-The Hindustan Times Women hold up half the sky. But evidence suggests that more than half the sky is crushing women, particularly poor women. These days, women struggling to retain their lives and livelihoods against POSCO's proposed plant, in Jagathsingpur, Orissa, are experiencing this first hand. They get beaten and threatened, their demands ignored. In Govindpur village, the tension is palpable, as the confrontation has been violent for some time now. So angry are...
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Implementation of RTE Act poor in state, say activists -Puja Pednekar
-The Hindustan Times Maharashtra has done a poor job of implementing the Right to Education (RTE) Act, said educationists, as the legislation completes three years on Monday. Activists said the state has not enforced more than 40% of the Act's provisions. To meet the March 31, 2013, Supreme Court deadline for the implementation of the Act, the education department hurriedly issued two government resolutions in February and March - the...
More »No rural polls without central forces in Kolkata
-The Hindustan Times There would be no panchayat polls without central forces, the State Election Commission (SEC) made this clear to the Mamata Banerjee administration on Thursday, even though Trinamool leaders and ministers continued to resist the move, saying that, ultimately, law and order is the responsibility of the state government. Senior SEC officials told HT they had opted for the central armed forces since this was a tried and tested method...
More »My mother deserves pardon if Dutt does: blasts convict's daughter -Mohan K Korappath
-The Hindustan Times Daughter of 1993 blasts convict Zaibunnisa Kazi, Shagufta, is set to pull out all stops to try and prevent her mother from going back to jail. In wake of the hue and cry over support for actor Sanjay Dutt from the crème de la crème of the society, Shagufta entered into the fray arguing that if Dutt could be pardoned, so could her mother, as both had been convicted...
More »Cash-for-cards policy draws ire
-The Hindustan Times The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday criticised the Delhi government's move of linking the monthly cash assistance doled out to Kashmiri migrants to Aadhaar cards and asked the authorities to reconsider its decision. The party's leader of opposition VK Malhotra, condemning the move, termed the "unjustified" decision as a ploy of the government to strip the migrants of their Kashmiri identity. "The Delhi government is trying to force the...
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