106 More wheat rots in India than the total production of Australia
111 5 days after 17-year-old Emaan Shah went missing in London, UK police is still clueless about the missing teen.
155 Amazing and beautiful california red sided garter snake
137 Export of basmati fetches more than 10,000 crore but rice remains a luxury for India’s poor.
161 23 dead in worst flooding seen across some regions of Europe in 500 years
76 Asian tigers at risk from domestic dog distemper virus
75 “Adwaita” the Aldabra Giant Tortoise – 256 years old
180 GM food labelling comes into force amid fears over 'lack of planning
On New Year’s day, India joined a select band of countries where food containing genetically modified (GM) content must be labelled as such. But it has done so without any preparation. The labelling of foods with GM ingredients has been a long-held demand of consumer groups, but the way it has been done in India has left them disappointed. The Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 2011, which came into effect [...]
131 Gandhi and the guerilla
In Pic :Nehru smiles as Che Guevara gifts him a box of Cuban cigars. Despite his own convictions, Che Guevara understood India’s non-violent resistance as arising from a cultural context in which war was distant from the spirit of the people Jean-Paul Sartre was impressed enough by Ernesto Che Guevara (1928-1967) to call him “the most complete human being of our age” after Che’s death. It was a reference to [...]
176 3 Pre-Adolescent Sisters Raped, Murdered In India; Bodies Recovered From Well
In a horrific act of violence, three young sisters were raped and murdered in India, police told reporters Tuesday. The bodies of the girls, who went missing on Feb. 14, were discovered two days later in a well near their native village in Maharashtra’s Bhandara district. According to the Press Trust of India, the deaths of the three girls — ages 11, 9 and 6 — sparked an outcry from [...]
115 Are these the men who planted the bombs in Hyderabad?
Indian Mujahideen operatives — Tabrez and Waqas — involved in the 13/7 Mumbai bombings could be behind the Hyderabad blasts as well, says NIA. Vicky Nanjappa reports Preliminary investigations by the National Investigation Agency into Thursday’s Hyderabad blasts suggest that the same module that carried out the 13/7 Mumbai blasts is behind the attack. The NIA has said that two operatives — Tabrez and Waqas — who were part of [...]
131 India Mine Child Labor: Despite National Ban, Children Work In Rat-Hole Coal Mines For $4 A Day
Thirteen-year-old Sanjay Chhetri has a recurring fear: that one day, the dark, dank mine where he works will cave in and bury him alive. Like thousands of children in India’s remote northeast, Chhetri begins work in the middle of the night, ready to dig pits, squat through narrow tunnels and cut coal shards. At four feet six inches, the skinny teenager is the perfect fit for a job in the [...]
106 Petition for the Elimination of Manual Scavenging in India
ponsored by: Dalit Freedom Network USA Every day, 1.3 million people in India (of which 97% are Dalit women and children) are forced to clean human excrement with their bare hands in a practice known as manual scavenging. On June 17, 2011, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India, in a moment of historical precedent, called manual scavenging “one of the darkest blots on [India’s] development process” and asked all State [...]