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Rape cases double, molestation up 4 times in Delhi -J Venkatesan

-The Hindu New Delhi: Rape cases in Delhi have almost doubled in 2013 as compared to last year while molestation has gone up by nearly four times during the same period. These stark facts were revealed to the Supreme Court on Wednesday. The capital recorded 1,330 rape incidents till October 15 this year as against 706 in 2012. Molestation cases have gone up from 727 in 2012 to 2,844. Additional Solicitor General...

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Headlines Today cameras capture trucks diverting PDS wheat meant for Delhi's poor to private flour mills -Harish Sharma and Arun Singh

-India Today   The UPA government and the Congress leadership might be patting themselves on the back talking big about the recently passed Food Security Bill, but their promises look far from delivery given the existing state of Public Distribution System (PDS). In a sting operation carried out by Headlines Today special investigation team, hidden cameras caught the pilferage of grain meant for distribution among the national capital's poor people under the PDS....

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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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Midday meal mess: SC notice to Centre, states -Dhananjay Mahapatra

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday asked the Centre and states to respond to two PILs seeking an independent probe into midday meal scheme-related deaths and alleged laxity in enforcing guidelines to ensure healthy food in the welfare scheme. The PILs - by an NGO through advocate Shobha and another by Sanjeeb Panigrahi - said they were approaching the court "in the wake of horrifying incidents of...

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Uniting the Nation: Asghar Ali Engineer’s Struggle for Preservation of Plural Ethos-Ram Puniyani

-Countercurrents.org   The events of last over two decades have shown us, more than before that the efforts of dividing the nation by communal forces have been a major obstacle to social peace and process of development. In India while the communal violence began with the Jabalpur riot of 1961, it is from last couple of decades especially from 1980s that the divisive politics has tried to drive a wedge between different...

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