-The Times of India Activist Aruna Roy has sought UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi's intervention to end the fast undertaken by fellow activist MedhaPatkar in Mumbai to protest the demolition of slums. "I want to reiterate the urgency of this matter, given both the democratic imperative and in light of Medha's failing health and thus request your immediate personal intervention in this matter," Roy said in a letter to Sonia. According to Roy, Union...
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"Now they have food, but no books"-Ramya Kannan
-The Hindu Books will soon be procured for all the children, says district coordinator of SSA Tiruvallur: Asish Mehra SITs in the front row of his class, flipping through his notebook. There is hardly any space between the Oriya letters, as if he is desperately trying to save paper. It is his only notebook, and it turns out Asish is indeed trying to make the paper last. He is one of the many...
More »Away from home, Manmohan Singh admits to gender insecurity in India-Vidya Subrahmaniam
-The Hindu ‘We have drafted a Bill to deal with violence against women' Berlin: India on Thursday found itself once again in the dock on its high maternal and child mortality rates. The embarrassment happened in full view of the world press which had assembled to hear Manmohan Singh and Angela Merkel on the outcomes of the Indo-German Inter-Governmental Consultations. Replying to a specific question by a German journalist, the Prime Minister admitted...
More »No alternative to Mamata: Mahasweta Devi
-IANS Condemning the treatment meted out to the West Bengal chief minister in Delhi, eminent writer and activist Mahasweta Devi Thursday said there was no alternative to Mamata Banerjee. "As a chief minister, I do not see any alternative to her. Those who have been opposing her are increasingly getting isolated from the common man," Mahasweta Devi told mediapersons here. Praising Banerjee for her endeavour to fulfill the commitments made to the people,...
More »Maharashtra villagers protest against DMIC project
-The Hindu Around 72 villages from Maharashtra's Raigad district have started a SIT-in demonstration in front of the tehsil office in Mangaon against the multi-billion-dollar ambitious Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC). . The villagers who began the agitation on Wednesday will hold dharna against the acquiSITion of 67,000 acres of land from these 72 villages. Each village will submit its letter of oppoSITion to the project in the government office during the dharna...
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