-The Hindu Today marks seven years of protests against the Posco project June 22 marks the seventh year of the struggle against the Posco project in Odisha. It was on this day in 2005 that the Odisha government and the South Korean steel company signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for what was stated to be the single biggest case of foreign investment in the country. Though the government has acquired over...
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-The Hindustan Times Human migration is as old as civilisation itself but the magnitude and heterogeneity of migration have seen a phenomenal rise in the last two decades. This story of human populations moving from one end of the world to the other has another leitmotif today: a spurt in migration of women workers. According to a new report - Migration of Women Workers from South Asia to the Gulf - Indian...
More »Camel racing, organ trade behind abduction by V Narayan & Pradeep Gupta
Mention crime, and murder and Rape are the first to strike the mind. But there is another crime that arguably causes similar trauma, yet goes almost unnoticed: abduction. The felony rose by 77% in six years, from 23,991 in 2006 to 42,580 in 2011, according to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). In comparison, murders remained around the 34,000 mark in the corresponding period and Rapes rose by 24% (from 19,348...
More »Haryana cops Raped us: Children's home inmates-Raghav Ohri
-The Indian Express Inmates of the Apna Ghar shelter in Rohtak told a four-member committee that visited them today that they were gangRaped by Haryana Police officials, who made them dance naked and forcibly took them out of the home. According to sources, two of the inmates — one deaf and mute and the other mentally challenged — said that when they got pregnant, the incharge of the home stepped on their...
More »Study shows sharp increase in crime against SC, ST people
-The Hindu Under the PCR Act, 34 cases were registered in 2010 as against 10 in 2009 There has been a marked increase in crimes against people belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in Karnataka in 2010 in comparison to that in 2009, particularly in the cases booked under the Protection of Civil Rights (PCR) Act and the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Prevention of Atrocities Act. According to the ‘Crime...
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