The BJP leaders in West Bengal are under the limelight for allegedly holding weapons - and even threatening the police and locking them up, during the Ram Navami processions in the state.
Hours after the Congress demanding repolling in 47 booths in the conflict-ridden state on April 20, alleging that booths were captured and Elections were rigged, the ECI had ordered a repoll in 11 booths of the state; Incidents of firing, intimidation, destruction of EVMs at some polling stations and allegations of booth capturing were reported from conflict-hit Manipur on the scheduled day of the first round of poll on April 19
An edited compendium of five varied fact-finding reports is released in Mumbai and Delhi on April 18: with the bitter Manipur ethnic conflict almost a year old and the complicity of the state and union governments clear, the effort is to draw attention, again to the fall out and consequence and renew cries for substantive justice
Eight-four year old Lalitha Ramdas (Lolly to the wider community) has in a short and pithy communication urged the Election Commission of India (ECI) to act swiftly against Prime Minister, Narendra Modi for his divisive speech made at Banswara, Rajasthan on April 22, pointing out that this is a violation of the MCC, Representation of People’s Act and Indian criminal law
In his April 21 rally in Banswara, Rajasthan, Modi had said that Congress manifesto says that gold of mothers and sisters will be distributed among Muslims, the complaints against the speech was filed by CJP, ADR’s Jagdeep S. Chhokar and the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation
The United Students of India have strongly condemned the debarring and suspension of Dalit scholar Ramadas from TISS; Ramdas is also a leader of the PSF
Exploring the inherent patriarchal attitudes that govern Indian government policies on family planning, the author, a renowned specialist argues how the focus, timing and methods must be on encouraging men to perform vasectomies rather than the more commonly performed intrusive tubectomy on women and specifically advocates more robust all-round efforts than the token November 21-December 4, government observed Vasectomy Fortnight