1. Drawing Attention to the Use of UAPA Michelle Bachelet, the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights, has recently expressed concerns over the use of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act-UAPA in India. The Commissioner has…
Intelligence Officer of NCB arrested
Chandigarh: The CBI today arrested an Intelligence Officer of Narcotics Control Bureau here on the charge of demanding and accepting Rs 40,000. Ravikant Panwar allegedly accepted the amount from complainant Devinder Kumar of Sarwari Bazar,…
MP govt to remove chapter on Nehru
MP govt to remove chapter on NehruWednesday, June 21, 2006 (Jabalpur): The BJP government in Madhya Pradesh has decided to remove chapters on Jawaharlal Nehru, first Prime Minister, from Class I textbooks. A move, which…
Bush warns Iran and North Korea not to…
Human rights campaigners protest in Vienna against the US detention centre at Guantánamo Bay ahead of George Bush's visit for an EU/US summit.A visibly angry George Bush rounded on the two remaining members of Washington's…
Rising prices send family budgets haywire
Thursday, June 22nd, 2006, IndiaEnews.COMNew Delhi - Even as India’s economy is said to boom, millions of its citizens are groaning under soaring prices of vegetables and foodgrains and wish the government would do something…
Small arms: the global trade in life and…
By Jeremy Lovell, Tue Jun 20, 2006 8:26am ET10LONDON (Reuters) - From Africa to Bosnia, back to Africa and on to the Middle East -- the often secretive flow of guns and bullets follows the…
Upper caste men ill-treated us: Dalits
Jaipur, June 20: Dalits in Cidiyas village, in Rajasthan’s Bhilwara district, say they were subjected to ill treatment when they worked as labourers engaged in famine relief. “The upper caste Hindus treated us as untouchables…