India: BJP refuses to spell stand on Section 377; Lekhi supports SC order / Samajwadi Party supports supreme court ruling

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BJP refuses to spell stand on Section 377; Lekhi supports SC order
TNN | Dec 13, 2013, 06.02 AM IST

NEW DELHI: While opposition BJP stuck to its non-committal official line on the Supreme Court's verdict on homosexuality, party spokesperson Meenakshi Lekhi

India: CPM Should Learn from Late PC Joshi and Not from Mulayam Singh Yadav

INSAF Bulletin 140 December 2013
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CPM SHOULD LEARN FROM LATE PC JOSHI AND NOT FROM MULAYAM SINGH YADAV

by Daya Varma and Vinod Mubayi

The Communist Party of India (CPM) is the life-line of the communist movement in India. There are other communist parties too,

India: Rehabilitate UP riot victims for meaningful normalcy, says AB Bardhan

Economic Times

Rehabilitate UP riot victims for meaningful normalcy, says AB Bardhan
PTI Nov 6, 2013, 04.57PM IST


ALIGARH: Senior CPI leader A B Bardhan today said that no meaningful normalcy can be achieved in the riot-hit districts of western Uttar Pradesh till the victims are fully rehabilitated and return to their original homes.

"There can be no meaningful normalcy in the riot-affected

India: Former BJP hand who has the honour of umpteen criminal cases against him back in the UP govt

Controversial Kunda MLA Raghuraj Pratap Singh “Raja Bhaiya” was re-inducted in the Akhilesh Yadav Ministry on Friday after a gap of seven months. He resigned the next day after the murder of DSP Zia-ul-Haque’s at Balipur village in Pratapgarh district on March 2, 2013. The move to re-induct him is said to have been governed by political compulsions with the Samajwadi Party eyeing the Thakur or

Violence by Political Design | Report of CPA initiated fact finding team on Muzaffarnagar violence

This fact-finding exercise was coordinated by the Centre for Policy Analysis. Team members were the human rights activist and former civil servant Harsh Mander, former Director-General of the Border Security Force, E N Rammohan, Professor Kamal Mitra Chenoy of Jawaharlal Nehru University, National Integration Council member John Dayal, senior journalist Sukumar Muralidharan and CPA Director and

India: Muzaffarnagar riots - On the ground, Muslims take stock of 'a new situation'

From: Indian Express, 13 September 2013

Muzaffarnagar riots: On the ground, Muslims take stock of 'a new situation'
by Seema Chishti
New Delhi :

Amid the violence of a scale these areas of UP have never seen before, there is restlessness in the Muslim community about “adjusting to a new situation” — and it is not just about displacement, disposession of assets, or attacks .

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