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No change in global food prices after months of decline, UN agency says

-The United Nations World food prices are steady after three months of decline with increased prices for oil and Fats balancing out lower cereal and sugar prices, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today said. FAO’s Food Price Index – which measures monthly changes in international prices of a basket of meat, dairy, cereals, oils and Fats, and sugar – remained at 210 points in January, same as in December. The...

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Breaking The Silence -Human Rights Watch

-Outlook While great awareness has been raised about sexual violence against women in India, much less is known about the problem of sexual abuse of children' Summary The rape and murder of a student in New Delhi on December 16, 2012, followed by large public protests, has led to a great deal of soul searching about the problem of sexual violence in India. Politicians, lawyers, women’s rights activists, and an independent government...

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Three Dalit men murdered in apparent case of honour killing -Alok Deshpande

-The Hindu One of them fell in love with an upper caste girl, whose Father is one of the accused. The police are yet to file a chargesheet in the case. Malegaon (Nashik): The first day of this year took Maharashtra down to a new low. Adding to the growing list of atrocities against Dalits, three young men were killed, allegedly by a mob of upper caste men to keep their family’s...

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The Riddles of Ashis Nandy by Vijay Prashad

-Counterpunch.org     “The rearing and guiding of a civilization must depend upon its intellectual class.”     BR Ambedkar, Ranade, Gandhi and Jinnah, 1943, Delhi. I. Arrest. States are clumsy with their enormous power. When it suits the modern state, it uses it immense apparatus to constraint those who make claims upon it or who say things that denigrate this or that section of society. A college professor in West Bengal draws a cartoon of...

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Why can't they sing? Kashmir uproar over Fatwa on girl band

-ANI Srinagar : A day after the Fatwa (decree) issued by Grand Mufti of Jammu and Kashmir, Bashiruddin Ahmad, against the girl-band, the associated with the rock-band have decided to call it quits. Mufti Bashiruddin Ahmad on Sunday had issued a decree terming singing as ‘un-Islamic’ and ‘obscene’. The band named ‘Pragaash’ (morning light) comprises Huma, the lead vocalist and guitarist, Aneeka who plays base and Farah, who is the drummer. However, Jammu and...

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