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Reports on the anti-terror action by the ‘Special Cell’ of the Delhi Police in the Batla House area of Jamia Nagar, New Delhi, on September 19 are shocking indeed and have provoked a public and political outcry.

Resolution adopted at National Convention on Countering Fascist Forces, New Delhi October 25-26 2008

The Ottawa Citizen, October 27, 2008
Canada’s Asbestos Time Bomb Part 3
This week in Rome, 126 countries will debate whether chrysotile asbestos should be added to a ’watchlist’ of dangerous chemicals. Canada, which exports 95 per cent of the chrysotile asbestos it mines, has vetoed the addition in the past, arguing the material can be used safely. Critics at home and abroad call Canada’s position "self-serving." In a four-part series on the eve of the Rome talks, Katie Daubs examines (…)

October 24, 2008
Press Release
Progressive members of the Nepali community in the Americas, particularly in North America, have created an organization - the Progressive Nepali Forum in the Americas (PNEFA) - with the objective of contributing to the movement for social justice in Nepal and abroad. The organization responds to the increasing Nepali diasporic population in this part of the world.
PNEFA seeks to promote sense of social responsibility among Nepali Diaspora by providing (…)

The News, 13 October 2008
A significant event passed by relatively unnoticed last week when media reported that traders on Lahore’s Hall Road deliberately set alight thousands of pornographic VCDs and DVDs. The Anjuman-e-Tajiran had resolved to weed out the “objectionable” media after vendors in the area reported receiving anonymous letters and phone calls threatening them of dire consequences if the sale of such “obscene” material continued.
The event was widely reported, but the (…)