New Delhi: The NIA has raided the office of Parveena Ahanger, co-founder and chairman of the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) on Wednesday. The raid on the APDP is part of a larger…
Expert committee suggests major police reforms
Mon Oct 30, 2006NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A government-appointed panel suggested sweeping changes to laws that govern the country's police on Monday to help make the gigantic force more efficient, accountable and professional.Police in India…
Kashmir parents protest against "disappearances"
Mon Oct 30, 2006 SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Dozens of parents protested in Kashmir's main city on Monday to demand information about their children who they said had disappeared since a rebellion broke out in…
Militant born in Mysore! Encounter plot thickens
P M Raghunandan & Sandhya Divakaran DH News Service Mysore, 28 Oct.2006A Bajrang Dal militant with pistol in Bhopal, The Mysore ‘encounter’ story is getting curiouser by the day, if not by the hour. Mohammad…
Santosh Singh gets death sentence in Priyadarshini Mattoo…
Mon Oct 30, 2006 NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Delhi High Court on Monday sentenced the son of a former police officer to death for the 1996 rape and murder of a law student in…
Here, riot victims are not fighting for justice,…
Resettled at Citizen’s Colony, victims living without electricity, water, healthcare facilitiesDhurjoti Bhattacharya, Express India,Oct30, 2006Ahmedabad, October 29: IF the riots were not bad enough, rehabilitation did the rest for former residents of Naroda Patiya. Resettled…
Summit of the Powerless
Tehelka is organising a Summit of the Powerless on 20 and 21 November 2006 at the Jamia Milia Islamia University in Delhi. Read More
Enemy within: Fragging takes its toll on Army
Rajat Pandit, 30 Oct, 2006 TIMES NEWS NETWORK NEW DELHI: Will somebody in the Army brass wake up? Fragging - to wound or kill a fellow soldier - can no longer be brushed under the…
Where it is a criminal offence to convert…
By George Thomas Onlineopinion.com.au , 23 October 2006 The Christian conversion issueAmid the surge of Hindu nationalism in India since 1998, and especially among the Hindu diaspora in the United States who fund such…