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#India -No jeans, mobile phones for Brahmin girls: BJP MP #Vaw #moralpolicing #WTFnews

We are under attack from Western culture, our culture doesn’t teach us to wear jeans,’ BJP MP Raghunanandan Sharma tells Rediff.com‘s A Ganesh Nadar. Bharatiya Janata Party MP Raghunandan Sharma has come up with the following suggestions to check crimes against… Continue Reading →

#India – Does law do justice to the poor & hapless?

June 9, 2013, The Hindu MATTHEW ADUKANIL The powerful are presumed innocent until proved guilty but the indigent citizen under arrest is considered guilty until he is proved innocent Learned judges toast the majesty of the law. Politicians swear by… Continue Reading →

Afghan MPs block divisive women’s rights law #WTFnews

Legislation was approved by President Karzai in 2009, but stalled by conservative MPs who deemed it un-Islamic. Last Modified: 18 May 2013 14:27 President Hamid Karzai approved the law by decree in 2009, but it needs parliamentary approval [Reuters] Afghanistan’s parliament… 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 →

Landmark win for dalits as UK bans caste bias

Kounteya Sinha, TNN Apr 26, 2013, (Jo Swinson, the equalities…) LONDON: Dalits in the United Kingdom have recorded a landmark victory after the British parliament finally agreed to outlaw caste discrimination. In a major U-turn, the House of Commons, which had earlier trashed… Continue Reading →

Why I-T returns of Pawar, Jindal and Gandhi are exempted from #RT ?

      VINITA DESHMUKH , Moneylife.com| 24/04/2013    Income Tax authorities have denied information about I-T returns of 22 MPs, including Sharad Pawar, Naveen Jindal, Maneka Gandhi, Sachin Pilot, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Navjot Singh Sidhu, Beni Prasad Verma, Ajit Singh and Lalu Prasad… Continue Reading →

Information that cannot be denied to Parliament cannot be denied to you and me… but does it happen? #RTI

  VINITA DESHMUKH | 31/01/2013 12:15 PM |  , Moneylife.com Does this provision in Section 8 wherein, despite exemptions you have the right to information if it is of larger public interest being correctly interpreted by Courts? A study thinks otherwise Notwithstanding Section 8… Continue Reading →

#India -Can’t disqualify MPs, MLAs facing rape cases: Supreme Court #Vaw

PTI, The Hindu The HinduThe apex court, which was hearing two PILs filed after the December 16 gang-rape incident, said it can only give notice to the government on limited issues as some of the prayers made in the petitions… Continue Reading →

Dear Abhijit babu: The Society of Painted and Dented Ladies responds

by Rajyasree Sen Dec 27, 2012, First Post Dear Shri Abhijit Mukherjee, I am writing to you in my capacity of  General Secretary of the Society of Painted and Dented Ladies of India. First of all, I would like to state that… Continue Reading →

#India -Holding democracy to a whip #FDI

Garga Chatterjee | Agency: DNA | Sunday, December 9, 2012   In the FDI debate that happened in the Lok Sabha, a particularly painful moment saw ‘Netaji’ Mulayam Singh Yadav take the name of Ram Manohar Lohia. He talked about Lohia… Continue Reading →

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