-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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RTI activist alleges harassment by MLA
-The Times of India GURGAON: A local RTI activist, O P Kataria, who has been actively campaigning againstGurgaon MLA Sukhbir Kataria, has accused the latter of harassing him. The MLA is clouded by a controversy over alleged fake voter ID cards in the last assembly elections. According to O P Kataria, about 10 policemen barged into his house on Tuesday morning and tried to fraudulently implicate his wife in a land case. "These...
More »Graft fuels trafficking-Pankaj Sarma
-The Telegraph A US government report has painted a gloomy picture of human trafficking in the Northeast. The US state department’s 2012 Trafficking in Persons Report, released by secretary of state Hillary Clinton yesterday, said there had been a rise in women from the region being subjected to “servile marriages” in states with low female-to-male child sex ratios such as Haryana and Punjab. According to the report, girls from the Northeast are also...
More »Another Dalit dies in Lakshmipet attack incident
-The Hindu Arrest of former MPP Botcha Vasunaidu demanded One more person died on Wednesday in the Lakshmipet incident in which four Dalits were killed while fighting for their rights over leftover lands originally alienated for the construction of Madduvalasa reservoir. Papayya, 55, succumbed to injuries in King George Hospita, Visakhapatnam. With the death of Papayya, the toll went up to five in the attack that occurred on June 12. Meanwhile, several Dalit associations...
More »Parents adopt new methods to kill baby girls-Vimal Bhatia
JAISALMER: The father of a baby girl, who died in suspicious circumstances, was Arrested and sent to judicial custody for 15 days. Police claim that Deen Singh alias Dileep Singh, the father of the girl, deliberately denied her treatment, which led to her death. According to the local medical authorities, members of some communities, infamous for killing baby girls, have now found a new way to make the deaths look 'natural'....
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