Visitors: 225Delhi, India A large number of RTI activists from the country including convenors of state RTI forums of MP, Bihar, West Bengal, AP, TN, Orissa, Delhi, Gujarat, J & K, Punjab, Haryana, Manipur and Maharashtra have written to the Prime Minister, Mrs Sonia Gandhi and Mr Lal Krishna Advani demanding that the next Chief […]
Visitors: 225Delhi, India A large number of RTI activists from the country including convenors of state RTI forums of MP, Bihar, West Bengal, AP, TN, Orissa, Delhi, Gujarat, J & K, Punjab, Haryana, Manipur and Maharashtra have written to the Prime Minister, Mrs Sonia Gandhi and Mr Lal Krishna Advani demanding that the next Chief […]
Visitors: 511 A Joint Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission and the Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha.INDIA: Government of West Bengal must act to prevent further starvation deaths E.M. Parvati died yesterday. Parvati was a resident of Belgachhia Bhagar, a municipal dumping ground of Howrah in West Bengal. The doctor who examined Parvati’s body certified […]
Visitors: 376 A Joint Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission and the Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha.INDIA: Government of West Bengal must act to prevent further starvation deaths E.M. Parvati died yesterday. Parvati was a resident of Belgachhia Bhagar, a municipal dumping ground of Howrah in West Bengal. The doctor who examined Parvati’s body certified […]
Visitors: 282 Shortly before midnight on 2 December 1984 thousands of tonnes of deadly chemicals leaked from Union Carbide’s pesticide plant in Bhopal, central India. Around half a million people were exposed. Between 7,000 and 10,000 people died in the immediate aftermath and a further 15,000 over the next 20 years. On 2 December 2009 […]
Visitors: 227 Shortly before midnight on 2 December 1984 thousands of tonnes of deadly chemicals leaked from Union Carbide’s pesticide plant in Bhopal, central India. Around half a million people were exposed. Between 7,000 and 10,000 people died in the immediate aftermath and a further 15,000 over the next 20 years. On 2 December 2009 […]
Visitors: 224Kolkata, West Bengal, India In a brutal eviction drive, to uproot nearly 6000 slum dwellers in the vicinity of Eastern Bypass, Kolkata and demolishment of their 1200 shanties for a suggested ‘beautification’ and ‘development’ programme took place by the personnel of Bidhan Nagar Police Station and Rapid Action Force (RAF) on 04/10/2009 from 6 […]
Visitors: 290Kolkata, West Bengal, India In a brutal eviction drive, to uproot nearly 6000 slum dwellers in the vicinity of Eastern Bypass, Kolkata and demolishment of their 1200 shanties for a suggested ‘beautification’ and ‘development’ programme took place by the personnel of Bidhan Nagar Police Station and Rapid Action Force (RAF) on 04/10/2009 from 6 […]
Visitors: 273Chhattisgarh, India The National Environment Appellate Authority on 17-11-2009 stayed the Environment Clearance granted to the 1200 MW Athena Thermal Power Plant at village Singhtari Tehsil Dabhra District Janjgir Champa, Chattisgarh. The decision came as a result of the Appeal filed by Jan Chetana and the “Villagers of Singhatarai” who challenged the environmental clearance […]
Visitors: 355Chhattisgarh, India The National Environment Appellate Authority on 17-11-2009 stayed the Environment Clearance granted to the 1200 MW Athena Thermal Power Plant at village Singhtari Tehsil Dabhra District Janjgir Champa, Chattisgarh. The decision came as a result of the Appeal filed by Jan Chetana and the “Villagers of Singhatarai” who challenged the environmental clearance […]
Visitors: 248The post of “Central Information Commissioner” (CIC) is not a constitutional post such as that of Governor or President. It is not created by the Constitution, but by Section 12 of the RTI Act. It is an Act meant for empowering the common citizens in seeking information from public authorities, and bringing about transparency […]
Visitors: 404West Bengal, India 17th November 2009 at about 00.30 a full circle of human despair has been completed with the death of Ms. EM Parvati aged about 45 years and wife of Late EM Ganesh. Parvati was another name in countless aggrieved of apathy of state deliverance and mindless development policy of the State, […]
Visitors: 344We welcome the reports that the Government of India and the CPI (Maoist) are agreeable to the idea of talks. In the present situation talks are the only way to come to a resolution of any problem, however difficult it may be. We reiterate that the talks should be unconditional, and that they should […]
