Posted on July 18, 2007 by sanghparivar
New Delhi - India has started a 2.5-billion-dollar (Rs10,000 crore) joint venture with Israel to develop an advanced range surface-to-air missile capable of detecting and destroying hostile aircraft, missiles and spy planes, news reports said Friday. India now buys half of its arms from Israel, making it Israel’s biggest customer. It is thus funding the [...]
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Posted on July 12, 2007 by sanghparivar
Australia may be a new home for fundamentalists, if the Delhi Police investigation about a threatening religious hate mail from an unknown Hindu religious group to Congress president Sonia Gandhi and member of National Integration Council John Dayal is considered.
Deputy Commissioner of Police, Economic Offences Wing, Prabhakar told Hindustan Times: “We have received the email [...]
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Posted on July 6, 2007 by sanghparivar
DALLIPUR, India — The hip young Indians working inside this country’s multinational call centers have one thing in common: Almost all hail from India’s upper and middle castes, elites in this highly stratified society.
India may be booming, but not for those who occupy the lowest rung of society. The Dalits, once known as untouchables, continue [...]
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Posted on July 6, 2007 by sanghparivar
Bangalore: The acquittal of all the accused in the Kambalapalli massacre in which seven Dalits were burnt to death is not an exception. The Karnataka State Commission for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes has found that the accused in 98 per cent of cases of atrocities against Dalits were allowed to go scot-free. [...]
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Posted on July 5, 2007 by sanghparivar
Enabling the 21.9 million disabled persons in India
With India signing the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, laws pertaining to the disabled are likely to undergo a dramatic change. V. Kumara Swamy reports
A fortnight ago, NGO activist Rajiv Ranjan was denied permission to board a flight from Chennai to New Delhi [...]
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Posted on July 5, 2007 by sanghparivar
Dalits in Gujarat eclipsed under Modi: Meira
Claiming that the Dalits were “eclipsed” under the present dispensation in Gujarat, Union Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Meira Kumar on Monday criticised the Narendra Modi-led government for the “atrocities” meted out against Dalits and other backward sections of the society.
“The present government in Gujarat has a poor track [...]
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Posted on July 4, 2007 by sanghparivar
Majority of Indians are likely to support an investigation by United Nations on human rights violations in india, a survey result released by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) of Philippines said Monday. 54 % Indians welcomed UN probe on Human rights abuses in their own country while only 29 % opposed to such an action.
Globally, [...]
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