Archive of South Asia Citizens Wire

  • Bhabha-Nehru dream and our (and their also) Children’s Nightmare

    by People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy, 13 April 2012

    The United states Geological services (USGS) has the most comprehensive data on global earthquakes. The average number of events per year has been steadily increasing. There was a 90% increase in the number of earthquakes (Ritcher scale 6.0 and above) between 1980-89 and 2010-11. There were 106 events per year globally during the eighties, 159 during 2000-09 and 190 during 2010-11

  • Pakistan: Sectarian killings won’t stop sans tackling root cause - HRCP

    by HRCP, 12 April 2012

    Lahore, April 11: The continuing spilling of blood in sectarian killings in Quetta and Gilgit Baltistan manifests a blatant failure to address religious intolerance in society, which constitutes one of the biggest threats for the country, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) said on Wednesday.

  • Following Quake in Indonesia PMANE demands immediate halt of work at KKNPP

    by People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy, 12 April 2012

    The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) thinks that today’s earthquake and tsunami are Nature’s warning against commissioning the KKNPP. We demand immediate halt of work at the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) in the wake of the massive earthquake off the coast of Indonesia, significant tremors all over Tamil Nadu and the potential danger of tsunami along the coast of Tamil Nadu. Some 28 countries have been affected by the Nature’s fury.

  • Sanal Edamaruku, well known rationalist, under threat of arrest for exposing the "miracle"

    12 April 2012

    On 10th March, Sanal Edamaruku, President of the Rationalist International, flew to Mumbai. The TV channel TV-9 had invited him to investigate a “miracle” that caused local excitement. He went with the TV team to Irla in Vile Parle to inspect the crucifix standing there in front of the Church of Our Lady of Velankanni. This crucifix had become the centre of attraction for an ever growing crowd of believers coming from far and wide. The news of the miracle spread like wild fire. For some days, there were little droplets of water trickling from Jesus’ feet. Hundreds of people came every day to pray and collect some of the “holy water” in bottles and vessels. Sanal Edamaruku identified the source of the water (a drainage near a washing room) and the mechanism how it reached Jesus feet (capillary action). The local church leaders, present during his investigation, appeared to be displeased

  • Against evictions and arrests of protestors in Kolkata - Joint Statement from Delhi organisations

    11 April 2012

    The Trinamool Congress-led Government of West Bengal is daily showing its anti-people character. Its Police and the bulldozers of the KMDA (Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority) razed to the ground and burnt the slums and homes of more than 800 people in Nonadanga, Kolkata on 30th March 2012. These are the same people who were resettled after evictions from various canal banks across Kolkata, and from the dispossessed from the hurricane Aila in 2009.

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