Jan Sangharsh Manch, an NGO Sinha founded with his wife Nirjari, has been instrumental in fighting the cases of riot victims. Sinha also participated in the Nanavati-Shah Commission inquiring into the riots. Since then, he has doggedly fought for reopening probes in the fake encounter cases, including that of Sohrabuddin Sheikh. What has kept you [...]
Retired Supreme Court judge M B Shah, who has been appointed by the Modi government to head the commission to probe the charges of corruption against it is a familiar name in Gujarat. Justice Shah heads the monitoring authority of the Special Task Force (STF) appointed by the state government to probe cases of fake [...]
Certain intelligence records related to the 2002 riots and the documents related to the movement of the then intelligence chief of Gujarat, G C Raiger, have been destroyed, the additional director general of police (intelligence) has informed the Nanavati-Mehta Commission in a “confidential” report. The information was made public by Justice (retd) Nanavati on Tuesday [...]
What is so unusual for a communist to be red? It is after all the color that history has assigned for the advanced vanguard party of the proletariat. So why is Buddhadev shy of his red face?? He absented himself from the politburo meeting of CPM at Delhi and a senior leader had to be [...]
Empower the people in fight against corruption by amending prevention of corruption act Exploiting the vast anger of the people against the corrupt political leadership, the second freedom struggle of India was conceived, planned and executed within five days. On 9th April, 2011, the TV channels gave us the Breaking News that India had won [...]
Around ten thousand workers and their family members marched through the streets of Ahmedabad on 22nd April, 2010 defying the threat of the Government to invoke ESMA against the striking transport workers of the Ahmadabad Municipal Corporation. The strikers were demanding the implementation of the sixth pay commission’s recommendations which were adopted by the Government [...]
A century has passed since 15,000 women marched through New York City demanding shorter hours, better pay and voting rights. In 1910, the first international women’s conference was held in Copenhagen in the labour-movement building. Ever since, the ‘International Women’s Day’ has been observed and the next was held on March 19, 1911 in Germany, [...]
The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday asked the state Advocate General when the time would be “mature” enough to summon Chief Minister Narendra Modi and others before the State-appointed commission probing the 2002 Godhra train attack and the Gujarat riots that followed. Chief Justice S J Mukhopadhaya made the oral query to the AG while [...]
As 26th January approaches each year, we find little children in tattered clothes scurrying across the traffic signals to sell their tricolor merchandise to the occupants of the whizzing cars that stop at the red signals. The approaching “Republic Day” gives them some hope to sell their stock of plastic flags for perhaps a better [...]
Never in his wildest dreams did IGP D.G.Vanzara ever think that some day he would be encountering the CBI. Between 2002 to April 2007, he was the de-facto Police Chief of the Gujarat State and no senior police officer would dare cross his path knowing his proximity with the Chief Minister Shri Narendra Modi. First, [...]
