Visitors: 284The Copenhagen drama is over. Nothing came out of it. It was predicted the same by many expert and many intellectuals, activists, professional experts kept a distance from this proscenium. But what is that concerns the ordinary people of this nation? How does market and market values related with people at large and particularly […]
Visitors: 386Australia Australian National University (ANU) Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Chubb has congratulated the University’s new Chancellor Gareth Evans on being named winner of the international 2010 Freedom from Fear Medal. The international prize is awarded every two years by the Roosevelt Stichting in the Netherlands, a private foundation allied with the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt […]
Visitors: 373Australia Australian National University (ANU) Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Chubb has congratulated the University’s new Chancellor Gareth Evans on being named winner of the international 2010 Freedom from Fear Medal. The international prize is awarded every two years by the Roosevelt Stichting in the Netherlands, a private foundation allied with the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt […]
Visitors: 272Chhattisgarh After carefully reading, what Advocate Prashant Bhooshan said, we do have strong reservations to his publicly made statements, which are as under: · Inspite of condemning “Operation Green Hunt” which is decision of our elected governments, Sri Bhooshan should conduct a plebiscite in Bastar on this issue. Realities would come before him, whether […]
Visitors: 271Chhattisgarh After carefully reading, what Advocate Prashant Bhooshan said, we do have strong reservations to his publicly made statements, which are as under: · Inspite of condemning “Operation Green Hunt” which is decision of our elected governments, Sri Bhooshan should conduct a plebiscite in Bastar on this issue. Realities would come before him, whether […]
Visitors: 272West BengalName of the Victim(s): 1. Md. Tutan Shaikh aged about 20 years 2. Mr. Khalil Seikh aged about 24 years both are son of Md Sajahan Ali 3. Master Hasibul Seikh son of Mr. Rabban Seikh aged about 14 years, a wage labourer all are residing at Village-Sitanagar 20 no., Post – Sagarpara, […]
Visitors: 247West BengalName of the Victim(s): 1. Md. Tutan Shaikh aged about 20 years 2. Mr. Khalil Seikh aged about 24 years both are son of Md Sajahan Ali 3. Master Hasibul Seikh son of Mr. Rabban Seikh aged about 14 years, a wage labourer all are residing at Village-Sitanagar 20 no., Post – Sagarpara, […]
Visitors: 467Manipur Muslims who are also called Pangal in local terminology came to the Manipuri region in the late 16th or early 17th century. They are also called Meitei-Pangal which means indigenized and acculturated or simply Manipuri Muslims. They settled in this land earlier than many other communities. They have since remained part and parcel […]
Visitors: 452Manipur Muslims who are also called Pangal in local terminology came to the Manipuri region in the late 16th or early 17th century. They are also called Meitei-Pangal which means indigenized and acculturated or simply Manipuri Muslims. They settled in this land earlier than many other communities. They have since remained part and parcel […]
Visitors: 373Mexico Valentín Valdés Espinosa, co-founder of and journalist for the daily newspaper Zócalo de Saltillo, reportedly left the newspaper offices with two colleagues late on the night of 7 January 2010. In the centre of Saltillo, their car was intercepted by a group of men who forced Valdés and another, unnamed Zócalo reporter into […]
Visitors: 334Mexico Valentín Valdés Espinosa, co-founder of and journalist for the daily newspaper Zócalo de Saltillo, reportedly left the newspaper offices with two colleagues late on the night of 7 January 2010. In the centre of Saltillo, their car was intercepted by a group of men who forced Valdés and another, unnamed Zócalo reporter into […]
Visitors: 244It was a very interesting and passionate letter. But, I have few crucial questions and can I expect a transparent Multinational Corporate like Vedanta to give focused response. 1. At the outset, keeping in line with Copenhagen Climate change agenda, may I share with you that Adivasis, Tribals or with whatever name you may […]
Visitors: 258It was a very interesting and passionate letter. But, I have few crucial questions and can I expect a transparent Multinational Corporate like Vedanta to give focused response. 1. At the outset, keeping in line with Copenhagen Climate change agenda, may I share with you that Adivasis, Tribals or with whatever name you may […]
Visitors: 308India Traditional norms and values of the Indian society laid stress on providing care for the elderly. However, due to withering of the joint family system, a large number of elderly are not being looked after by their family. Consequently, many older persons, particularly widowed women are now forced to spend their twilight years […]
Visitors: 237India Traditional norms and values of the Indian society laid stress on providing care for the elderly. However, due to withering of the joint family system, a large number of elderly are not being looked after by their family. Consequently, many older persons, particularly widowed women are now forced to spend their twilight years […]
Visitors: 677 The status of RTI in Uttar Pradesh is really bad as I and all other RTI activists from UP have been telling time and again. I have my own experiences while each of our friends have their own. The worst culprit of this poor situation is the UP Information Commission where the Information […]
Visitors: 228 The status of RTI in Uttar Pradesh is really bad as I and all other RTI activists from UP have been telling time and again. I have my own experiences while each of our friends have their own. The worst culprit of this poor situation is the UP Information Commission where the Information […]
Visitors: 570(Neeraj Bhushan is writing ‘PTI Diary’ these days, taking up the role of a whistleblower attempting to expose a corrupt system eating up India’s premier English News Agency – Press Trust of India, commonly known as PTI. Postings in the online diary are done every Sunday evening, when Neeraj turns into a wonderful storyteller, […]
Visitors: 236(Neeraj Bhushan is writing ‘PTI Diary’ these days, taking up the role of a whistleblower attempting to expose a corrupt system eating up India’s premier English News Agency – Press Trust of India, commonly known as PTI. Postings in the online diary are done every Sunday evening, when Neeraj turns into a wonderful storyteller, […]
Indresh KumarIndresh Kumar is the senior member, National Executive, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. Indresh Kumar is also the patron and the key person of the Muslim Rashtriya Manch (MRM), an organisation of RSS, Rashtriya Swayam Sewak Sangh. Vivek Umrao interviewed Indresh Kumar in January 2010 on various issues. Visitors: 591
Visitors: 404Mexico José Alberto Velázquez López, editor and owner of the daily newspaper Expresiones de Tulum, based in Tulum, Quintana Roo state, and a contributor to a local television station, was shot dead in Cancún on 22 December 2009. Velázquez was driving home after a Christmas party for the newspaper staff when he was followed […]
Visitors: 502Mexico José Alberto Velázquez López, editor and owner of the daily newspaper Expresiones de Tulum, based in Tulum, Quintana Roo state, and a contributor to a local television station, was shot dead in Cancún on 22 December 2009. Velázquez was driving home after a Christmas party for the newspaper staff when he was followed […]
Visitors: 300Synopsis: Greenpeace India recently released a survey report on the discrimination prevailing in the supply of electricity to rural and urban areas. This report “Still Waiting” demonstrates, on the basis of survey conducted in five states, that the rural India is being neglected even after 62 years of independence as far as electricity supply […]
Visitors: 293Synopsis: Greenpeace India recently released a survey report on the discrimination prevailing in the supply of electricity to rural and urban areas. This report “Still Waiting” demonstrates, on the basis of survey conducted in five states, that the rural India is being neglected even after 62 years of independence as far as electricity supply […]
Visitors: 490China Sydney PEN is shocked and dismayed by the sentencing of dissident Chinese writer and academic Liu Xiaobo to 11 years imprisonment on charges of “subverting state power”. The trial was held on December 23, 2009 in Beijing, following Liu’s detention late last year. The trial concluded without providing a verdict until Friday, December […]