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While thanking the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) for the timely and comprehensive report entitled “Performance Audit on Activities of Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (Department of Atomic Energy),” the People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) calls for the immediate resignation of its Chairman Sri. S. S. Bajaj and for the complete disbanding of this ineffective and wasteful handmaiden-organization of the Indian nuclear establishment.

We the following people went on a peace and solidarity mission to the trouble torn areas of the Western Assam with the objective of assessing the situation, meeting the inmates of both the communities in the relief camps, ascertaining specific vulnerabilities which need urgent attention and promoting peace and solidarity among the strife torn people. We visited a few relief camps in the affected districts of Dhubri, Bongaingaon and Kokrajhar on August 7-8, 2012. We also met with members of the civil society organizations and officials of the administration.

The shooting dead of striking miners by armed police at Marikana exposes hard truths about post-apartheid South Africa that the country’s new elites have preferred to ignore South Africans are reeling in horror at a violent incident on 16 August 2012 which recalls the darkest days of the (...)

The Hindu, August 19, 2012
Melting more than the glacier
by Meena Menon
Tears flew from Motup Chewang’s eyes as he spoke of his last visit to the Siachen glacier in 2005. Born in Nubra Valley in Ladakh, Motup, a mountaineer and tour-operator, says: “It was moraine all over till up to 16,000 feet. The glacier has receded so much.”
In 1986, as a guide to the glacier, he remembered the glacier’s snout lying at 10,000 ft. At a discussion organised by People for Social Action and (…)

Shreela Manohar, a 23-year old environmental health campaigner based in Chennai, has been researching and working to stop industrial pollution in Mettur for the past 4 months. She and the organisation she working with (Community Environmental Monitoring-The Other Media) have been associated with the Gonur West Agriculturists Development Union, a grassroots group of farmers in Mettur, providing the union with solidarity, techno-scientific and legal assistance and supporting their field work. Their campaign has been stonewalled consistently by industrial giants operating in Mettur, namely Chemplast and MALCO.