-The Hindu A former Indian police Service official, Amod Kanth, has been organising interface sessions between senior Delhi police officers and juvenile delinquents as part of a reform programme that among other things aims at drawing the two sides together. His non-government organisation ‘Prayas’ is currently organising programmes for 100 juveniles to help the State understand the motive behind crimes and to curb their recurrence. “The programme has 25 per cent juveniles...

-The Times of India With violence against Indian women on the rise, the debate over feminist politics and its relevance has acquired new importance. Academic Nivedita Menon has researched this in Seeing Like A Feminist. Speaking with Amrita Nandy, Menon discussed the role and energy of feminism today, how rape and dress are analysed by convention versus feminism — and how feminism eventually liberates women, even from being feminists: * You write...

-Outlook Shillong: Five coal mine labourers were killed when a cable of coal-laden trolley snapped mid-way in a coal pit in remote East Jaintia Hills district, police said today. The incident took place last Friday night at around 9 pm at Umpleng Cement area located along the Saipung-Khliehriat border in the district, they said. The mishap took place after the cables pulling up the trolley containing coal snapped sending it plummeting down. After...

-The Indian Express We must ask hard questions of these mobilisations, before we declare them a new politics It is certainly not an easy task to enter into an argument with Yogendra Yadav. His plea to understand the “new politics” of urban protests (‘This new politics’, IE, January 2) makes persuasive reading but begs for a critical review of some issues. His point about the need to avoid two extreme approaches to...

-The Hindu Investigations reveal that one of the accused has been running the racket for the past five years Bangalore: Intensifying investigations into the illegal kidney transplantation racket, involving government officials and major hospitals in the city that has been busted, the Ramanagaram district police detained a few more persons for questioning on Thursday. The detained persons are part of the kidney sale network thriving in and around Bangalore. A senior police officer, who...