On the world's longest hunger strike, Irom Sharmila has completed ten years of fasting over human rights abuses in Manipur and promises to continue. Silently but forcefully, she is highlighting the rarely reported decade-long insurgency in Manipur and the government's response to it with Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), something she opposes. Irom Sharmila Chanu is a poet, a writer and an activist. She was brought to the jail ward of...
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In UP village, she wins ‘fight for democracy’
It was an achievement that Uttar Pradesh’s Majhwara village cherished, calling it a victory of ballot over bullet. A day after the cremation of her husband — revenue inspector Ram Kumar Yadav — Kamla Yadav won the election for the post of the pradhan of this village in Sultanpur district. Ram Kumar was kidnapped and murdered after the October 11 polling. He was targetted — allegedly by BSP legislator Chandrabhadra Singh alias...
More »Fresh allegations of sexual assault by security forces in Chhattisgarh by Aman Sethi
A young woman carries a torn blouse and an undergarment and a lock of her hair in a clear plastic bag that rarely leaves her side. Kunjami Mangli (name changed) of the Bade Bidme panchayat in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district preserves these items as evidence of the events of the night of October 12. “Four uniformed policemen burst into my house at 2 a.m.,” said Mangli, speaking through a translator. “They ripped...
More »Violence marks phase III, two die
In spite of all the claims made by the State Election Commission (SEC) to ensure peaceful elections, violence marked the third phase of polling in the panchayat elections. Two persons died on Friday, taking the toll in panchayat poll-related violence to 26. Two others, meanwhile, died after consuming liquor allegedly distributed by a candidate for the post of pradhan in Bijnor district’s Nahtaur. The State Election Commission said by 6 pm nearly...
More »Staff of microfinance companies held on harassment charge
The Andhra Pradesh Police on Friday said it has Arrested three people working with SKS Microfinance and Spandana on a complaint of harassment by a borrower, and might book the companies' respective promoters Vikram Akula and Padmaja Reddy under a new Ordinance to check coercive methods of loan recovery. The borrower, Ammulu, filed the complaint with the Yemmiganur police station in Kurnool district, about 270 km from Hyderabad, last night. A...
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