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“This Could Have Been the Second Khairlanji”
“This Could Have Been the Second Khairlanji” Eknath Narayan Huke (70) and Prayagbai Eknath huke (64) accused by co-villagers of practising black magic Witch-Hunt in the 21st Century On 21st August a family of seven people were attacked by a violent mob of the same village and tied to pillars after being accused of being witches
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विद्यापीठांमध्ये बौद्धिक अवकाशाचे जाणूनबुजून संकुचन
विद्यापीठाच्या अभ्यासक्रमातून लेखक आणि पाठयपुस्तके किंवा त्यातील भाग वगळणे हे अलीकडील कृत्य उघड राजकीय कृत्ये आहे. दिल्ली विद्यापीठाने महाश्वेता देवी, बामा आणि सुकीर्थरिनी यांचे साहित्य आणि कन्नूर विद्यापीठाने एम.एस. गोळवलकर आणि व्ही.डी. सावरकर यांचे साहित्य काढून टाकले आहे. साहजिकच, वर्गात बसून जागतिक परिप्रेक्षाविषयी चर्चा करण्याचे दोन विद्यापीठांमध्ये भिन्न दृष्टिकोन आहेत. पहिल्या वर्गातील विद्यार्थी सशक्त स्त्रीवादी साहित्य वाचण्यापासून
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Rising Age of Marriage for Girls: Shrugging Responsibility on Child Marriage Issue
The recent decision by the Central Cabinet to raise the age of marriage of girls from 18 years to 21 years does not even pretend to address the ground level concerns regarding prevention of child marriages. There is no doubt that early marriage has severely adverse effects on the health, education and social life of girls but the
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Adivasis Wait Long for Justice
Adivasi village in Submergence Area of Bhendala Medium Irrigation Project, Rajura Recently the Adivasis of Navin Berdi village approached the High Court, Nagpur in a Public Interest Litigation asking for fair compensation for the houses and homesteads being acquired by the irrigation department for the Bhendala Medium Irrigation Project in Rajura Tehsil. A cursory
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How NHRC Contributed to the formation of Shramik Elgar
District Collector K.B Bhoge, DGP Shankar Sen and myself, 1999 Around May 1999 I started work in the Chandrapur District Collectorate in a UNICEF supported programme called the Primary Education Enhancement Programme (PEEP) or Amchi Shaka Prakalp in Marathi. At that time there was another programme being implemented called the Swarnajayanti Shahari Vikas Yojana. The District Collector
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Why do Activists Like Me Lose Elections?
Every few days someone asks me, “How come you lost in the elections so badly?” Others nod their heads saying, “Activists never win elections.” So, the question is why are social activists less likely to win elections? Instead of blaming the electorate for selling their votes or the opponent for corrupt practices, I would like
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वनविभागाचा दहशतवाद, नक्षलवादाला निमंत्रण!
वनविभागाच्या मारहाणीत जखमी, किशोर ठाकूर “नक्षलवाद्याचा उगम भारतात जमिनीच्या असमान वाटपावरून झाला. गडचिरोली जिल्हयातील भामरागड तालुक्यात तर जमिनीचे असमान वाटप नाही. अशा परिस्थितीत गडचिरोली जिल्ह्यात नक्षलवाद कसा वाढला?” 20 वर्षापूर्वी, धोडराज येथील जैराम सोमनकर यांना आम्ही केलेला प्रश्न. “भामरागड तालुक्यात ज्यावेळी नक्षलवादी आलेत, त्याकाळी येथे फक्त दोन पोलिस असायचे. अहेरी येथे पोलिस स्टेशन होते…. गरीब
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Goondas in Uniform
Inhuman Torture by Chandrapur Forest Department leads to Death and Injuries Mayabai Kishore Thakur whose husband was brutalised by the forest department Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray who is also Maharahstra’s Forest Minister should take serious cognizance of the Goonda elements inside Chandrapur district’s forest department. In the last two months two separate incidents have occurred
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Performance of Chandrapur and Gadchiroli districts in the National Family Health Survey
National Family Health Survey: Performance of Chandrapur and Gadchiroli districts The National Family Health Survey Round 5 (NFHS-5) provided the welcome information that the country’s population was stabilizing as the Total Fertility Rate declined across a majority of the states in the country including Maharahstra. The NFHS conducted by the International Institute for Population Science, Mumbai
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वन्यप्राण्यांच्या हल्लेतील पीडितांना समान न्याय द्या!
१५ फेब्रुवारी २०१९ रोजी श्रमिक एल्गारने मानव व वन्य प्राणी संघर्षातील पिडीतांना न्याय मिळावा, हा संघर्ष कमी होवून वन्यप्राण्यांचे सरंक्षणही व्हावे यासाठी काय उपाययोजना करता येईल याकरीता, हळदा ता. ब्रह्मपूरी येथे परिषद आयोजित केले होते. या हळदा परिषदेत पाच हजाराचे वर, परिसरातील नागरीक उपस्थित होते. परिसरात त्यावेळी जवळपास १५ शेतकरी, शेतमजूर, महिला, गुराखी वाघाने
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