The 73-year-old social activist Anna Hazare has decided to go on a “fast unto death” from tomorrow at Jantar Mantar in Delhi to fight corruption, fuelling concern in the Manmohan Singh government at a time the cricket team’s World Cup victory has lifted spirits. The government is worried because it feels that dissuading Hazare this time will be difficult as he had put off his fast on March 5 on the...
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Court asks Food Commissioners to visit Chhattisgarh villages by J Venkatesan
The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed its two Commissioners N.C. Saxena and Harsh Mander and the Collector of Dantewada to visit the villages of Tadmetla, Morapalli and Timapuram in Chhattisgarh, where food scarcity and Hunger Deaths were reported, and to give a report to the court. A Bench of Justice Dalveer Bhandari and Justice Deepak Verma gave this direction during the course of hearing of a petition filed by the People's...
More »SC directs food commissioners to visit Dantewada by Supriya Sharma
The Supreme Court has directed food commissioners N C Saxena and Harsh Mandar to visit three interior villages of Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district along with the collector. This comes on a day when a delegation of 10 Congress MLAs made a bid to reach the villages but were turned back citing 'security concerns', 50 kilometres short of their destination. The three villages - Tadmetla, Morepalli and Teemapuram - have been in the...
More »Manipur women's relay fast enters 935th day by Iboyaima Laithangbam
The relay hunger strike by women in Manipur entered the 935th day on Wednesday. The hunger strike at the office of the Save Sharmila Group here was launched to extend moral support to Irom Sharmila, who has been on a fast-unto-death since November 2, 2000 demanding repeal of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958. “We are disappointed by the lack of response to the protracted fasting by Ms. Sharmila. The volunteers...
More »Dismal: State of the World's Children 2011
A good marker of a country’s progress is the environment in which its children grow up. Prevalence of malnutrition, hunger, unhygienic surroundings and forced child labour cost a country dearly in terms of its real growth. The State of the World's Children 2011 report shows how little is being invested in the future citizens of our world. The theme of this year’s report is “Adolescence: An Age of Opportunity” and...
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