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http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/branded-for-life/article5154690.ece?homepage=true Branded for life by VIDYA SUBRAHMANIAM It is a familiar pattern, from Malegaon and Mecca Masjid, to Dilsukhnagar. Whenever there is an act of terror, Muslim suspects are quickly arrested. Torture is common. And even if they are acquitted, the police shadow never disappears. The Hyderabad police came for Mohammad Rayeesuddin on February 24, […]

http://www.countercurrents.org/subbarao210913.htm Have American Nuclear Companies Trapped Indian Prime Minister? By Buddhi Kota Subbarao. Ph.D. 21 September, 2013 Countercurrents.org Why the American nuclear companies continue to voice concerns about India’s Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Law? This question becomes more baffling when the American nuclear giant Westinghouse, which claims that its latest design of AP 1000 […]

Statement by Srijan Lokhit Samiti Illegal Arrests in Singrauli (Madhya Pradesh): Under The Scanner of CBI for Irregularities, Reliance in Connivance with the Local Administration Resorts To Human Rights Abuses Singrauli: September 20, 2013: Srijan Lokhit Samiti condemns the arrest of the local leader Sati Prasad Razak from Siddhi Khurdha village who heads Sasan Ultra […]

Date – 25 September 2013, Wednesday Subject – Privatization of the higher education and the current four-year undergraduate programme (FYUP) Place – Gandhi Peace Foundation (GPF), IIO chowk, Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg, New Delhi The new economic policies, implemented in 1991, started showing there aftermath then only. Right from their implementation these policies have made […]

A Statement by Shramjivi Pahal [The following is a translation of the original Hindi text, which appears below. – Ed] Since last two weeks, rural areas of Muzaffarnagar and its neighbouring districts are simmering with communal strife. Although it has subsided to an extent in the last few days but tensions still prevails in the […]

by Bela Bhatia (Source : EPW) Recent judgments of the Bihar High Court have acquitted the perpetrators of organised massacres of dalits and other oppressed groups. What is public knowledge could not be proved in the court of law. It is now over a year since the high court judgment in the Bathani Tola case […]

by Bela Bhatia (Source : EPW) Recent judgments of the Bihar High Court have acquitted the perpetrators of organised massacres of dalits and other oppressed groups. What is public knowledge could not be proved in the court of law. It is now over a year since the high court judgment in the Bathani Tola case […]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/19/business/americas-sinking-middle-class.html America’s Sinking Middle Class By EDUARDO PORTER In some respects, 1988 has the feel of an alien, distant era. There was no such thing as the World Wide Web then. The Soviet Union was still around; the Berlin Wall still standing. Americans elected a Republican president who would raise taxes to help tame the […]

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/power-producers-make-a-killing-on-giveaway/-coal/article5147147.ece?homepage=true Power producers make a killing on giveaway coal Shalini Singh Ministry of Power documents reveal that the government has consistently failed to protect consumers from high electricity tariffs witnessed since 2007, despite being aware of the huge profit margins earned by power producers thanks to captive coal allotments at throwaway prices. Private power producers […]

Disha invites you to a discussion on Rise of Communalism: How to encounter it? 20 September, Friday, 2pm Lawn Opposite IRCTC canteen, Arts Faculty, Delhi University. दिशा आपको आमंत्रित करता है मौजूदा साम्प्रदायिकता का उभार: इसका मुकाबला कैसे करें? २० सितम्बर, शुक्रवार, २ बजे लॉन, आई आर सी टी सी कैंटीन के सामने, आर्ट्स फेकल्टी, […]