Visitors: 502European Union “The biggest polluters turn out to become the biggest failures for climate protection”, commented EP Environment Committee Chair Jo Leinen (S&D, DE), on this weekends events. On the contrary, the December climate conference in Copenhagen “needs to become a success”, stressed Mr Leinen, who will chair the EP’s Copenhagen delegation. It would […]
Triloki Nath Purwar(The article was written in 1971, before the Bangladesh war) Headlines THE CRISISMAN’S NATURESOCIAL DEVELOPMENTNEW DIRECTIONFUTURE SOCIETYTHE SUBCONTINENT THE CRISISHuman society has been experiencing a suffocating and depressing situation in community living the world over. The conflict between nationalities and ideologies is sapping our creative energies in various spheres of life. In the […]
Visitors: 353North East Region, Jammu & Kashmir; India RESOLUTION We the civil society groups from Jammu and Kashmir and the North East affected by militarization and Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and other organizations in solidarity, having come together from 12 to 14 November 2009 at New Delhi and deliberated on the issues of […]
Visitors: 417 15 November 2009 “Since November 2008, thirty-five print and online journalists have been murdered,” said Marian Botsford Fraser, Chair of the Writers in Prison Committee. “All over the world, writers and journalists and bloggers are suffering for practicing their right to speak out on issues that matter.” On 15 November 2009, International PEN’s […]
Visitors: 383people of Indian Institute of Technology initiative, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India Shiksha Sopan continued its activities in all three sections of Shiksha, Sanskar and Swavalamban. There were contact programmes in Hostels, visit by eminent personalities, Special lectures, a Science workshop for teachers of local schools close to IITK Campus etc., apart from regular activities […]
Visitors: 321November 14, 2009: Opposing the proposal to weaken the Right to Information Act by amending it within the first four years of its implementation, people from 10 states across the country gathered together at Jantar Mantar for a day long dharna to warn the government against bringing any amendments. Several people’s groups and organisations […]
Visitors: 333 West Bengal, India Name of victim: Mr. Anwar Gain, son of Late Elahi Baksh Gain, aged about 35 years, by faith-Muslim, Post Office and Village -Tetulberia, Police Station – Gaighata, District – North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India. Name of perpetrators: (1) Mr. N R Paswan, BSF Camp-Inspector; (2) Mr. S. Hudda and […]
Visitors: 578 You may recall the case of Professor Davinderpal Singh Bhullar, a Sikh political activist, who went to Germany almost 15 years ago in December 1994 to seek political asylum after his father was disappeared by the Punjab police in 1991 and his family was repeatedly harassed and tortured. Bhullar was a known political […]
Visitors: 451 Peace leads to Human Rights; Vishwaranjan recovers the lost Human Rights of the poor. The peaceful jungles of Bastar were turned disturbed and made full of horror by almost all the departments of the government, since 1980. The nefarious acts of different government departments resulted in to Naxalism. It was not only the […]
Visitors: 316We conducted a fact finding upon information received that the victim Prashanta Mondal (deceased), District-Murshidabad was gunned down by the involved BSF personnel attached with Out-Post no.1 under DMC BSF BOP Camp, Lalgola Police Station, Murshidabad. The incident took place on 17/8/2009 at about 4 am. The victim was reportedly apprehended by the perpetrator […]
Visitors: 273Chhattisgarh, India (3 A.M on 6th of November) So – called safe guarders of the poor have once again showed their real face tonight at 3 A.M. by destroying the Peoples property. Two school buildings at Village Phulpad Police Station – Kuakonda were destroyed by them. This way, they deprived hundreads of Children from […]
Visitors: 326West Bengal, India I am attaching an incident of utter violation of rights of a child, not only by the domestic legal laws but also contravening the articles of UNCRC, which has been ratified by the Indian State more than decades ago and by that having the compulsion to ensure the rights of the […]