Agencies New Delhi, October 17: The world is not a very happy place. Researchers at Britain's University of Leicester have an interesting explanation to give, you might just be in the wrong country.According to Adrian…
Sterilization drive kills 17 women in Chhattisgarh, hundreds…
21 November 2014 Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information about the death of 17 women due to medical negligence in botched sterilization surgeries organised in an abandoned hospital that lacked basic…
Parents held for 'honour’ killing of 21-year-old Delhi…
21 November 2014 NEW DELHI: In a horrific case of "honour killing" in the capital, a 21-year-old final year student of Sri Venkateswara, a leading college in Delhi University's south campus, was allegedly murdered by…
Explain why ATS was kept out of RTI…
16 November 2014 The state information commission has directed the state government to list the reasons why it kept Force One, the Anti-Terrorist Squad and the Anti-Corruption Bureau out of the ambit of the Right…
INDIA: “Swachh Bharat Abhiyan” and the filth of…
9 Novembar 2014 by Avinash Pandey No, the man pictured here has not entered the gutter as part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s much hyped Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, or “clean India campaign”. Unlike the ad…
INDIA: Denial won’t wish away “Indian” racism against…
by Avinash Pandey 25 October 2014 They did not speak Kannada, the language of the state they live in. They, therefore, were “legitimate” targets of violence in a city that has benefitted the most from…
Woman killed cop for pushing her into prostitution
9 October 2014 MUMBAI: Almost a month after the partially charred body of a constable was found in a slum room on Juhu Tara Road and a commercial sex worker was arrested on the murder…
35% of female characters in Indian movies shown…
25 September 2014 India tops the chart in showing attractive women in its movies and as much as 35% of these female characters are shown with some nudity, finds a first-ever UN sponsored global study…
Communal Riots in Uttar Pradesh
24 September 2014 by Badri Narayan After the 1990s, communal incidents in India have spread to rural areas, and they occur on a smaller scale, but with much larger frequency. In this strategy, the making…