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…
MSHRC calls for international effort to ratify Anti…
Imphal, April 20 2009: The Manipur State Human Rights Commission (MSHRC) has called upon countries of South Asia/Asia to urge upon the Government to ratify Anti-Torture Convention. Addressing a conference of NHRIs of South Asian…
Is CBI hand in glove with Hindutva agencies?
The assumption that CBI is an impartial investigative agency which the Muslims thought is now gradually becoming a farce because of them itself. The Nanded blast in April 2006 had claimed the lives of two…
Illicit Financial Outflows from India $22 Billion-$27 Billion…
Global Financial Integrity issued a statement today on its 2008 report "Illicit Financial Flows from Developing Countries: 2002-2006," in response to growing interest in and citation of the report's estimates of illicit capital flight out…
GIC hears Samirkhan encounter case
Ahmedabad : On October 22, 2002, city crime branch gunned down his son claiming that he was a Lashkar-e-Taiba operative on a mission to ill Chief Minister Narendra Modi. But, he believes this was a…
Army officer arrested on corruption charges
Chandigarh, April 20 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Monday arrested an Indian Army colonel from Bathinda cantonment in Punjab for accepting a bribe from a contractor, officials said. CBI Deputy Inspector General (DIG)…
Times of India leads the terror-mongering pack
Terror is the biggest business today at home and abroad. Everyone is a beneficiary. The government gets more clout and more powers over the lives of its hapless subjects through new terror laws and activation…
India Government must ratify CAT
Dr. Jan Ole Haagensen, Director, International Department Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims (RCT) Denmark made the following speech at a national seminar. Read More