-The Statesman GUWAHATI, 7 MAY: Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR), a New Delhi-based rights body, has come out strongly against the Delhi University (DU) for its decision to introduce compulsory Hindi and other Modern Indian Languages (MIL) in its courses without assessing the ground reality and urged the University Grants Commission to intervene with the famed university "to halt the four year undergraduate programme and not to introduce compulsory MILs...
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When development triggers caste violence -Hugo Gorringe
-The Hindu The educational and economic development of Dalits is seen by the backward castes as a challenge to the social order, as recent incidents in Tamil Nadu show On the evening of November 7, 2012, a crowd numbering over 1000 people burst into three Dalit settlements in Dharmapuri, north-western Tamil Nadu, and laid them waste. Over a period of several hours, they looted, smashed and burned. Trees had been felled on...
More »SC won’t stay Centre’s minority scholarship scheme in Gujarat
-The Hindu The Supreme Court on Monday declined to stay a Gujarat High Court judgment upholding the constitutional validity of the Centre's scholarship scheme for minority students in the State. The High Court, in a majority decision in February, had rejected the Narendra Modi government's contention that the pre-matriculation scholarship scheme was discriminatory, and directed it to implement it. Justices P. Sathasivam and M.Y. Eqbal, while issuing notice on the government's appeal against...
More »Trail of death in chit fund collapse -Falguni Banerjee & Sanjib Chakraborty
-The Times of India CHINSURAH/SODEPUR: The body count in the aftermath of the Saradha collapse keeps going up. A director of a micro-finance company was murdered at his home in Hooghly's Chinsurah on Monday even as the father of a chit fund agent hanged himself after being beaten and humiliated by cheated depositors in Sodepur on the northern outskirts of Kolkata. This is the eighth suicide since the Saradha Group meltdown ruined...
More »Affordable water purification using silver nanoparticles-R Prasad
-The Hindu Chennai: A team led by an IIT-Madras professor has devised a cheap and effective method to produce clean drinking water. It will soon be possible to produce 10 litres of water - free of bacteria and virus - at just Rs. 10-12 per month, for the daily consumption of a family of five. Prof. T. Pradeep of the department of chemistry at IIT-M and his team have made use of silver...
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