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Saudi -Yemen war:
Statement issued to the press by representatives of trade unions and labour-support organisations at the conclusion of their meeting held at PILER Centre, Karachi on Wednesday, 8th April 2015.

As the caption - Parameters for a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action Regarding the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Nuclear Program, of the framework accord, in English, hosted on the US government official website (<http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/20...> ) tells us, this subject agreement purportedly lays down the broad outlines and parameters for the final, and real, “agreement” as regards the dispute on the table to be worked out by coming June 30th.

within days of the Centre appointing Pahlaj Nihalani as the chief of the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), he commented on the unfairness of censoring only films and videos while the Internet roamed free. He wanted to control the Internet too. Soon a diktat went out — Mumbai could not be allowed to be called Bombay, no cuss words, family values only... He went further to say that if films avoided controversy, there would be no need for censorship. Obviously the desire to control thought and morality was at the back of this desire to avoid controversy.

On 6 April 2015, many gathered at Jantar Mantar, Delhi, to demand land rights for the people and symbolically to burn pages of the ordinance promulgated again by the NDA government led by Mr Modi. The photos posted here were taken by Mukul Dube.

January 25, 1999: On the eve of Republic Day, at about 8.30pm, an armed mob attacked Shankarbigha, an impoverished Dalit village in Bihar. They butchered 23 men, women and children. The police registered an FIR naming 24 accused persons on the basis of information provided by a survivor, Pragash Rajvanshi, who had lost six members of his family, including his wife, in the massacre. Citing the slogans raised by the mob, Rajvanshi alleged that Shankarbigha was part of a series of massacres in Bihar organized by Ranvir Sena, a private army of landlords drawn mainly from the upper-caste bhumihars.