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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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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’…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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MGNREGS: Fake and Fraudulent

 The streets of the obscure town of Pandharkawda in Yavatmal district of Maharashtra have come to life. Hundreds of villagers…

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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…

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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…

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Widows of debt-ridden Vidarbha farmers

Dilapidated huts on one side and cotton fields on the other line the potholed road to Pada, a hamlet in…

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Vidarbha: Insatiable and Corrupt

 It is telling when thousands of crores of rupees are spent on irrigation projects and yet the irrigation potential of…

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