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Corporates cashing in on mental-health diagnosis

By Adam McGibbon  Are we heading towards a mass-medicated society? Sriram Balla, under a CC License Are you a disruptive person? Are you occasionally reluctant to part with possessions? Is your child defiant, or prone to temper tantrums? Are you grieving from the… Continue Reading →

Public hearing on MP’s Chukta nuclear power project cancelled

Shashikant Trivedi  |  Bhopal  May 24, 2013 Led by Ramon Magsaysay award winner Dr Sandeep Pandey and others prominent activists of the state, locals of as many as 38 villages restricted Mandla district administration to organise a public hearing on controversial Chutka nuclear power project…. Continue Reading →

Rethinking Development In Pakistan

      By Q. Isa Daudpota   25 May, 2013 Countercurrents.org   Trickle-down economics invariably fails in poor countries. For long-lasting progress, development policies that are bottom-up, those that ‘put the last first’, often succeed. Ideas supportive of this… Continue Reading →

PRESS RELEASE – The Koodankulam Mystery : Russian Officials’ Anxiety

People’s Movemenmt Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) Idinthakarai 627 104 Tirunelveli District Mobile: 9842154073, 9865683735 Email: [email protected]                                                      For Immediate Release May 24, 2013 The Koodankulam Mystery : Russian Officials’ Anxiety The periodic interventions of the Russian diplomats in India in defense of… Continue Reading →

Activists Prepare to March Against Monsanto

By Rebekah Wilce, PR Watch 22 May 13     See Also: March Against Monsanto Planned for Over 30 Countries   n an advance that makes history, Vermont‘s House of Representatives passed a bill on May 10 requiring foods containing genetically modified organisms… Continue Reading →

Illegal GM cotton spreads across India

Author(s): Latha Jishnu Issue Date: 2013-5-22 In a replay of Bt cotton saga, Monsanto‘s Roundup Ready Flex is being grown in at least three states without clearance GM cotton has proved to be a grim experience for farmers as erratic… Continue Reading →

Phaneesh Murthy saga: Why insurers should refuse to cover serial offenders of sexual harassment #Womenrights

 SUCHETA DALAL | 23/05/2013 If you work in risky jobs or have a medical condition, you pay a higher premium. Some people are even denied insurance. Shouldn’t insurers refuse to cover serial offenders of sexual-harassment too? This may help women get a fairer treatment… Continue Reading →

Bangladeshi Police Attack Garment Workers’ Protest

By K. Ratnayake 21 May, 2013 WSWS.org Police fired rubber bullets on tens of thousands of protesting Bangladeshi garment workers in the Ashulia industrial belt near Dhaka yesterday, injuring at least fifty. Workers were protesting to demand higher wages and… Continue Reading →

#India – One woman doctor for entire district of Mewat #Believeitornot

Aditya Dev, TNN May 16, 2013, GURGAON: There is an acute shortage of doctors in government hospitals of Mewat. Surprisingly, the district with the worst maternal mortality rate and infant mortality rate, there is only one woman doctor available for the… Continue Reading →

Activists bristle as India cracks down on foreign funding of NGOs

By Rama Lakshmi, Monday, May 20, 7:14 AM E-mail the writer, WP NEW DELHI — Amid an intensifying crackdown on nongovernmental groups that receive foreign funding, Indian activists are accusing the government of stifling their right to dissent in the world’s largest democracy.India has tightened the rules… Continue Reading →

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