The Trinamool Congress-led government is “suppressing freedom of expression of the people of West Bengal,” litterateur and Magsaysay awardee Mahasweta Devi said here on Monday. “The people's government has come and done something that was unimaginable in the last 64 years. The people have lost their right to assemble and express their opinion at the Metro channel,” said Mahasweta Devi, who, on earlier occasions, had come out in support of Mamata...
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Truth and Justice: Buried in the Ground
-EPW With laws like the AFSPA, when will truth and justice prevail in Jammu and Kashmir? Like all Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) chief ministers after the dreadful years of president’s rule from 1990 to 1996, Omar Abdullah too stands discredited, especially in the wake of the 2010 uprising of the “stone pelters” which was later brutally suppressed. A widely held opinion in the Kashmir Valley is that the chief minister, whether of...
More »7 held for murder of RTI Activist
-The Hindu The Ahmedabad police on Saturday arrested seven persons in connection with the November 5 murder of Congress worker and RTI Activist Nadeem Sayed, a key witness in the Naroda-Patiya massacre case during the 2002 Gujarat riots. Among them was Kalu Gardan, who, it was claimed, knifed Nadeem when he came out of his Juhapura residence. While the motive was still not known, the police earlier detained a builder, Mehboob senior,...
More »Exhuming of graves: Gujarat government maintains Teesta Setalvad as main accused
-The Indian Express Narendra Modi government has justified before the Supreme Court its ongoing probe against social Activist Teesta Setalvad in a case of alleged illegal exhuming of bodies of 2002 Gujarat riot victims, saying that she actually planned and executed digging of graves without permission in 2006. In an affidavit, the Gujarat government claimed that during the investigations involving the accused, including her one time close aide Rai Khan Pathan, and...
More »Jairam Ramesh's controversial Land Bill draws flak by AM Jigeesh
-India Today Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh's pet land acquisition, rehabilitation and resettlement Bill, 2011 has run into major roadblocks in the parliamentary standing committee. Various stakeholders, including farmers' organisations, NGOs and legal experts contend that in its present form, the Bill is an empty shell that exempts 90 per cent major development projects - highways, nuclear plants, mines, SEZs et al-in the name of which, land is being acquired across...
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