According to a communication from Papia Samajdar of CSE, the deadline for applying for CSE's Twelfth Media Fellowships - Water Bodies in India: Public Space, Private Designs, has been extended to May 31, 2011. For any clarifications, please contact:Ph: 011-29955124, 29955125, Fax: 011-29955879, 9811906977 Email: papia@cseindia.org or see the Website: www.cseindia.org Water Bodies in India : Public Space, Private Design June 1, 2011 – August 1, 2011 After land, our water bodies...

Anna Hazare succeeded because he tapped into a deeply felt anger against corruption and systemic gang-up. But the campaign must define itself ideologically or risk appropriation by right-wing usurpers. A future historian attempting to document the Anna Hazare fast at the Capital's Jantar Mantar will likely confront contrasting images: of multitudes enthused and galvanised by one elder citizen's crusading zeal, of Mr. Hazare's almost single-handed ability, within days, to bring the...

The National Human Rights Commission has directed its Director-General (Investigation) to depute a team to look into the plight of bonded labourers working at a brick kiln in Domanpur village of Azamgarh district in Uttar Pradesh. Suo motu cognisance The Commission took the decision taking suo motu cognisance of a report telecast by a news TV channel recently with interviews of three such labourers. The workers alleged that they were being forced to...

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has directed its Director General (Investigation) to depute a team to look into the plight of bonded labourers in a brick kiln in Domanpur village of Azamgarh district of Uttar Pradesh. The Commission took the decision, taking suo motu cognisance of a telecast by a Television channel recently of interviews with three such labourers. The workers alleged that they were being forced to work as...

A court on Wednesday put on trial the first set of officials and businessmen indicted in the country's biggest corruption case, a multi-billion dollar telecoms scandal that has weakened the government and put off some foreign investors. The graft scandal is one of several to have emerged in the past few months, tarnishing the reputation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, whose government has gone on the defensive against an emboldened opposition. While...