NCHRO pleads for the release on parole of Aged, Ill or Handicapped Prisoners New Delhi 26 March 2020 NCHRO welcomes the order issued by the Supreme Court of India to consider releasing the prisoners and…
Warning signals
PRAFUL BIDWAI As the global nuclear industry's fate hangs in the balance, India must rethink its nuclear power expansion plans and impose a moratorium on new reactors. “We cannot afford another accident.” This was…
2002 riots an ‘internal Gujarati matter': Modi told…
Suresh NambathConsul-General Owen stands his ground on ‘human rights and religious freedom' in a ‘chilly' 2006 meeting in Gandhinagar U.S. itself is guilty of ‘horrific human rights violations,' hits back Gujarat…
Baba Ramdev: Yogi or Commissar?
Ram PuniyaniBaba Ramdev has been probably most successful of God men of recent times. He claims to have a following of over a billion people. There are an infinite number of people claiming that his…
Hindu terrorism charges force India to reflect on…
By Simon Denyer and Rama Lakshmi (March 13, 2011, Washington Post)In Dewas, India when a series of bomb attacks ripped through Muslim neighborhoods, mosques and shrines in India in recent years, suspicion fell firmly on…
Christians in fear after Qur’an burning
Women flee for fear of attack, two Christians killed, more protests expected Tension continues to spread in eastern Punjab province where police struggled to control a mob attempting to raid a Full Gospel Assembly church…
Political Machinations Of Hindutva
By Ram PuniyaniFilm Review(Film: Saffron War by Rajiv Yadav, Shahanawaz Alam and Lakshman Prashad, Duration 61 Minutes, Contribution, Rs 95, Available from: 632/13, Shankarpuri, Kamta, Post: Chinhat, Lucknow, UP)With the rise of Hindutva movement during…
Rights bodies demand CB-CID probe in calf head…
MADURAI: A fact-finding team of various human rights organisations has demanded a CB-CID inquiry in the case in which a calf's severed head was found wrapped in a plastic bag inside the premises of Rashtriya…
Nuclear disaster: Japan now, India next?
Dear friends across India As nuclear disaster ravages Japan, Congress is moving ahead with plans to build the world's largest nuclear power development -- on an earthquake hotspot. The Jaitapur nuclear reactors have been rubber-stamped…