-The Hindu National Committee in Solidarity with Jaitapur Struggle writes to PM The National Committee in Solidarity with Jaitapur Struggle — a group of like minded political people opposed to setting up nuclear power projects in the country — has asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to cancel the proposed nuclear plant at Jaitapur. Citing concerns over the safety of the proposed nuclear reactors at Jaitapur and the financial credentials of the French company...
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Kiran Bedi skips Kejriwal-led protest, frowns upon attacking BJP -Himanshi Dhawan
-The Times of India The gloves are off within erstwhile Team Anna with one of its core members Kiran Bedi, conspicuous by her absence at Sunday's protest, coming out in support of the BJP in sharp contrast to her colleagues. In a statement on Sunday evening explaining why she did not attend the protest, Bedi said the activists "needed" the prime opposition party to put effective systems in place. This was in...
More »Leaders urge Manmohan Singh to scrap Areva’s contract for Jaitapur project
-The Times of India Politicians involved with the National Committee in Solidarity with Jaitapur Struggle have written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking cancellation of the contract with French company Areva for supplying nuclear reactors to the project. The letter, written by CPM general secretary Prakash Karat, senior Leader Sitaram Yechury, CPI Leaders AB Bardhan and D Raja, Lok Janshakti Party chief Ramvilas Paswan, JD (S) Leader Danish Ali and Telugu Desam...
More »No central repository, DNA profiling facility to trace missing children-Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar
-The Hindu Imperative to collect and analyse data in such cases India calls them its future. But as lakhs of children are kidnapped across the country each year, pushed into sex or organ trade or bonded labour, precious little is being done to find and restore them to their parents. For these children, it is living through the worst nightmare. Getting lost in markets and seeing strange faces all around may put a...
More »“No one really looks for poor man’s missing child’’-Bindu Shajan Perappadan
-The Hindu “The child of the poor who goes missing is just a number in the police record, it is only when a rich man’s child goes missing that the media, the police and the politicians really bother,’’ says Raj Kumar, who along with his wife continue to wait for the return of their eight-year-old daughter Kajol who went missing in April 2010 from in front of her house in Nangloi...
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