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No bar on this front: Technology can aid accountability
A BarCamp held in Gurgaon recently showcased a number of new initiatives focused on technology, transparency and accountability, from ways to minimise corruption in dealings with government to ways to track power cuts More... We are all complicit in the exile of MF HusainOur ‘patriots’ hounded MF Husain out of his country. Our ‘secularists’ didn’t have the guts to bring him home. All of us are guilty of giving in to intimidation in the name of pragmatic governance, says Dilip Simeon More... The Binayak effectMinnie Vaid travels to Bagrumnala, a Khmar tribal village tucked away in the forests of Chhattisgarh, where Binayak Sen is a legend, and where he set up a remarkable model of rural healthcare, working with the community on everything from healthcare to nutrition and education More... Do cooperative forests have a future?Over the last 13 years, 143 primary farm forestry cooperatives have regenerated 27,000 hectares of wasteland in 13 districts of Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. The MoEF under the Green India Mission intends to increase India’s forest cover by 5 million hectares, but forest cooperatives don’t even get a mention More... Trafficking is big business along the Indo-Bangladesh borderProstitution has become a booming business on the 151-km India-Bangladesh border. Many of the women, abandoned by husbands or trafficked across the porous border, have entered the trade and continue in it because it provides a steady income. Clearly, the challenge is rehabilitation, not rescue More... Waste to energy project not so greenHow did Jindal’s waste-to-energy (WtE) project come up in the heart of Delhi without any public consultation or clearance from the pollution control board? And will it be another illegality that the MoEF will regularise? More... Saving Baby BabuAbout 250 newborns die every day in Bihar. But Bihar’s new Sick Newborn Care Units, which cater to over 90,000 infants every year, have helped bring the Infant Mortality Rate down from 56 per 1,000 births in 2008 to 52 per 1,000 in 2009, just 2 points above the national average More... Papamma’s victory marks a milestone in the domestic workers’ strugglePapamma, a domestic worker in Bangalore, took her employers to court and managed to receive a favourable judgment. This is a historic victory for perhaps the most vulnerable segment of unorganised workers, made possible by the support of a trade union, a dedicated team of advocates and a labour officer who adjudicated objectively More... Chilika’s fishermen set to battle prawn mafia themselvesDespite a court order in February directing demolition of the prawn gheris that have trapped roughly 40% of the waters in Chilika Lake, no action has been taken. Now the Chilika Matsayjibi Mahasangh has vowed to demolish the prawn enclosures itself and take the state to court for ignoring judicial directives More... Vedanta and Posco: A tale of two projectsWhy was the POSCO project treated so differently from Vedanta? One was given clearance, with conditions, while the other was rejected, despite the fact that both were found to be in violation of the Forest Rights Act and other laws. Is it realpolitik that guides these decisions, asks Pradeep BaisakhMore... WSF: The view from SenegalAfrica was the focus of the World Social Forum 2011 held in Senegal in February. But oddly enough colonialism, which is responsible for depleting the continent’s resources and its present crisis, was simply not discussed, says Sachin Kumar Jain More... Haathi Mere SaathiThe ongoing Rengali left bank canal irrigation project on the Brahmani river, in Orissa, is seriously disrupting traditional elephant migration routes, leading to an escalation in man-elephant conflicts More... Children in the pitsChildren as young as 10 are working in mines in Bellary district of Karnataka, recent studies and public hearings report. It is the children of displaced and homeless families who are exploited most by the mining mafia More... MMS porn clips: The dark side of technologyCyber gender crimes are on the rise in India. But how are these crimes to be policed and prevented, and why has there been not a single conviction in such a case so far? More... No respite for Jharkhand’s beleaguered tribalsJust last year the tribals of Khunti and Gumla blocks in Jharkhand ousted steel giant Arcelor Mittal from the region. Now there’s another flashpoint around the Rs 65 crore Kantijalashay dam planned by the state government on the Chata River. The rivers, streams and fountains are all ours, they say. Why should we accept water from a dam? More... |
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