Day December 23, 2014
By: JOEL SIMON | Editor’s Note: We are pleased to run this excerpt from The New Censorship: Inside the Global Battle for Media Freedom by Joel Simon, executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists. This is the full introduction to the book, starting in… Continue Reading →
1 The national leaders of India have not been making any change in their evaluation on the Northeast – its people and its natural resources – for the past three hundred and fifty years. For Prime Minister Narendra Modi the… Continue Reading →
Last Updated At: 2014-12-23 5:49 PM RAJENDEA BHATTA In a bold act of defying the superstitious belief that women should not touch corpses‚ and non-Dalits should not touch Dalit bodies‚ women from the shelter at Bankhet went to the hospital… Continue Reading →
New Delhi | Tuesday, Dec 23 2014 IST NEW DELHI: Two men on a motorcycle threw acid on a woman doctor today in West Delhi’s Rajouri Garden. The attack has been caught on CCTV cameras installed in the market. The woman… Continue Reading →
ANISUR RAHMAN | DHAKA | DEC 23, 2014 A former junior minister in a Bangladeshi military government was sentenced to death on Tuesday after a war crimes tribunal found him guilty of atrocities during the country’s war of independence from Pakistan… Continue Reading →
PRESS RELEASE | December 22, 2014 The Citizens for Justice and Peace, Mumbai expresses outrage at the deliberate and vicious mis-reporting of the current witch hunt at the instances of the Gujarat Police Crime Branch and as scurrilously reported… Continue Reading →
Want to protect Hindus today and 1,000 years from now: Pravin Togadia Pravin Togadia. Written by Milind Ghatwai | Bhopal |Posted: December 22, 2014 3:21 am | Updated: December 22, 2014 3:58 pm Asserting that the whole world was once inhabited by Hindus, VHP… Continue Reading →
PTI Dec 20, 2014, 06.30PM IST (The Human Rights Watch criticised…) ISLAMABAD: Rights groups today condemned as “a craven politicised reaction” Pakistan’s hasty move to lift a self-imposed ban on death penalty in terror-related cases, days after Taliban militants killed at… Continue Reading →
LOGGING AND MINING HOW ONE INDIGENOUS WOMAN TOOK ON A MULTINATIONAL MINING CORPORATION… AND WON GALLERY DECEMBER 21, 2014 Acuña de Chaupe at her property in front of the Blue Lagoon (Photo: Jorge Chávez Ortiz) December 21, 2014 | By Sarah Lazare | Common… Continue Reading →
December 20, 2014 By Ajmal Khan Background It has been more than four month now since the Adivasis in Kerala have started a historic struggle. They are demanding a set of basic requirements from the government and society of Kerala…. Continue Reading →