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India signing nuclear test ban treaty to kick-start talks with Japan?

TOKYO/ NEW DELHI: It may not be necessary for India to sign Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty(CTBT) for resumption of talks with Japan for peaceful use of nuclear energy but it will certainly help if any such bilateral agreement can weave in… Continue Reading →

Amnesty asks India to commute Guru’s death sentence #deathpenalty

  London, December 14 (KMS: The human rights watchdog, Amnesty International has expressed concern over the fate of mercy petitions including that of a Kashmir youth, Afzal Guru whose sentence, according to the Amnesty, by a special court under the… Continue Reading →

#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 →

EC directs government to defer implementation of Direct Cash Transfer Scheme in Gujarat & HP

Dec4. 2012, ET NEW DELHI: The Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday expressed dissatisfaction with the government on the announcement timing of Direct Cash Transfer Scheme (DCT). EC directed the government to defer the implementation of the scheme in four districts of Gujarat and two… Continue Reading →

#India-First commutation of death sentence by President Pranab Mukherji #goodnews

  NEW DELHI, December 3, 2012   V. Venkatesan      Atbir, lodged in Tihar Jail, New Delhi, is the first death-row convict whose sentence has been commuted by President Pranab Mukherjee. Mr. Mukherjee passed the order on November 15. Atbir… Continue Reading →

#India-Displaced farmers watch the rise of Naya Raipur

Naya Raipur, October 30, 2012 Suvojit Bagchi, The Hindu The Jungle Safari at Naya Raipur which was inaugurated by Chief Minister Raman Singh on Oct. 19, 2012. Photo: Suvojit Bagchi Chaitram Yadav, a farmer who got less compensation for his irrigated… Continue Reading →

#India-I reject #censorship: Dr Shashi Tharoor @ Pitch #FOE #FOS

Shashi Tharoor, Union Minister & Member of Indian Parliament Dr Shashi Tharoor, Minister of State, Ministry of Human Resource Development & Member of Indian Parliament, delivered the Keynote Address, “Role of Digital & Social Media in Connecting with Young India” at… Continue Reading →

Every third senior citizen in India abused, mainly by son #elderlyday #Indiashame

   India no country for Elderly Kounteya Sinha, TNN Sep 29, 2012, 04.45AM IST (More than half of the abused…) NEW DELHI: Indian sons, and their wives, aren’t treating their aged parents well. A study on abuse of India’s elderly, conducted… Continue Reading →

Nine death penalties wrongly imposed: Ex-judges to President

Manoj Mitta, TNN | A   The miscarriage of justice has prompted 14 retired judges of SC and HCs across the country to appeal to President to turn 9 death penalties into life sentence. NEW DELHI: They are on death… Continue Reading →

Shall we film the President ? #FOE #Censorship

  Why doesn’t India make prez movies? Priyanka Dasgupta, TNN (Still from Politics of Love ) India doesn’t have a Presidential form of government. Censor Board of Film Certification will not clear a film about our President that’s even remotely… Continue Reading →

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