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Farmers, landless workers, fishrfolks and others Tootikudi, Idinthakarai, Tirunelveli and Koodankulam in Tamilnadu; Fatehabad, Gorakhpur in Haryana protested today at Jantar Mantar opposing various nuclear power plants across the country. The dharna was joined by the members of Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and peace (CNDP), National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM), All India Students Association (AISA), SUCI, People’s Union for Civil Liberties, Indian National Social Action Forum (INSAF), Delhi Solidarity Group, Friends of Koodankulam Anti Nuclear Movement, Lok Raj Sangathan and other social organisations from Delhi.

Pakistan’s women will have a great deal to celebrate if parliament can adopt the three bills concerning them that are on its agenda.

Subramaniam Swamy’s views are deeply offensive; they are also dangerous. The measures he proposes—far out of step with the everyday secularism and tolerance embodied by most Indians—would threaten to tear apart the basic fabric of India’s pluralist democracy. And, as Indians know too well, the brand of rhetoric that he employs has fueled violence against religious minorities in the past.

The PUCL demands the release of Abhay Sahoo, stopping all repression in that area and the withdrawal of all criminal cases against Abhay Sahoo and other struggling people. It also urges the Government to restore normalcy so that people could get on with their daily life and address their everyday.

M.G. Mendis was perhaps the "undisputed leader" and most prominent trade-union activitist of this militant period in the urban trade-union movement. His active participation continued in the 1946 and 1947 general strikes, and in the 1950s’ when he was involved in several notable struggles. In later years too, he was a prominent activist in the Communist Party and is remembered today as a courageous fighter for the rights of the working class of Sri Lanka.