Delhi residents, unorganised & informal workers face biometric profiling by Aadhaar/UID: Activist

Press release Delhi residents, unorganised & informal workers face biometric profiling by Aadhaar/UID Aadhaar/UID is an assault on privacy and citizens rights, it should be boycotted   Sheila Dikshit’s budget speech ignores Punjab… Read More

Remembering Chinua Achebe

Rupen Ghosh is a Delhi-based senior GoI officer with a keen interest in arts and literature. Imaginative literature does not enslave; it liberates the mind of man. Its truth is not like the… Read More

The text of Anti-sexual harassment Bill passed by Indian Parliament

Indian Parliament on March 21, 2013, Thursday passed the anti-rape Bill with Rajya Sabha approving it with voice vote in the same form as it was passed by Lok Sabha two days ago.… Read More

‘Chief Minister complicit in environmental lawlessness in the national capital’: Activists

Press release Delhi Govt’s budget ignores adverse public health consequences, promotes toxic waste based power plants      Chief Minister complicit in environmental lawlessness in the national capital   Disregarding bitter opposition to toxic… Read More

President Chavez: A 21st Century Renaissance Man

James Petras is a retired Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York and adjunct professor at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada who has published prolifically on… Read More

The new pope

Lucia Newman, based in Buenos Aires, is Al Jazeera’s Latin America editor. I was interested to read that before going to Rome for the election of the new pope, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio told… Read More

China replaces UK as world’s fifth largest arms exporter

SIPRI press release, Stockholm, 18 March 2013 China has become the fifth largest exporter of major conventional arms worldwide, according to new data on international arms transfers published today by the Stockholm International… Read More

Bihar MLAs who did not ask questions in the State Assembly/विधायकों ने सवाल नहीं पूछने की ज़हमत नहीं उठाई

Bihar MLAs who did not ask questions in the State Assembly The total nos. of members in the Bihar Legislative Assembly: 243 बिहार विधान सभा की कुल संख्या: 243 जिन विधायकों ने विधान… Read More

50 Truths about Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution

Dr. Salim Lamrani is a lecturer at Paris Sorbonne Paris IV University and Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée University and French journalist, specialist on relations between Cuba and the US . He has just published Cuba:… Read More

STATEMENT ON THE MURDER OF ANTIPOSCO ACTIVISTS

Some related links: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=565aksMHUAA http://www.facebook.com/odishaconcerns —————————————————————— We the undersigned are outraged and distressed over the latest turn of events in the antiposco struggle villages of jagatsinghpur district Odisha. On 6:30 pm on 2nd… Read More

Punjab & Haryana High Court finds application of Unique Identification (UID)/Aadhaar legally questionable

Citizens Form for Civil Liberties (CFCL) Press Release/ New Delhi, March 4, 2013 Punjab & Haryana High Court finds application of Unique Identification (UID)/Aadhaar legally questionable Executive order for Biometric UID ‘Cards’ withdrawn  … Read More