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Civil society aghast at Afzal\’s hanging

In a joint statement, Teachers, filmmakers, writers, artists, journalists and activists have condemned the secret hanging of Parliament attack convict…

13 years ago
  • The New Feudals

SEBI freezes accounts of Sahara firms

The Sebi on Wednesday ordered freezing of bank accounts of two Sahara group firms and top executives, including group chief…

13 years ago
  • Featured

Some Questions for Com Karat on Afzal\’s killing

(When world is debating on the logic of capital punishment, India has hanged two humans in three months. The second…

13 years ago
  • World View

‘TORTURE CORPORATION OF USA’

Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Central Intelligence Agency embarked on a highly classified program of secret…

13 years ago
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  • Multimedia

Capital Punishment: An Agenda for Abolition

This is the audio of Second Advocate Shahid Azmi Memorial Lecture, delivered by Senior Lawyer at Mumbai High Court, Adv.…

13 years ago
  • Featured

A perfect day for democracy

 Wasn’t it? Yesterday I mean. Spring announced itself in Delhi. The sun was out, and the Law took its Course.…

13 years ago
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Activists protest Afzal Guru\’s hanging

 Scores of students, journalists accompanied by members of CPI (ML), Peoples Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR), National Confederation of Human…

13 years ago
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Funds to NGOs squandered: Report

In its  report ‘India’s Funds to NGOs Squandered’, Asian Centre for Human Rights alleges that the Union and State governments…

13 years ago
  • The New Feudals

Freeze accounts of Sahara Group: SC to SEBI

In fresh trouble to Sahara group, the Supreme Court today asked SEBI to freeze accounts and seize properties of its…

13 years ago
  • Featured

Balanced view needed on juvenile age

Involvement of Juvenile in the recent Delhi rape case has generated strong discussion for revisiting and broadening the age range…

13 years ago
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House panel report on food security bill flayed

 Right to Food Campaign has urged Members of Parliament and political parties to reject the Parliamentary Standing Committee’s recommendations on…

13 years ago
  • Arts And Aesthetics

Let Us Call Him Vasu: A cover-up

This was the time when I was still working in Dantewada. A recently appointed IG invited some journalists to his…

13 years ago
  • Featured

Joint Public Statement on Hindutva Terror

In a joint public statement, activists, teachers and journalists have demanded wider probe into the Hindutva Terror network and its…

13 years ago
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Yeh hain Bombay meri jaan…

Even as the infinite sea moves like a gigantic, living creature in perpetual motion, bringing cool winds and the tide…

13 years ago
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Cash Transfer or Congress Calling Card!

If Year 2012 earned the sobriquet of “Year of Scams’ due to serial expose of “super social cop” Arvind Kejeriwal,…

13 years ago
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Activist harassed by \’Times Now\’

Noted social activist Shabnam Hashmi has accused the TV News channel Times Now of threatening to publicly ‘name and shame’…

13 years ago
  • Arts And Aesthetics

Book review: The Curious Case of Binayak Sen

Here is review of Dilip D'Souza's book 'The Curious Case of Binayak Sen'.   Ever since the pediatrician, public health…

13 years ago
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Jaipur: Homeless freeze in the cold

With the mercury plummeting,thousands of homeless people continue to bear the harsh winter in the absence of sufficient night shelters…

13 years ago
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Mumbai’s poor demand land, housing rights

Support to the Ghar Bachao Ghar Banao Andolan(GBGBA) agitation, demanding right to dignified housing of the Mumbai working class living…

13 years ago
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Aruna Roy objects to direct cash transfer

National Advisory Council (NAC) member and MKSS leader Aruna Roy shot off a scathing letter to the finance ministry objecting…

13 years ago
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Urban poor take to the streets in Mumbai

Thousands of activists and slum dwellers from across the city embarked on a two-day march on January 1 afternoon to…

13 years ago
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When A Womb Is Attacked…

Public memory is short term. Some of you may remember. Many, won\\\'t. Ten years ago, in the heart of Delhi,…

13 years ago
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Dissent on Cash Transfers and UID

 The statement by eminent Indian citizens ( signatures below) opposing the rush to cash transfers and UID:   We support…

13 years ago
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Chhattisgarh\’s Food Act Welcomed

Chhattisgarh Food Security Act (CFSA), an improved version of the "national food security bill" that has been languishing in Parliament…

13 years ago
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So what are we demanding at India Gate?

 A mass mobilisation on the issue of sexual violence looks like a feminist dream. Especially, if you recall that only…

13 years ago

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