PROTESTS AND PETITIONS

Has prohibition done any good in Wardha?

An open letter to governor of Maharashtra K Sankaranarayan from Irmel V. Marla (Sociologist/Anthropologist) Chairperson IIHRVA, Vice Chairperson RBHFI and Dr. Kamal Taori, (IAS rtd., Economist) Secretary RBHFI, Partner & Advisor IIHRVA,

‘Post 9/11 attacks, Muslims around the world are viewed with suspicion`

Angry Muslim youths hooted and heckled National Conference (NC) president and Union minister for new and renewable energy Farooq Abdullah for sermonising and not giving a solution. Abdullah was addressing a conference on ‘Politics of terror,

J&K employees hold anti-govt protests at Raj Bhavan

Government employees of Jammu and Kashmir today held a protest demonstration at the Raj Bhavan here demanding an increase in retirement age and regularisation of daily wagers. The demonstration was led by Joint Consultative Committ

J and K govt employees to go on three-day strike from May 24

The Jammu and Kashmir Government Employees Association today announced a three-day strike in protest against the government`s failure to fulfil their demands of increase in retirement age and regularisation of daily wagers. "We

Intelligentsia writes to PM on Prof Ray`s detention

Eminent academicians and scientists have written to prime minsiter Manmohan Singh about the recent detention of Professor Partho Sarothi Ray, a renowned scientist in Kolkata. They have condemned Mamata Banerjee`s act and said the treatment meted o

Union ministers meet ailing Ganga activist

In a show of solidarity with the cause of Swami Gyan Swaroop Sanand to make the river Ganga clean, members of the Sabal Bharat group did a sit-in protest on Tuesday at the private ward gate of All India Institute of Medical Sciences.

`Remove pro-nuclear M R Srinivasan from panel`: PMANE

 The anti-nuclear forum spearheading the stir against Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project today demanded removal of former Atomic Energy Commission chief M R Srinivasa

Nana Patekar`s cook on fast

A 32-year-old man quit the job of a cook with film actor Nana Patekar in Mumbai and is on dharna at Jantar Mantar here since January 9 to prove that he is alive, sitting with a placard in Hindi which reads: "Main zinda hun." His struggle

PMANE activists boycott talks after clash with pro-KNPP outfit

Anti-Koodankulam activists and a Hindu outfit supporting its commissioning clashed in Tirunelveli on Tuesday forcing an a

Pandit youths to sit on chain hunger strike from Jan 28

Lashing out at the state government for not filling up 1,562 government posts sanctioned by the prime minister, kashmiri pandit youths on wednesday threatened to resort to a chain hunger strike in Jammu from January 28 if their demands were not me

Org meets Chavan, draws attention to gas victims` need

Two organisations working for victims of the Bhopal Gas tragedy have in a joint letter to Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, drew his attention to numerous pending tasks which need to be undertaken for the victims. Conven

Mullaperiyar Dam: Agitation council chief removed

Sharp differences in the local campaign group agitating for a new dam at Mullaperiyar for the last five years has come to the fore with the removal of its chairman C P Roy by other members of the Mullaperiyar Samara Samithi. According to S

AMUTA writes to PM

The AMU Teachers` Association (AMUTA) made a representation to the prime minister on Monday, requesting  to stall the programme of inauguration of AMU Mallapuram Centre scheduled for December 24. Here is their letter, and all the referred ann

Daily wagers strike work demanding regularisation

Hundreds of daily wage workers of Jammu and Kashmir Power Development Department (PDD) today struck work protesting the government`s failure to regularise their services and asked Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to intervene in the matter.

Lawyers` strike enters 13th day in Jammu

Lawyers today held demonstrations in Jammu and Kashmir court complex here as their strike against transfer of land registration work from judiciary to revenue department entered 13th consecutive day today. Shouting anti-government s

Activists hold candlelight vigil against woman`s death

Civil society activists on Thursday held a candle light vigil here to protest against the death of a woman who was found hanging in her in-laws` house on the Srinagar`s outskirts last month. Demanding justice for Shazia Majeed, a gold meda

Police lathicharge protesting teachers in Chandigarh

Police lathicharged protesting teachers and arrested three of them when they tried to gherao Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal during a function at Muktsar district in Chandigarh. A few of the Education Guarantee Scheme (EGS) teach

Protest against blackmarketing of helicopter tickets

Shiv Sena and Dogra Front on Monday staged a joint protest against the alleged blackmarketing of tickets of helicopters ferrying pilgrims to the Mata Vaishnodevi cave shrine situated in Trikuta hills of Jammu and Kashmir. Over 200 activist

Lawyers withdraw sit-in agitation, boycott of court continues

Lawyers in Coimbatore, who were boycotting the courts and indulging in sit-in infront of the office of SP for the past fortnight, on Monday withdrew their agitation demanding the arrest of five police personnel, who had assaulted one of their coll

Eco blockade enters 86th day today in Manipur

The crippling economic blockade on two national highways in Manipur entered the 86th day on Tuesday with the organisers adamant on not lifting it even as prices of essential commodities continued to soar. The Sadar Hills District De

Visionary Talk: Amitabh Gupta, Pune Police Commissioner with Kailashnath Adhikari, MD, Governance Now


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