KOLKATA: An Indian national has been languishing at Dum Dum Central Jail despite a release order issued in November 2013. A Bongaon court had convicted him on the ground that he, being a Pakistani national, intruded on India. Pakistan, on the other hand, refused to recognize him as its own citizen.
South Asia Citizens Web
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Strange case of an Indian National in Jail on Charges of Being a Pakistani Intruder
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Statement in Support of Teesta Setalvad and Javed Anand - from Civil Society Organizations and Human Rights defenders in Sri Lanka
2 August 2015We the undersigned express our profound dismay and disquiet at the continued official harassment by the central government of leading Indian human rights defenders Teesta Setalvad and Jawed Anand. Following the election of the BJP led government in Delhi in May 2014, the country has witnessed open strenuous official efforts to foist a large variety of charges of financial irregularity on them, to harass them, to tarnish their reputations, and to secure their arrests.
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India: Maharashtra tops the list for the number of people displaced by dam projects
1 August 2015Maharashtra tops list for people displaced by dam projects: Government
In his reply to a question in Lok Sabha, minister of state for water resources Sanwar Lal Jat yesterday said that altogether 7,13,136 people have been displaced by a total of 100 dam projects in Maharashtra. -
Achin Vanaik: Nepal’s Maoists in Power
1 August 2015Achina Vanaik’s review article on Aditya Adhikari, The Bullet and the Ballot Box: The Story of Nepal’s Maoist Revolution and Prashant Jha, Battles of the New Republic: A Contemporary History of Nepal.
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India: Kodaikanal Won’t - Protest Song by Sofia Ashraf
31 July 2015protest song against Unilever for its failure to clean up mercury contamination or compensate workers affected by its thermometer factory in Kodaikanal.
