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…
Love failure caused Akbar Raj to threaten Manmohan
Don Sebastian, DNA India, October 30, 2006 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The police on Sunday confirmed that they have nabbed the man who sent emails to the home secretary and top cops threatening to kill Prime Minister Manmohan…
Report: India's Muslims over-represented among prison inmates
he Associated PressPublished: October 29, 2006NEW DELHI India's jails hold a disproportionate number of the country's minority Muslims, a sign of discrimination and alienation from the Hindu majority, according to a report published Sunday. In many…
Letters That Change Lives : Madhavi Tata
A model evolved for adult literacy in Andhra Pradesh gets worldwide recognitionAkshara Mahila, a model first implemented in the tiny village of Kothapalli, West Godavari district, has pushed India’s literacy drive on to the world…
Gambits' are a risk to Internet domain system
By Victoria Shannon International Herald TribuneOctober 29, 2006PARIS Vinton Cerf, a communications expert known as a father of the Internet, said Sunday that he feared the network's addressing system would break down if "political gambits"…
Imperialism and women : Sadie Robinson
Socialist Worker, 28 October 2006 The great powers’ claims to be concerned about women’s rights are a sham, writes Sadie Robinson‘The repression of women is always and everywhere wrong.” Some readers of Socialist Worker may be…
Indian Muslims have the worst educational indices even…
Javed M Ansari/Vineeta Pandey, DNA India, October 29, 2006 NEW DELHI: The Sachar Committee report, which explored the socio-economic and educational condition of Indian Muslims, had chilling figures to display prompting one of its members…
Support Sharmila, Repeal AFSPA, Restore Right to Life
Call For Action on November 2, 2006: 6 years of Hunger StrikeDear friends,During the last few decades, the people of North Eastern states and J&K have witnessed severe repression with the implementation of Armed Forces…
Israel is indispensable for India's defence needs is…
Prakash Karat, People's Democracy,(Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)Vol. XXX , No. 44, October 29, 2006THE completion of two and a half years of the UPA government has more or less coincided…