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Journos and Women Activists Slam Tehelka Management

-Outlook New Delhi: Women activists and senior journalists today expressed dissatisfaction over the way Tehelka management handled the issue of the alleged sexual assault of a woman journalist by its Editor Tarun Tejpal and said law should take its course as it was not an internal matter. They were critical of the statements made by Tehelka Managing Editor Shoma Chaudhury who said it was not a police case which the organisation will...

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Push for speedy victim rehab

-The Telegraph New Delhi: The National Commission for Minorities (NCM) chairperson, Wajahat Habibullah, today said he would urge the Prime Minister to ensure speedy rehabilitation of Muzaffarnagar riot victims at Monday's National Integration Council (NIC) meeting. "According to official figures, nearly 44,500 Muslims have been displaced from their villages and have taken shelter in nearby schools and mosques in Muslim-dominated villages. I will urge the Prime Minister to take up the matter...

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Muzaffarnagar 2013 – Violence by Political Design: Centre for Policy Analysis

-Kafila.org This fact-finding exercise was coordinated by the CENTRE FOR POLICY ANALYSIS. Team members were the human rights activist and former civil servant Harsh Mander; former Director-General of the Border Security Force, E N Rammohan; Professor Kamal Mitra Chenoy of Jawaharlal Nehru University; National Integration Council member John Dayal; senior journalist Sukumar Muralidharan and CPA Director and senior editor Seema Mustafa. Introduction and Overview The first impression of the Muzaffarnagar countryside, now green...

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Number of international migrants rises above 232 million, UN reports

-The United Nations More people than ever are living abroad the United Nations today reported, with Asia seeing the largest increase of international migrants over the past decade, and the United States remaining the most popular destination. New figures from the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA) show that 232 million people, or 3.2 per cent of the world's population, live abroad worldwide, compared with 175 million in 2000 and...

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UPA to bring changes in food bill for wider acceptance in Parliament-Gargi Parsai

-The Hindu The UPA government has decided to bring amendments to the National Food Security Bill to help secure more support for the "game changer" legislation in Parliament. The government may move some of the changes proposed by other political parties, such as the DMK, the BJP and the Left parties, as official amendments. At a meeting of senior Cabinet ministers convened by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday, it was decided that...

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