-The Times of India Team Anna's latest spectacle is beset by many contradictions That Team Anna's anti-corruption protests still manage to draw Crowds attests to the extent of the popular anger against official corruption. Anna Hazare, by embarking on an indefinite fast - his fourth since last April - hopes to recapture the vigour of earlier phases of the civil society movement led by him. But that is easier said than done. As...
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School becomes Aadhaar centre, so students forced into corridor-Sumegha Gulati
-The Indian Express The students of a municipal school in South Delhi have been shifted out of their classrooms, into the corridors, as the officials of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) have set up base at the school to implement the Aadhaar scheme. Since May 6, more than 500 students of Class III at the MCD primary school in Sangam Vihar, near Khanpur, have been attending classes in the corridors or...
More »Assam communal violence: Toll rises to 12, army called in
-IANS The death toll in the communal violence in Assam's Bodoland area rose to 12 on Sunday with police recovering three more bodies. The army has been pressed into service to assist the security forces. Apart from the 12 killed due to communal violence, another two people were killed and three other were injured when unidentified gunmen opened fire at the Crowded Mongolian Bazaar market in Chirang district Sunday evening. Police, however, termed...
More »Barun Biswas: An unsung hero-Prithvijit Mitra
-The Times of India It was a rainy July evening ten years ago. A motley group of villagers from Sutia gathered at the local market to protest the spate of rapes that had left the area terrorized. They were angry but terrified of reprisal. And they did not know if anyone would join the fight. Speaking in hushed tones, they distributed leaflets asking people to join the protest. Some took the...
More »Nothing wrong in Mumbai Police imposing ‘right values’-V Gangadhar
-The Hindu A farmhouse at Igatpuri, near Mumbai yielded six skeletons. Expensive flats in posh suburbs at Andheri and Oshiwara were scenes of gruesome murders. Mumbai no longer needs horror movies or comics. Open the newspapers every morning, the horror stories hit you. Not just murder, but decapitation and further mutilation. A disgruntled man thought nothing of bashing to death six members of his family and burying their bodies. The inside...
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