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...
Pratirodh Bureau
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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’...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Dissent on Cash Transfers and UID
The statement by eminent Indian citizens ( signatures below) opposing the rush to cash transfers and UID: We support...
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...
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...
Right to Food campaign holds \’dhikkar rally\’
The "Right to Food Dharna" convened by the right to food campaign concluded with an extended plenary session and a...
Protest for Naticonal Food Security bill
Over 1000 people from all across the country will sit at a three-day ‘Right to Food’ dharna at Jantar Mantar...
Kotkasim fiasco victims meet Jairam Ramesh
Hundreds of the victims of failed \\\'cash transfer\\\' experiment in Kotakism met the Rural Development minister Jairam Ramesh at Jantar...
The Quiet Grip of Caste
Some time ago I visited a Dalit hamlet in Rewa district. It was hemmed in on all sides by the...
500 J&K security men involved in HR abuse
(International Peoples\\\' Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice (IPTK), along with Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) has released...
MGNREGS: Fake and Fraudulent
The streets of the obscure town of Pandharkawda in Yavatmal district of Maharashtra have come to life. Hundreds of villagers...
Students charged with attempt to murder
Students and youngsters, who faced brutal lathicharge on August 9, 2012, at Delhi’s Parliament Street where they had gathered to...
Struggle against TISCO: Xavier Dias arrested
Activist Xavier Dias and six adivasis have been arrested by Jharkhand police on various false charges levelled against them at...
