-The Hindu   The Full Commission of the National Human Rights Commission will hear on Monday a petition filed by some Kerala MPs alleging a “threat to life and liberty” of the people of the State and seeking its intervention in the Mullaperiyar dam row. The MPs, including P.T. Thomas and K.P. Dhanapalan (both Congress) and Jose K. Mani (Kerala Congress-M), claimed that the entire State was panic-stricken over the possible collapse of...

-The Telegraph   Dispur today said it was open to hold discussions with the anti-dam activists, a section of whom began a fresh agitation in Lakhimpur town this morning when a vehicle carrying machinery for the Subansiri hydel power project tried to proceed towards the project site in Dhemaji. Protests began when a truck carrying a “big machine” for the project left Thelamara in Sonitpur district yesterday morning and reached Lakhimpur town around...

-EPW   Will the blatant discrimination against Muslims in the administration of justice ever end? The word secular was inserted into the Preamble of the Indian Constitution by the 42nd amendment in 1976; later on, the Supreme Court, in S R Bommai vs Union of India, held (in 1994) that secularism was an integral part of the basic structure of the Constitution. And yet, it has been a long time coming – Indian...

Irom Sharmila, 39 year old woman of Manipur has completing her 11th year of her hunger strike on 4th November 2011. She has been fasting to repeal the Armed Forces Special Power act 1958(AFSPA 1958). Against this act, 12 mother of Manipur had challenged the government of India by showing their body without any clothes in public on 15 July 2004. A student’sleader PabemChitaranjan self-emulated himself on the independence day...

-The Hindu   A report submitted by a Kolkata hospital, which examined tribal teacher Soni Sori, who was allegedly ToRtured by the Chhattisgarh police, has said two stones were found in her private parts and rectum. Anguished at the report, a Bench of Justices Altamas Kabir and S.S. Nijjar of the Supreme Court on Friday sought the Chhattisgarh government's response. It also directed the State government to shift her to the Raipur jail...