Prof. SAR Geelani Farewell the humanist and the tireless human rights defender, Prof. SAR Geelani. It is with great sadness that NCHRO has heard about the death of Prof.SAR Geelani, a tireless activist and brave…
Second round of talks with Hurriyat in offing:…
New Delhi, Feb 25: Hurriyat Conference, which stayed away from the first-ever round-table meet on Kashmir, has approached the Centre for holding second round of talks on the Kashmir issue, dates for which will be…
Gujarat: Four Years After
By Azim Khan / 25 February, 2006 Countercurrents.org Last month, during a visit to Ahmedabad I befriended the owner of a tea-stall, a policeman and a businessman. My vendor 'friend', a wonderful man, was an…
Delhi Police officials admit there was manipulation
COP-ING WITH PRESSURE: The police is being taken to task for shoddy investigation of the case. New Delhi: All the nine accused in the murder of model Jessica Lall in 1999 have walked free. However,…
Zaheera is in Mumbai, says Vadodara CP
Vadodara | February 26, 2006 12:38:41 AM IST Setting at rest all speculations regarding the whereabouts of Best Bakery prime witness-turned-hostile Zaheera Sheikh, city Police Commissioner Deepak Swaroop today confirmed that she was in Mumbai.…
VHP to provide free legal aid, ration to…
Vadodara | February 26, 2006 12:43:55 AM IST The city unit of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) today announced its decision to take care of all the families of the 21 accused in the Best…
"Christians are not persecuted by Muslims" Italian Muslim…
(AGI) - Rome, Feb. 24 - The president of the UCOII (the Union of Islamic Communities in Italy) Mohamed Nour Dachan denies that Christians are persecuted by Muslims in Islamic countries. According to Nour Dachan,…
Tension prevails in Kannur; 32 IUML party offices…
Kannur | February 25, 2006 8:44:35 PM IST Tension prevailed in this north Kerala district as 32 party offices of Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) were allegedly ransacked by CPI(M) activists today in an…
Christians, Muslims join on nuclear disarmament issue
Saturday, February 25, 2006, By Juanita Westaby The Grand Rapids Press KENTWOOD -- The Rev. Susan Thistlethwaite is fairly certain you haven't seen the nuclear arms statement she helped write last summer. And she's almost…