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Today (11.02.2011) Supreme Court issued notice to the Central Government on the petition of Afzal Guru seeking his transfer from Tihar jail to Srinagar jail. Afzal has been leading lonely life in Tihar jail for the last about nine years.

Daily Mail, 5 February 2011
The Unpalatable Truth About Forced Marriage
By Yasmin Alibhai-brown
Britain’s first Muslim peer has linked unhappy arranged marriages to the grooming of girls by Asian gangs. His courage to speak out should be applauded, not vilified.
This week, a Muslim peer broke the code of silence that pervades British-Asian communities and spoke out against the criminal practice of forced marriages.
He starkly stated that there was a connection between forced (…)

A 20-year old Pakistani woman who lived in northern Italy, she was murdered by her father who claimed he was "saving the family’s honour"

Text of keynote address delivered by Colin Gonsalves at the inauguration of Persistence Resistance 2011, - film festival in New Delhi

Tehelka says that it has obtained a copy of the report submitted by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) to the Supreme Court. The SIT was appointed by the Supreme Court to investigate the role of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and others in the riots that followed the burning of the Sabaramati Express on 27th February 2002. The favorable impression sought to be created by the associates of Modi and journalists sympathetic to him is strongly negated by the many critical observations of Modi and his administration contained in the report.