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...
Pratirodh Bureau
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
जब डीजीपी ही सांप्रदायिक हो तो दंगे तो होंगे ही
रिहाई मंच द्वारा विधानसभा धरना स्थल लखनऊ में आतंकवाद के नाम पर कैद निर्दोषों को छोड़ने और सांप्रदायिक दंगों की...
Israel Bombs Gaza: Media Fails to Report the Truth
Noam Chomsky and others underline this stark contrast between the plight of Palestinian civilians(barely noticed in the media) and the...
Land bill follows principle of eminent domain
NAPM has written an open letter to the agriculture minister Sharad Pawar regarding the current draft of land acquisition bill....
Activists demand release of Dayamani Barla
Condemning the arrest of woman tribal-activist and journalist Dayamani Barla in Jharkhand, rights activists have demanded that the "false cases"...
Haryana rape cases: A detailed report
Over 15 cases of rape and gangrape have been reported in Haryana since September. Members of AISA and AIPWA in...
Media ignoring hard facts about Fasih Mahmood
Fasih Mahmood, suspected to have been involved in a conspiracy to set off bomb blasts in Bangalore and Delhi, was...
Actvists demand Sharad Pawar’s resignation
Social activist and National Alliance of People’s Movement (NAPM) leader Medha Patkar along with other activists demanded resignation of Union...
Groups slam Sunilam, Dayamani incarceration
The founder president of Kisan Sangharsh Samiti, Dr Sunilam, has been sentenced to life imprisonment in a 14-year-old case of...
साहित्य और पत्रकारिता की दूरी बढ़ी है: मंगलेश डबराल
गांधी शांति प्रतिष्ठान के सभागार में कवि, चित्रकार और दूरदर्शन के मशहूर प्रोड्यूसर कुबेर दत्त की याद में जन संस्कृति...
Gram Sabhas forced to pass illegal resolution
A press release by Saal Ghati Bachao Sangharsh Morcha and Himalaya Niti Abhiyan: The villagers protesting against the land...
Journalist Syed Kazmi gets bail
The Supreme Court today granted bail to Syed Mohammad Kazmi. The urdu journalist is an accused in the bomb attack...
A proposal to simplify food security bill
Eminent development economists from across the World have written to prime minister Manmohan Singh proposing significant changes in the proposed...
Food Bill denying coverage to 33%
Right to Food Campaign is alarmed over the media reports which say that government is considering a plan as per...
दोषी पुलिसकर्मियों पर हो कार्रवाई
आतंक विरोधी क़ानूनों का बड़े पैमाने पर एक ख़ास समुदाय के ख़िलाफ़ दुरुपयोग हो रहा है और इसे रोकने के...
