Archive of South Asia Citizens Wire

  • Controversy over 2015 Indian Science Congress session on Vedic aeronautics

    3 January 2015

    [(Petitioning Indian Science Congress Association This petition will be delivered to: Indian Science Congress Association Stop providing a platform for pseudo-science in 102nd Indian Science Congress Ramprasad Gandhiraman Sunnyvale, CA
    India’s prestigious 102nd Indian Science Congress will be held in Mumbai, India from 3rd to 7th January. The conference will have high profile scientist speakers from India and Abroad including Nobel Laureates. What is strange about this India’s highly (…)

  • India: Modi Govt Scraps Rape Crisis Centres Project

    1 January 2015

    NEW DELHI: The much touted "one stop crisis centre" — conceived in the aftermath of the Nirbhaya case and the Justice Verma report — has been scrapped by the NDA government. The project worth about Rs 200 crore was expected to provide medical, legal, police and emergency services to women in distress.

  • Is the Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal Going After All Who Express Concern at the David Bergman Verdict ?

    1 January 2015

    The Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal has issued a notice to the news paper Prothom Alo and to the New York Times that published or referred to a statement signed by some 50 citizens who have expressed concern for the journalist David Bergman who has been sentenced on a contempt of court charge for his reportage on the trials.

  • B.G. Verghese (1927-2014): Tributes

    1 January 2015

    Boobli George Verghese was born in 1927 of Malayali-speaking parents in Burma, where his father was a medical doctor. He was educated at The Doon School, Dehradun, St Stephen’s College, Delhi, and Trinity College, Cambridge.

  • Agrarian Unrest in Bihar - A PUDR report from 1981

    1 January 2015

    The 1981 report by PUDR on Agrarian Unrest in Bihar has long been out of print it was scanned as part of sacw’s digital archive.

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