-The Hindu KOTTAYAM: Dharmarajan, the third accused in the Suryanelli sex abuse case, who was absconding after jumping bail in 2005, was on Friday arrested at Sagar in Shimoga district by a Special Investigation Team of the Kerala Police, said district police chief C. Rajagopal. He will be produced before the Suryanelli Special Court here on Saturday. According to police sources, Dharmarajan was arrested from a lodge near Sagar city. The police chief said...
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Vayalar’s sexist swipe at scribe adds to Cong woes
-The Times of India Information and broadcasting minister ManishTewari on Thursday said that his colleague and minister for overseas Indian affairs Vayalar Ravi has apologized for his sexist comments, and the matter should rest there. Tewari said the remark was unbecoming for someone working in the public sphere, but since Ravi had apologized and withdrawn his remarks, the matter should now be put to rest. A woman journalist in Kerala sought Ravi's...
More »Rajasthan lends its voice to the ‘One Billion Rising’ campaign-Mahim Pratap Singh
-The Hindu Jaipur: On Thursday, several people in Jaipur celebrated the Valentine’s Day in a way it has never been done before, as they gathered in the heart of the city to pledge an end to violence against women under the global “One Billion Rising” campaign. “I too, as a woman, have come to lend my voice and express solidarity to end violence against women from the face of the earth,” Rajasthan...
More »Fall in word and spirit-Rudrangshu Mukherjee
-The Telegraph It is the time for West Bengal to create landmarks. First, the denial of a rape; second, the arrest of an academic for circulating a cartoon; third, a public circus with the winners of the Indian Premier League; fourth, the mimicry of the prime minister on television; fifth, the announcement of sop after sop even though the state is bankrupt; sixth, the announcement in the hills of being “rough...
More »Coalgate probe stalls as CBI awaits files from ministry -Rajeev Deshpande & Neeraj Chauhan
-The Times of India More than five months after the CBI began investigating Coalgate, the agency is yet to receive hundreds of files from the coal ministry as it probes charges of criminality in allocation of coal blocks to private players. Although CBI has been sifting through an enormous mass of information regarding coal block allocations that the CAG has said caused a loss of Rs 1.86 lakh crore to the government,...
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