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news reports from Chennai and Mangalore about petitions in courts against religious rituals or display of religion in Govt offices

The Sunday Guardian
Police conducted havan at the end of Hazare’s fast
MIR BASIT HUSSAIN New Delhi | 4th September [2011]
he Delhi police heaved a sigh of relief after Anna Hazare called of his mammoth fast at Ramlila Maidan. Officials at Kamla Market police station thanked the heavens, by organising a havan as the protest concluded without any major untoward incidents. The ceremony was conducted by a priest named Pandit Vikas Navni.
Kamala market police is still under fire because (…)

to avoid political polarization and to break the cycle of ethnic strife and turf war, boundaries of administrative units like police stations, revenue estates, etc., ought to be altered so that the members of different communities may live together in peace and harmony, instead of allowing various groups to claim that particular areas belong to them and declaring certain areas as NO GO Areas under their fearful influence.

This report aims to critically examine legal remedies, both judicial and non-judi- cial, available under Indian law to victims of human rights abuses by companies. There are three main objectives of this examination: (i) to assess the efficacy of the existing regulatory framework; (ii) to identify major obstacles that victims experience in holding companies accountable for breaching their human rights obligations; and (iii) to outline recommendations that should help in overcoming these obstacles.

Poverty is slippery and elusive; it slides through the dexterous fingers of all the manipulators of figures and wielders of statistics. Poverty is not a sum below which people “fall” into it, as though it were an unguarded village well. Poverty is shifting and cunning. It lies in wait, lurking around corners, where sickness or an accident can abruptly terminate earning power. It waits on ignorance and incapacity, it thrives on prejudice and fear.