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Crippling Lok Adalats (23 December 09:50) |
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As the justice delivery system gets farther from the people, a serious attempt like the Lok Adalat to make justice accessible to a large chunk of the
poor has been appropriated by powe... |
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Centre's child labour ban not good enough (14 August 01:17) |
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The Centre's latest piece-meal approach to child labour is likely to be as ineffective as the previous failed schemes and plans. Unless the underlying
cau... |
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Clear the jails first (14 August 01:17) |
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There are 250,000 people languishing in jails waiting for the courts to hear their cases. But far from facilitating the release of those who have
been d... |
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Centre's child labour ban not good enough (14 August 01:17) |
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The Centre's latest piece-meal approach to child labour is likely to be as ineffective as the previous failed schemes and plans. Unless the underlying
cau... |
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Centre's child labour ban not good enough (14 August 01:17) |
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The Centre's latest piece-meal approach to child labour is likely to be as ineffective as the previous failed schemes and plans. Unless the underlying
cau... |
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Centre's child labour ban not good enough (14 August 01:17) |
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The Centre's latest piece-meal approach to child labour is likely to be as ineffective as the previous failed schemes and plans. Unless the underlying
cau... |
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Centre's child labour ban not good enough (14 August 01:17) |
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The Centre's latest piece-meal approach to child labour is likely to be as ineffective as the previous failed schemes and plans. Unless the underlying
cau... |
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Centre's child labour ban not good enough (14 August 01:17) |
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The Centre's latest piece-meal approach to child labour is likely to be as ineffective as the previous failed schemes and plans. Unless the underlying
cau... |
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Centre's child labour ban not good enough (14 August 01:17) |
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The Centre's latest piece-meal approach to child labour is likely to be as ineffective as the previous failed schemes and plans. Unless the underlying
cau... |
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Centre's child labour ban not good enough (14 August 01:17) |
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The Centre's latest piece-meal approach to child labour is likely to be as ineffective as the previous failed schemes and plans. Unless the underlying
caus... |
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Centre's child labour ban not good enough (14 August 01:17) |
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The Centre's latest piece-meal approach to child labour is likely to be as ineffective as the previous failed schemes and plans. Unless the underlying
cau... |
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Centre's child labour ban not good enough (14 August 01:17) |
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The Centre's latest piece-meal approach to child labour is likely to be as ineffective as the previous failed schemes and plans. Unless the underlying
cau... |
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In a democracy, State has no religion (14 August 08:38) |
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Court decisions have lacked strong measures to penalise religious fundamentalism. On the contrary, as some decisions indicate, the judiciary seems to
permit... |
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Tales of eviction in Bengal (14 August 08:38) |
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Free Bird Productions, a Kolkata-based documentary unit that makes cultural, ethnographic and documentary films, has made two of the more noteworthy
films about the recent events in... |
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Book review: A weak look at judicial reforms (14 August 08:38) |
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A trickle-down approach that sees justice through the lens of economic growth is the basis for many of its arguments, omissions and conclusions. As a
result, it is of use mainly to ... |
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Scuttling the law, officials evict tribals (14 August 08:38) |
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Why did police use force and evict tribal villagers in Ghateha, M.P.
on 19 April, when it was clear by all accounts that their land claims
had not yet been legally settled by the ... |
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Villagers push for work benefits in Orissa (14 August 08:38) |
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The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) is being implemented in
Orissa in stops and starts. But by pressing for information on NREGA benefits
using the sunshine law, citi... |
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Polavaram: Not just a place to live (14 August 08:38) |
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In Sriramagiri panchayat, a few Kondareddi settlements want nothing to do with the government's relief and rehabilitation package for those who would
be displaced by the Polavaram dam... |
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An entitlement with no law (14 August 08:38) |
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With the central government lobbing the ball into the states' court, the
right to education bill has practically lost its very essence. Without a
central legislation to support it,... |
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Drums of discontent at Ambikapur (14 August 08:38) |
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On 10 December, World Human Rights Day, nearly 1000 citizens gathered in Ambikapur, the capital of Sarguja district, Chhatisgarh, for a satyagraha rally and mass demonstration. They addre... |
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No end to the shameful practice of manual scavenging (14 August 08:38) |
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Despite laws abolishing the inhuman practice of manual scavenging, over a million dalits in 'superpower India' are caught in a vortex of severe
social an... |
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Kalpana Sharma: Violence behind closed doors (14 August 08:38) |
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We can now celebrate the fact that India is one of the few countries around the world that recognises that domestic violence is a violation of the
human righ... |
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Missing links in media coverage of child labour (14 August 08:38) |
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Few of the reports that appeared in the press in the two-week survey period told readers anything they did not already know. Ammu Joseph surveys
media repor... |
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Less than half a voice (14 August 08:38) |
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Among those whose livelihoods will be displaced by the Indira Sagar dam, women far outnumber men. But there is virtually no voice representing
women's vie... |
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At Polavaram, repeating a dammed history (14 August 08:38) |
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Over 230,000 people in hundreds of villages to be displaced, tens of thousands of acres submerged, wildlife and forest lands inundated - the Polavaram
proj... |
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Babies in the well, in Punjab (14 August 08:38) |
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In the vicinity of a private hospital in Patiala district, a 30-ft-deep well yielded 50 dead foetuses, all female. The location of the well near the clinic
was not accidental. For, cle... |
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Centre's child labour ban not good enough (14 August 08:38) |
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The Centre's latest piece-meal approach to child labour is likely to be as ineffective as the previous failed schemes and plans. Unless the underlying
cau... |
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Women in the line of fire in Manipur (14 August 08:38) |
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The rape of 21 women and girls has exposed deep-rooted ethnic divisions as well as fissures in Manipur's civil society.
As every tribe has rushed to arm itself, women find themselves ... |
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Erecting a stop sign for human trafficking (14 August 08:38) |
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Rescue operations carried out with tactful involvement of media and the police can offer victims protection from further
trauma, and also begin to sensitise a number of people on the c... |
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Kalpana Sharma: Death of a 10-year-old (14 August 08:38) |
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For her childish prank, domestic 'servant' Sonu was tortured, tied up and left to bleed to death. The police have rounded up her employers, but the story has not ended because it raises... |
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Lowering depths, growing pangs, juggling poverty lines (14 August 08:38) |
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The numbers are among the worst in the world. But instead of addressing the infinite nightmare of poverty, the Indian
government appears to be doing away with the poor altogether by st... |
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At Tadadi, a familiar struggle against displacement (14 August 08:38) |
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Disregard for local sentiment is now the norm in most large projects. At Tadadi, which has faced a long line of threats
of displacement, the latest struggle is against a proposed 4000 ... |
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