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Koodankulam Must Be Stopped: Dr. A Gopalakrishnan #nuclear

DiaNuke Dr. A Gopalakrishnan, the former Chairman of India’s Atomic Energy Regulatory Board, has raised some urgent issues in his article in the New Indian Express today that the government must address before commissioning Koodankulam. Please click on the picture… Continue Reading →

Activists Welcome the SC judgement on Vedanta, and mining in Niyamgiri #Victory #Tribalrights

  PPSS welcomes the verdict of Supreme court yesterday (i.e. 18th April 2013)  on  the issues of mining in Niyamagiri hills of Odisha. The verdict said that it’s upto the Gram Sabha (Village-level Assembly) to decide whether to allow mining in Niyamgiri Hills by the… Continue Reading →

PRESS RELEASE- Statement on Harassment and Sensational Misleading reporting of TV channels #Vaw

STATEMENT ON HARASSMENT AND SENSATIONAL, MISLEADING REPORTING BY TV CHANNELS By the Network of Women in Media, India 19 April 2013 Late evening on 12 April 2013, a group of students from Nalsar Law University went to the Rain Club… Continue Reading →

Gujarat- Dalit woman sarpanch who ‘stands against’ predecessors sent to jail #Vaw

Parimal Dabhi : Lakhvad (Mehsana), Thu Apr 18 2013, IE The main entrance of Lakhvad village, around 3-4 kilometres from Mehsana. A dalit woman sarpanch from Lakhvad village of Mehsana district, Kamla Makwana, her husband, their son and two others were… Continue Reading →

SC slams brakes on Vedanta’s Niyamgiri project #GOODNEWS #tribalrights #PESA

NDTV , April 18, 2013 New Delhi: The Supreme Court has continued a ban on bauxite mining in the Niyamgiri Hills in Odisha considered sacred by tribals. In a verdict that appears to recognize the rights of forest-dwelling Dongria-Kondh tribals to… Continue Reading →

Panel for ban on mining in 37 % of Western Ghats #goodnews

PRISCILLA JEBARAJ, The Hindu Identifying 37 per cent — or about 60,000 square km — of the Western Ghats as ecologically sensitive, a high-level panel has recommended that “destructive” activities such as mining, thermal power, major construction, and some hydel… Continue Reading →

Wireless messages dent SIT claim on Narendra Modi

New Delhi, April 18, 2013 Vidya Subrahmaniam, The Hindu  Extracts show violence before and during funeral processions of kar sevaks In its closure report submitted to the trial court, the Special Investigation Team that probed Zakia Jafri’s complaint against Narendra Modi and 58… Continue Reading →

Justice A P Shah – “One hardly finds a rich or affluent person going to the gallows” #deathpenalty

Justice Shah talks to AmnestyDeath Penalty in India: “One hardly finds a rich or affluent person going to the gallows” In November 2012, Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving gunman from the 2008 Mumbai attacks, was hanged in the country’s first… Continue Reading →

Is Maya Modi’s political jaal?

Gujarat EDN   DNA 18APR2013   Pundits opine demand for capital punishment is mere eyewash to improve his secular image Roxy Gagdekar @ahmedabad Probably the state government’s endorsement to SIT’s decision to approach HC seeking capital punishment for Naroda Patia… Continue Reading →

Living Through Terror, in Rawalpindi and Boston

April 16, 2013 By HAIDER JAVED WARRAICH, NYT BOSTON I WAS in the middle of having Chinese food with my wife and friends yesterday afternoon when we heard the dull and deathly reverb. The water in our plastic cups rippled. We… Continue Reading →

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