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PUDR expresses grave shock and demands action against those responsible for the industrial accident at the Ambuja-Holcim cement plant near Raipur, Chhattisgarh, on 31 January 2013, in which 5 workers have been killed. The names of the workers who died are Roshan Verma and Poshan Verma, apprentice (both apprentices from village Arjuni), Suresh Shukla and Kamleshwar Singh (both permanent workers, from Ambuja Colony and village Bhadrapaali respectively), and Durgesh (a contract worker from village Saiha).

The Democracy in Bhutan is just an eye wash to the International community. In fact the rein of power is in the hand of the king remotely controlled by king Jigme Singye Wangchuk as all the political parties’ first pledge to serve the kings and then the country and the people.

In this Walk the Talk on NDTV 24x7, author Salman Rushdie, who is in India to promote the screen adaptation of his novel, The Midnight’s Children, speaks to The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta about the making of the movie, the ban on The Satanic Verses and the role of history in education

Dr. K Satyanarayana: "First of all, I’m really upset at the way this whole discussion is taking place. I am not upset so much about Ashis Nandy’s comments, but I am upset at the way that Dalits as a community, including myself, are implicated in this discussion. First, as corrupt people, then as people who are intolerant, then as people who have no sense of humour;
(we are implicated) in innumerable ways, as this discussion is showing. In this campaign to defend Nandy, they’re really damaging the image of the community. "

Qamar Hashmi died on February 1, 2013