India

The VC hasn’t yet given in to the students’ demand of having an audience with them

Their land was acquired for a commercial project in 2003 and they haven’t been compensated or rehabilitated yet

As the state administration tries to decide on a plan of action while being under the President’s Rule, farmer collectives set to begin protests for compensation.

While the number of AES/JE patients has gone down, acute febrile illness patients have seen an alarming rise.

Student unions, civil society groups, and political parties from the north-eastern states are rallying against the revised Bill set to be introduced in the Parliament’s winter session.

Abdul Jabbar was shy of seeking funds. The advice by his friends to create a corpus (for which many of his well-wishers had expressed their eagerness to contribute) was always dismissed by him with cynicism

Remember when Mamata Banerjee had said, ‘I’m your paharadar, nobody can displace you from Bengal’? Well, her true intentions are now under the scanner as her government is in the process of building two detention camps, apparently for accommodating just 110 under trial foreign nationals.

If you ever believed in angels, this would certainly renew your belief. One of the many things that keep us going is that despite of all the evil, there is still some good in the world. One such good Samaritan, Dilip Das, the headmaster of a school in Tripura travelled all the way to Assam to submit documents that ultimately led to a woman being freed from the detention centre and being declared a citizen by a Foreigners Tribunal.

Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.comIt is over three months that the...

The government’s veiled efforts to completely clamp down human rights activists in India has now become quite apparent.