walked into the Mukundwadi police station a couple of days… Continue Reading →

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