-New Indian Express The SP of Sundergarh district of Odisha has admitted before the NHRC that a tribal senior citizen and three women were forced to walk nude in a procession to all the nearby hamlets of Kiralaga, a village under Talsara police station.The SP submitted his report after the NHRC issued notice to the DGP on a petition filed by Supreme Court lawyer and rights activist Radhakanta Tripathy in this...
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Supreme Court raises Posco hopes on iron ore- Gaurav Jain and Ruchira Singh
-Live Mint Court says government should decide allocation of captive mine; move could lead to protests by rival steel makers New Delhi/Mumbai: A Supreme Court (SC) order on Friday raised the prospect that Posco's showcase $12 billion (`65,400 crore today) steel project in Orissa, stalled for at least six years, could be allocated a captive iron ore mine, but experts said such a move could lead to protests by other firms...
More »Germany seeks clemency for Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar -Shubhajit Roy
-The Indian Express Almost a month after the Supreme Court dismissed convicted Khalistani terrorist Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar's plea that his death sentence be commuted to life imprisonment, German President Joachim Gauck and Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle have written to their Indian counterparts seeking clemency for Bhullar. Bhullar, who was convicted for the 1993 car bomb blast outside the Youth Congress office in the capital in which nine people were killed, was...
More »Balancing soil nutrients -Satish Chander
-The Hindu Business Line Mother Nature possesses bountiful natural resources. After all, it is not for nothing that our planet is today supporting a seven billion human population, besides a large number of other living beings with varying survival requirements. Till around the end of the 19th century, agriculture, in the form it was practised, provided more or less enough food to sustain the human population of that time. This is...
More »Cobrapost exposes 10 more banks
-The Times of India Investigative website Cobrapost has released further secret tapes to show alleged money laundering by more banks. In the third part of its tapes, Cobrapost claimed that it has recorded officials of Bank of India, Central Bank of India, Bank of Maharashtra, Allahabad Bank and Bank of Baroda, all major public sector banks, as well as IndusInd Bank, ING Vysya Bank, HDFC Bank , ICICI Bank and Axis Bank,...
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