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,
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,
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
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
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
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.
The anti-nuclear forum spearheading the stir against Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project today demanded removal of former Atomic Energy Commission chief M R Srinivasa
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
Anti-Koodankulam activists and a Hindu outfit supporting its commissioning clashed in Tirunelveli on Tuesday forcing an a
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
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
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
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
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 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
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 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
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 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
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