RTF Campaign slams wheat export
Right To Food Campaign has wtitten to prime minister Manmohan Singh asking him to reverse the cabinet decision to export...
Pratirodh Bureau
Need to review MGNREGA impact: Aruna
Social activist and NAC member Aruna Roy has stressed on the need for a mechanism to gauge the effectiveness of...
MKSS condemns attack on Akhil Gogoi
The Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS) strongly condemns the attack on RTI activist and General Secretary of the Krishak Mukti...
Seema-Vishwavijay ‘rihai manch’ launched
With active participation of PUCL, NAPM and CRPP members, Seema-Vishwavijay \\\'rihai manch\\\' was formally launched on Friday evening in Allahabad....
Ban hazardous waste import: SC to govt
ToxicsWatch Alliance (TWA) welcomes Supreme Court’s judgment delivered on July 6, 2012 directing the central government to ban import of...
Hem Pandey memorial lecture on July 2
The second Hem Chandra Pandey Memorial Lecture will be delivered at 4.30 pm, July 2, 2012, at Jawahar Lal Nehru...
Activist shot at for opposing JSPL project
A leading environmental activist Ramesh Agarwal was shot at and injured on Saturday by two gunmen, allegedly at the behest...
Finally, some relief for Pinki Pramanik
In a big relief to athlete Pinki Pramanik, Calcutta high court on Friday ordered probe into the alleged violations of...
Gujarat riots: Another setback for Modi
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to entertain the Narendra Modi government’s plea for staying the Gujarat High Court’s February...
Seema Azad case: Critique of verdict
PUCL and PUDR have jointly compiled a detailed report on the sentencing of Seema Azad and her husband Vishwa Vijay...
A maternal death every 10 minutes in India
India is likely to miss the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) related to maternal health as one maternal death is being...
Innocent villagers killed in Chhattisgarh
People of Bijapur, Chhattisgarh say that the 20 people, including women and children, killed in the biggest encounter involving CRPF...
BBC reporters told to make money
A leaked email has revealed that BBC has asked its journalists to come up with the money generating ideas for...
Arun Ferreira\’s account of prison life
(After spending about five years in jail, Mumbai-based activist Arun Ferreira was released on bail in January this year. In...
Egypt: Mohamed Morsi, first freely elected Prez
Egypt has been launched on a path unthinkable to all. Once a political prisoner under Hosni Mubarak, Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed...
Egregious Injustice is a disease
(No one individual critic has taken on the Indian State like Arundhati Roy has. In a fight that began with...
No respite for helpless Soni Sori
Soni Sori continues to be ill-treated at the hands of Chhattisgarh government, after a brief breather during her treatment at...
Activists demand equal distribution of water
The Right to Water Campaign organised a press conference in Delhi on Tuesday to discuss the drinking water crisis in...
Anti-asbestos struggle in Bihar gain momentum
Medha Patkar of National Alliance of Peoples’ Movements (NAPM) and Dr Barry Castleman, a world renowned public health expert from...
When will Nitish govt wake up to encephalitis?
Over 200 children have died in Bihar due to encephalitis since the outbreak of the disease in May this year....
Tarun had a long way to go
22-year old Tarun Sehrawat, a photo journalist with Tehelka, passed away on Friday battling some deadly diseases which he contracted...
Seema Azad’s case- Crushing voices of dissent
"The conviction of civil rights activist Seema Azad for terrorism, unlawful activities, sedition and waging war against the state is...
India’s mining industry lawless: HRW
Human Rights Watch has blamed Indian government for failing to enforce the human rights and environmental safeguards in the country’s...
Shock fall in UK manufacturing output
A combination of the crisis in the eurozone and weak domestic demand is putting the skids under the UK\\\'s manufacturing...
76 Indians qualify for Olympics so far
This year, 56 men and 20 women have booked their Olympic berths and the number is expected to go up...
