-PTI Social activist Anna Hazare on Thursday said he was not afraid of death and dared the government to fire bullets in the event of his going on fast to press for a strong Lokpal Bill. “Anna is not afraid of death. They can fire bullets and not just use lathis to repress our agitation and the people of this country will decide whether India has a democratic rule or a...
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Don't incur court ire again: Vilasrao
-The Hindu Concerned at the Supreme Court's stringent stand on large-scale misappropriation of MGNREGS funds, the Centre on Wednesday warned that officials and districts would be held responsible if the money did not reach beneficiaries of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. At an emergency meeting here of all project directors of the District Rural Development Agency and the chief executive officers of zilla parishads, Rural Development Minister Vilasrao...
More »Speaker's bid fails to break logjam over Women's Bill
-The Hindu She will make yet another attempt before monsoon session A meeting convened by Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar here on Wednesday failed to break the deadlock over the Women's Reservation Bill. The Bill to set aside 33 per cent of the seats in Parliament and State legislatures for women was passed by the Rajya Sabha in March last year, but has been held up in the Lok Sabha amid stiff...
More »Is there a ban on reporting bad news from India? by Andrew Buncombe
It was the writer and activist Arundhati Roy who set foreign Journalists in India busily chattering recently. In an interview with Stephen Moss in the Guardian, Ms Roy was discussing the Maoist and Adavasi “resistance” to encroachment on tribal lands. Mr Moss, asked her why, “we in the West don’t hear about these mini-wars?”. Ms Roy replied: “I have been told quite openly by several correspondents of international newspapers, that...
More »Now, an endangered press by Sevanti Ninan
The murder of Mid-Day's J. Dey is only the tip of the iceberg. If violence against Journalists continues unchecked, can a beleaguered press continue to report the way it should? If they are becoming fair game for everybody, it makes you wonder if the media as a sector really has clout. The lawlessness that is currently manifest in public life is turning out to have another dimension to it. The power...
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