by Abhay Sahoo
Today (October 18, 2000), three of the four members of the Committee set up by the Ministry of Environment and Forests confirmed that the POSCO project is illegal and that all of its clearances were obtained by breaking the law. (...)
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Majority of Posco Enquiry Committee Confirms - POSCO Project Is Illegal
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Simplicity Extraordinaire: S.R. Sankaran (1934-2010)
24 October 2010, by D. BandyopadhyayTRIBUTE
An Indian Airlines flight arrived at the Agartala Airport one late afternoon. It was a full flight. All the passengers scrambled down to pick up their baggage and leave for home. Among them was a short-statured, frail, middle-aged (...) -
Asiad, Akalis and AIR
24 October 2010, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
November nineteenth is Indira Gandhi’s birthday. Normally, her birthday so far has been a very private affair, not an event in the public calendar. Not so this year. If anything, it brings out in bold relief the strange (...) -
UN Security Council Seat Will Test India’s Mettle
24 October 2010, by M K BhadrakumarJoy erupted within the establishment in New Delhi late on Tuesday evening (October 12) as news arrived from New York regarding India’s election to a non-permanent two-year Asian seat in the United Nations Security Council. A dutiful media (...) -
Faith, Fact and the Law in Ayodhya — An Appeal in the National Interest
24 October 2010, by S G VombatkereMost people believe that there is a divine law, the details of which are a matter of faith, since the existence of each person’s God can neither be proved nor disproved. One can only pray, “Ishwar-Allah tero naam, sab ko sanmati de bhagawan” for (...) -
Federal India’s Ideal on Trial in Kashmir
24 October 2010, by Sailendra Nath GhoshTwo momentous developments took place in the second half of September. An all-party delegation of parliamentarians visited Kashmir to study the ground reality at first hand; and following the visit, an eight-point package was announced by the (...) -
State Terrorism in Kashmir Valley
24 October 2010, by Humra QuraishiMUSINGS
[The following piece was sent to us quite sometime ago but could not be used earlier due to unavoidable reasons.]
It pained me to read of Sikhs receiving threats in the Valley and as I sat back wondering the whys to it, I found it almost (...) -
The Kashmir Stalemate
24 October 2010by Sajad Padder
One does not have to be a rocket scientist to understand the importance of the Kashmir issue which has been like a thorn in Indo-Pak relations for over sixty years. How different that relation-ship might have been, had there not (...) -
Activist in Search of an Alternative: Reflections on Contemporary People’s Movements in West Bengal
24 October 2010by Sumit Chowdhury
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,
it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness... we had everything before us, we had nothing before us...
—Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities)
Reflecting on the (...) -
1962: Twenty Years Later
24 October 2010, by Mira Sinha Bhattacharjea[(October 20 this year marks the fortyeighth anniversary of the Sino-Indian border war that witnessed the first ever bloody conflict between the two Asian giants resulting in heavy casualties on the Indian side. On this occasion we are (...)
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