-PTI Hyderabad: A senior woman office-bearer of the human rights body, People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), was Arrested here on Sunday for allegedly posting "objectionable" comments on her Facebook account against Tamil Nadu Governor and a local Congress MLA, the police said on Sunday. Jaya Vindhayala, the PUCL general secretary of Andhra Pradesh, was apprehended from Padmarao Nagar under section 66A of the Information Technology (IT) Act for allegedly posting the...

-The Indian Express Chandigarh: Perturbed over the recurring instances of sexual harassment of teenaged girls, panchayats of six villages in Haryana's Mahendergarh district have decided not to send their girls to school from Monday. The decision, taken on Friday by the panchayats, which met at Pal village, will affect 400 girl students. The meeting was chaired by a retired DSP, Amar Singh. According to reports, the panchayats called for a meeting following two...

-The Hindustan Times Adhering to Mao Tse-Tung's guerrilla warfare style of surrounding urban centres from the countryside, Communist Party of India (Maoist) has unleashed a long-term grand plan of expansion. Their target is the restive northeast where they plan to build their presence steadily in villages. "The plan is five-pronged and is centred on building up support networks in the villages of Assam and Tripura as of now. Then it will move...

-The Hindu   Bhubaneswar: Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti leader Abhay Sahu was Arrested from near Biju Patnaik Airport here on Saturday. Mr. Sahu was Arrested for his alleged involvement in a case relating to the death of three persons in a bomb blast at Patana village in the area earmarked for the proposed Posco steel plant on March 2. Jagatsinghpur District Superintendent of Police Satyabrata Bhoi said the anti-Posco leader was Arrested while he...

-The Hindustan Times Patna: Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh has called for "serious government response" and "monitoring at the highest level" in the cases of violent attacks on whistleblowers in Bihar. He said his ministry was working on a ‘protocol' for whistleblowers, and that would soon be applicable to the entire country. In a letter to chief minister Nitish Kumar, Ramesh said whistleblowers and their families were facing constant torture and...