Rights

Proceedings in Parliament got off to a stormy start...

The recent order in the Aarey tree felling case implies that the BMC do not have the permission to cut down more trees in Aarey;according to the civic body they have already cut down the number of trees required!

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.

Bilaspur, Hamirpur, Mandi, Shimla and Solan: In a 225-sq ft room that just about fits a bed, 72-year-old Rinjhin downed a cup of tea prepared on a small kerosene stove and accompanied her husband to a blue bus parked 300 metres downhill from her home in Barog village in Himachal Pradesh’s Solan district.

The Supreme Court last week, by 3:2 majority, decided...

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

The suicide of bright, young scholar Fathima Latheef at...

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

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.