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Indian court finds Gujarat rioters guilty of killings

BBC  News- 9th April A court in India has found 23 people guilty of killing Muslims in religious riots in Gujarat state 10 years ago. Twenty-three other defendants were acquitted and one other died during the trial. Most of the… Continue Reading →

Christy Friedgram Industries (CFI), involved in ICDS SCAM

Ex-staff spill the beans on Christy’s cheat code Nandini Chandrashekar, Bangalore, Apr 5, 2012, DHNS : Christy Friedgram Industries (CFI), the company under investigation by the Lokayukta police for fraudulent practices in the supply of supplementary nutritional food to anganwadis… Continue Reading →

Immediate Release–Denial of SIT report to Complainant Smt Zakia Jafri Makes a Sham of Fair Hearing and Due Process

March 15, 2012 Press Release Following the submissions of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) Report and all documents on he complaint dated 8.6.2006. Advocates for Smt. Zakia Ahsan Jafri argued that denial her a copy of the Report/Chargesheet and all… Continue Reading →

Corporate Abuse Abroad, a Path to Justice Here

By LINCOLN CAPLAN, Published: March 3, 2012 , NYTIMES Should foreigners be allowed to use American courts to sue foreign corporations for human rights atrocities committed abroad?  Charles Wiwa in Chicago last month. He is one of the Nigerians trying… Continue Reading →

No to War on Iran ! Don’t make Delhi Blasts an Excuse !

  NO TO WAR ON IRAN ! DON’T MAKE DELHI BLASTS AN EXCUSE !! The US–Israel machinations in the Middle-East are taking a dangerous turn. The hypocrisy of calling American and Israeli nuclear weapons “responsible” and arm-twisting on Iran’s unproven… Continue Reading →

Do we Need a Diagnostic Manual for Mental Illness ?

The Guardian Richard Bentall and Nick Craddock discuss the controversial revisions to the US Diagnostic and Statistical Manual ‘Who will benefit from the proposed revision?’ The way that we think and talk about psychiatric illness has implications for all of… Continue Reading →

Silent State: The Campaign Against Whistleblowers in Washington

By Peter Van Buren February 11, 2012 On January 23rd, the Obama administration charged former CIA officer John Kiriakou under the Espionage Act for disclosing classified information to journalists about the waterboarding of al-Qaeda suspects. His is just the latest… Continue Reading →

Letters to God, letters to Supreme (Court) Judges

By – Umang Kumar It will be fair to assume that we all remember writing – or thinking of writing – a letter to God at some point in our lives, typically when quite young. Those were letters of various… Continue Reading →

Did You Know-Epidemic of Rape in U.S. Military

    Much of what we  choose to promote on our website is here to help you, our readers, become better informed and educated.  By doing so, we hope to raise the level of conversation and awareness around issues of… Continue Reading →

A Victory for the Internet: SOPA Act Dropped After Mass Protest

  The blockage last week of SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act of 2012, is a tentative victory not only for net neutrality and changing definitions of intellectual property, but also an impressive display of new online organizing. SOPA is… Continue Reading →

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