The government said it has no information about police violence against citizens while enforcing the coronavirus-induced lockdown last year As many as 348 people died in police custody in different parts of the country in the last…
Justice for ANNA POLITKOVSKAYA
Sign the Online petition calling for an international commission of enquiry in order to establish the truth about Anna Politkovskaya’s murder on 7 October 2006 in Moscow. Read More
Mysore encounter, a fishy story : Siharth Varada…
Sidharth Varadarajan, New Delhi. http://svaradarajan.blogspot.com 28, October 2006Virtually every newspaper in India today has front-paged the police account of an 'encounter' with two terrorists in Mysore. According to the official version, the two alleged terrorists…
Indian police hopefuls riot after 'difficult test'
6 November 2006Hundreds of would-be police constables in India have rioted after being angered by the application procedure.An official in the city of Ghaziabad told the BBC said that a written test proved too difficult…
Planning Commission draws up action plan for education…
According to a Planning Commission report, a shocking 90% of Muslim students drop out by the time they reach high school. Only 1% of Muslim women and 3.4% of men in urban areas are graduates.…
Reporters without borders urges internet users to join…
where: www.rsf.org When: 11 A.M. on 7 November to 11 A.M. on 8 November No one should ever be prevented from posting news online or writing a blog, but they are in the 13 countries…
Why Dalits embrace Buddhism?
Sumit Pande ,CNN-IBN , November 06, 2006 New Delhi: It’s a figure that will show up perhaps in the next annual census and is bound to astound many.Fifty years after Dalit messiah and the father…
American Prison Planet : Nick Turse
The Bush Administration as Global Jailor By Nick Turse Today, the United States presides over a burgeoning empire -- not only the "empire of bases" first described by Chalmers Johnson, but a far-flung new network…
The right to food : Biraj Patnaik
In recent years, the battle against hunger has been placed at the centre of the development discourse in India. This has come about mainly due to the efforts of the Right to Food Campaign and…