But existing campaign should be built around land, water, forests: activist P.V. Rajagopal Narmada Bachao Andolan leader and Team Anna core committee member Medha Patkar on Tuesday said there was no move to start a parallel anti-corruption movement. She was reacting to a news story inThe Hindu quoting renowned water conservationist Rajendra Singh about the possibility of a new anti-corruption group emerging, following a meeting of water sector workers at the Gandhi...
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RTE drive starts today, UP out
-The Times of India With barely a few months left for the crucial Uttar Pradesh polls, the state government is reading motive in all initiatives unveiled by the Congress-led government at the Centre. UP, which is among the worst performing states in elementary education, will be the only state to miss out on sensitizing the massive countrywide year-long campaign on the Right to Education (RTE), which starts on Friday - the...
More »Maruti set to get a new union by Sumant Banerji
After three months of workers' agitations, 30 workers leaving their jobs and the worst-ever quarterly financials, India's largest carmaker, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd, may see a new union at its Manesar factory. A new team of workers on Friday filed a fresh application for registering the 'Maruti Suzuki Employees Union' to the haryana Labour department, a process earlier scuttled in July. But this time there is tacit support from the management...
More »Maruti Suzuki’s Manesar plant workers apply for re-registration of union
-The Economic Times Snubbed by former union leaders, workers at Maruti Suzuki's Manesar plant have submitted an application to the haryana labour department to register a new union. "They have filed the application and we have got the written statement on Saturday. This union will not have an external affiliation, which is the key point of departure," said a Maruti Suzuki official. The management was clear from the beginning that it won't accept...
More »Supreme Court expresses serious concern over fake encounters
-The Hindu The Supreme Court has expressed serious concern over fake encounters by the police and said “tolerance of police atrocities would amount to acceptance of systemic subversion and erosion of the rule of law”. Upholding the life sentence awarded to four Punjab Police officers who were responsible for kidnap and killing of a human rights activist, a Bench of Justices P. Sathasivam and B.S. Chauhan said: “Police atrocities are always violative...
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