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Police in India’s Tamil Nadu state arrested and deported Rainer Sonntag the 49-year-old computer programmer on 27 February, accusing him of funding the anti-nuke protests in Koodankulam.

This Memorandum is being sent to you on behalf of the Bhopal Gas Peedith Mahila Udyog Sanghathan (BGPMUS – an organization of Bhopal gas-victims for seeking justice) and the Bhopal Gas Peedith Sangharsh Sahayog Samiti (BGPSSS – a coalition of all India and Delhi-based organizations for supporting the struggle of the gas-victims for justice).
It is the considered opinion of BGPMUS and BGPSSS that an unwarranted controversy has been created by the IOC and the LOCOG by inducting the Dow Chemical Company, USA, as a partner of the Olympic Movement despite Dow’s chequered history. For maintaining the spirit of the Olympic Movement and for upholding the sanctity of the Olympic Charter and the Code of Ethics, we urge the IOC and the LOCOG to rescinded that decision

livemint.com
Feb 29 2012
Of all the potential and credible contenders to be the next prime minister, the one least deserving is Narendra Modi
Of all the reasons given to counter charges that Narendra Modi failed to protect the lives and property of thousands of Gujaratis (a large majority of them being Muslims) in the 2002 riots that followed the burning of a train compartment in Godhra in which 58 Hindus died, the most despicable is to equate those riots with the anti-Sikh riots of (…)

BJP president Nitin Gadkari’s projection of Narendra Modi as one of the party’s prime ministerial candidates for 2014 should be taken up as a challenge by all those who value democracy, secularism and human rights. In the 2002-12 decade, the Gujarat chief minister has presided over the worst carnage of Muslims and embarked upon a path of soulless capitalist growth. The 10 years of his rule are both a continuity and distinctive. When he became chief minister, Gujarat was already saffronised by Hindutva forces and had a fast growing economy.

Women’s groups and other democratic rights groups in Delhi held a daylong hunger strike on 29 February 2012 at Rajghat [New Delhi] from 6 am to 6 pm in solidarity with Soni Sori [a woman political prisoner in Chhattisgarh state]. Programmes were held also in Bangalore, Bhopal, Jaipur, Bombay, as well as in San Francisco and Boston.