Bangluru 24 January! The National Confederation of Human Rights Organisations (NCHRO) organises the Mukundan C Menon Award since 2006 every year. The award is instituted by NCHRO in memory of late Mr. Mukundan C Menon,…
Oil Hunger Held Cause of U.S. Middle East…
by Sherwood Ross , August 28, 2006 http://www.opednews.comIf you think President Bush's invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq are not about oil, read bestseller "The Sorrows of Empire" by Chalmers Johnson(Owl Books).Oil "has been a constant…
Hindutva Violence at Brinda Karat's meeting
Raipur, Aug. 28 (PTI): Bajrang Dal activists today broke window panes and set the CPI (M) flag on fire at the venue of a meeting chaired by Communist leader Brinda Karat accusing her of working…
Bid to develop network of sanitation activists
NEW DELHI: In an effort to persuade the Centre to recognise that a major reason for the country's dismal record in sanitation has been its failure to involve women in its planning and implementation, the…
Child rights body asks India to ban labour…
Sat Aug 26, 2006NEW DELHI (Reuters) - International child rights' body Save the Children urged India on Saturday to ban child labour up to 18 years rather than 14 as planned, saying there are many…
Indian American boy charged for hate crime against…
By Indo Asian News ServiceNew York, Aug 27 (IANS) An Indian American boy in New Jersey, who made his own family the target of hate crime, has been formally charged.The 17-year-old has been charged along…
Drugs worth Rs 200 crore seized in Delhi
28 Aug, 2006 PTI NEW DELHI: In the biggest drug haul in the capital, Delhi Police has seized a huge consignment of a banned chemical worth Rs 200 crore in the international market and arrested…