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• Reservation will not help Muslims, will only open Pandora’s box (Comment)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 730
  By Firoz Bakht AhmedThe way to hell, we are told, is paved with good intentions. The Ranganath Mishra Commission report, tabled in the winter session of parliament, recommends 15 percent reservation for all minorities in government jobs, education and welfare schemes, of which 10 percent quota is for Muslims - the ...
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• India Dalit On Hunger Strike For More Rights In New Economy

  
  BosNewsLife - Christian News Agency — Authority: 426
  By Santosh Digal, BosNewsLife Asia Correspondent NEW DELHI, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- Despite concerns over his health, a prominent human rights activist continued his hunger strike Saturday, December 19, to force the Indian government to reserve jobs in the booming private sector for Dalits, the lowest caste in Indias ...
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• Special Investigations Team Sought in Orissa Violence

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 138
  Acquittals increasingly surpass convictions due to shoddy or corrupt police investigators.NEW DELHI, December 7 (CDN) — Christian leaders in India have called for a special investigations team to counter the shoddy or corrupt police investigations into anti-Christian violence in Orissa state in August-September ...
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• Dalit Solidarity team on tour of Thiruvananthapuram district

  
  Kerala Letter — Authority: 112
  A team of the Dali Solidarity Group is now touring Thiruvananthapuram district to apprise the people of the situation in Varkala and educate them about the conspiracy behind the branding of Dalit Human Rights Movement as a terrorist organization by the local police. On September 23 police had said DHRM was ...
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• Police baton charge on LJP rally

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 730
  Patna, Dec 17 (ANI): Police resorts to baton charge to quell the workers of the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) here on Thursday.The LJP workers were protesting against a special package for the poorest among the Dalits, which, they said, amounted to dividing them.The LJP state president Pashupati Kumar Paras, alleged that ...
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• 15 of Paswan party workers injured in police action

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 730
  Patna, Dec 17 (IANS) At least 15 Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) workers and leaders, including four Bihar legislators, were injured as police used batons to beat back the party’s “Dalit Ekta” march to the state assembly here Thursday.LJP leaders alleged that police used force to suppress the protest against the ...
  4 days ago

• DHRMs protest fast

  
  BHASKAR — Authority: 124
  Responding to a call of Dalit Human Rights Movement, scores of Dalits, mostly women, gathered outside the Government Secretariat in Thiruvananthapuram today to observe a token fast in protest against the atrocities against DHRM members and supporters at Varkala and other places in Kerala. DHRM earned the wrath of ...
  6 days ago

• Commission proposes, government disposes

  
  Kerala Letter — Authority: 112
  B R P BHASKAR Gulf Today The fate of a set of proposals sent to the Kerala government by the State Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Commission illustrates how the political establishment scuttles efforts to address the problems of the weaker sections. The commission, headed by PK Sivanandan, a former IAS ...
  1 week ago

• Human Rights Day eve attack on women’s fact-finding team

  
  BHASKAR — Authority: 124
  Today is International Human Rights Day. It was on this day in 1948 that the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. On the eve of Human Rights Day, an all-woman fact-finding team comprising nine activists, including Madhumitta Dutta and Shweta Narayan (from the Collective in Besant Nagar, ...
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• POSCOs Orissa project: an Open Letter

  
  BHASKAR — Authority: 124
  The following is an Open Letter from the National Centre for Advocacy Studies and Posco Prathirodh Sangram Samiti to POSCO TJ Park Prize Committee, POSCO TZ Park Foundation, Seoul, Korea. Dear Sir, We, people from India and different parts of the world concerned with the protection of human and environmental ...
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• That’s 195 days short of three years and counting

  
  churumuri — Authority: 133
  At the divisional commissioner’s office in Belgaum, the dharna by Mallikarjuna Batagi and his family members has just entered its 901st day. Their demand: justice for the alleged atrocities by caste Hindus at Saravada village in Bijapur Dist in 2007. Photograph : Karnataka Photo News Posted in Issues and ...
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• The Technocrats of India

  
  subMedia — Authority: 414
  I was meandering through a shop a few months ago - one of those hipster places that sells things that make you feel like you’re not really buying but sharing whatever the hell it is that’s caught your eye. My friend, who was similarly meandering about pointed to someone and said to me, “Isaac, America’s the ...
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• mr.tharoors high perch

  
  kufr — Authority: 114
  soumitro das nails it : If you ask a Bollywood filmmaker whether this is actually what he is defending, he will be surprised. He believes that the values he is defending in his film are universal — love, family, country, religion... The word ‘caste’ would never cross his mind. Then how do we say that ...
  2 weeks ago

• IANS Top Stories at 9

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 730
  NATIONALNo peace talks under handcuffs, says ULFA chairman Rajkhowa (Roundup) - Moved at 1915 Manmohan Singh to attend Copenhagen summit - Moved at 1603 Kashmir separatist leader critical; ‘Quiet talks’ will continue: Chidambaram (Roundup) - Moved at 1925 No question of regret over Babri demolition: Mohan Bhagwat ...
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• Six get life for massacring Dalits

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 730
  New Delhi, Dec 5 (IANS) The Supreme Court has sentenced six upper caste men from Uttar Pradesh to life terms for killing seven Dalits 30 years ago.Sentencing the six men after reversing their acquittal by the Allahabad High Court, a bench of Justice Dalveer Bhandari and Justice A.K. Patnaik said: “Unfortunately, the ...
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• Samajwadi Party legislator booked for assaulting Dalits

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 730
  Lucknow, Dec 5 (IANS) A Samajwadi Party legislator and six of his supporters were booked for assaulting Dalits and grabbing their land in Uttar Pradesh’s Sant Ravidas Nagar district, an official said Saturday.“The case against Vijay Mishra, the MLA (legislator) from Gyanpur assembly seat in Sant Ravidas Nagar, and ...
  2 weeks ago

• ..and the wolves lying in wait

  
  kufr — Authority: 114
  mostly upper caste settlers from telangana in the u.s., expressing their solidarity with kcr and telangana students. checked through youtube but couldnt find any uploadable videos of the brutal lathi charge inflicted on the mostly obc, dalit telangana students participating in protest demonstrations in osmania ...
  2 weeks ago

• Social Boycott of Dalits in MP: Uncivil Society, apathetic administration

  
  Kafila — Authority: 420
  (A Fact Finding Report issued by Nagrik Adhikar Manch and Yuva Samvad.) (The situation in the Gadarwara Sub Division of District.Narsinghpur (MP) has been in a state of constant flux since last 3-4 months. The Dalits living in the villages adjoining Gadarwara have been condemned to a life of fear and ...
  3 weeks ago

• sacrificial lambs for a yaagam

  
  kufr — Authority: 114
  kcr doesnt plan any major action without seeking any divine endorsement. he has to attend many pujas, visit several temples and perform a yaagam or two before he can step up to the cameras and announce his plans. the students and agitators who were beaten up by the police yesterday were mostly from the ...
  3 weeks ago

• The poor find Keralas educational system wanting

  
  Kerala Letter — Authority: 112
  While Kerala’s educational system appears to meet the needs of the mainstream, there is grave deficiency, in both quantitative and qualitative terms, in the facilities available to the poor. This was the conclusion of the three-member panel which heard the testimony of five persons – four children and one parent ...
  3 weeks ago

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