By Prakhar Jain Education in ruins The residential school in Chintagupha, Sukma WITH THE Right to Education Act (RTE) completing two years, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal may feel smug about the decline in dropout rates. But close to 40,000 children… Continue Reading →
Today, 23rd March, day of hanging of Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukdev were hanged in jail by the British, is being observed by a day-long hunger strike by over 200 `political prisoners‘ in various jails in Maharashtra, including the Angela… Continue Reading →
Javed Iqbal | Monday, March 19, 2012, DNA Torture has long been employed by well-meaning, even reasonable people armed with the sincere belief that they are preserving civilisation as they know it. Aristotle favoured the use of torture in extracting… Continue Reading →
MANGALORE – Arrest of a student pursuing Post Graduation from Mangalore University on the charges of Naxal link, has created a row between civil society and administration in Dakshina Kannada district. Vittala, a student of Mass Communication and Journalism, along… Continue Reading →
Arun ferreira , who was inside prison for more than four years talks about his experience of torture in the police custody and police lock ups in . He speaks our that there is difference of torture in police custody… Continue Reading →
To, The Honourable Justice KG Balakrishnan Chairperson National Human Rights Commission Faridkot House, Copernicus Marg New Delhi – 110 001 7th March, 2012 Dear Justice Balakrishnan, Subject: Please ensure safety of Advoate Rekha Parganiha in police custody in Bhilai, Chhattisgarh… Continue Reading →
Arun Ferriera who spent four years in prison shares his experinces of torture and struggle for human rights inside prison. He was speaking at the Human Rights Education Seminar, at St Pius College, organised by the South Asian Human righst education… Continue Reading →
13 February 2012 -| By Gayatri Parameswaran It might be the world’s largest democracy but India is struggling to defend its democratic status in the ‘red corridor’ – areas troubled by Naxalite or Maoist insurgency. Expectedly,… Continue Reading →
India’s forest cover decreased by 367 square kilometers between 2007 and 2009, and it was primarily tribal and hilly regions that were to blame, according to the biennial forest survey released last week by the Ministry of Environment and Forest. The report… Continue Reading →
Written by: Dr. Bibhu Prasad Routray February 12, 2012 The recent assessment by author Jan Myrdal that the Left-Wing extremist (Naxalite) movement in India is headed nowhere, is bound to come as a shot-in-the-arm for the Indian state. Coming from… Continue Reading →
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