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Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan - Press Note

HIGH COURT NOTICE TO CENTRE, STATE AND MUNCIPAL SCHOOL BOARD FOR NOT RELEASING GRANT UNDER `SARVA SHIKSHA ABHIYAN’ SCHEME.

Mr. Justice Jayant Patel of Gujarat High Court issued notice today to the (1) Union of India – Ministry of Human Resources,(2) State of Gujarat – Department of Primary education and (3) [...]

Para 229 Untold stories

Para 229 Untold stories

Paragraph 229
Untold stories
(Mukul Sinha)
 
 

The eloquence of the Paragraph 229 of the report of the Justice Nanavati Commission on the Godhra incident lies not in what it said but in what it did not say. Ironically, in a hurry to absolve the Chief Minister, other ministers and even the delinquent police officers from the lapses committed [...]

Jan Sangharsh Manch comments on Nanavati Commission Report

 
THE DERAILED REPORT OF SABARMATI EXPRESS

(Please click on the below link for the complete text of Jan Sangharsh Manch’s Report on the burning of Sabarmati Express in Godhra)
 
ON THE RIGHT TRACK TO GODHRA BY JAN SANGHARSH MANCH

PREAMBLE:
 
1.              On 28th February 2002, the news dailies of Gujarat were carrying the screaming headlines of the gruesome death [...]

POTA - Production of Terrorist Act

P  .  O  .  T  .  A
Production of Terrorist Act, Gujarat.
 
How does one declare a war on terrorism if there are no terrorists around? In Gujarat, this logical hurdle is easily surmounted. Create them first and then declare war on them so that  the "hapless citizens" can vote you to power as their sole savior! [...]

Demonstration Against GUJCOC

Demonstration Against GUJCOC

Despite restrictions of the holy Ramzan Month, over a thousand Muslims including women joined the protest Dharna organized by Jan Sangharsh Manch, New Socialist Movement, Jamat-e-Islam, Aman Samuday, Jamate Ulema, Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Samiti, Aman Samuday and several other civil rights organizations to protest against the demand of Narendra Modi to enact Gujarat [...]

Defeat Communal Fascism and Globalization

Defeat Communal fascism and Globalization

Speech of Amrish Patel, Gen. Secretary, New Socialist Movement
In the Convention against Communal Fascism and Globalization
At Kolkata on 26th September 2005.

I come all the way from Gujarat, the State which has now come to be known as the Laboratory of Hindutva. By calling it [...]

Judicial Activism on Right to Shelter - Rights of the Urban Poor

By S.H. Iyer
Advocate

JUDICIAL ACTIVISM AND RIGHTS OF THE URBAN POOR IN INDIAN CITIES

A poor homeless person was sleeping in the premises of a court. The Marshal came and scolded him. He was asked to go away. The man who was woken up from his slumber said ‘I am prepared to leave [...]

Report and Resolutions of NCAF

Report and Resolutions of NCAF

NATIONAL CONFERENCE AGAINST FASCISM
Report, Proceedings and Resolutions

1st September, 2007
VENUE: Town hall, Ashram road ,Ahmedabad

Inaugural Session.
(Presided by Shri A.P.Ravani, Retd Chief Justice Rajasthan High Court)
After registration of the delegates, the conference began with the screening of the film `Come see America’ by Sashi, highlighting [...]

High Court of Gujarat Finds Prima Facie Case of Fake Encounter

Admits petition filed by Sabbir Jamal brother of Sadik Jamal who was killed in fake encounter by Gujarat Police

On 13th january 2003, a young boy from bhavnagar, Sadik Jamal was shot dead in Naroda area of Ahmedabad, India by the Gujarat Police who alleged that Sadik was a terrorist connected with Lashkar-e-Toiba and Dawood Ibrahim [...]

Minorities in India - An Introduction

Minorities in India - An Introduction

Minorities in India - Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
By Mukul Sinha

Today: The serial bomb blasts in Ahmedabad on July 26, 2008 and the pictures of the dismembered bodies of scores of victims, brought back the spectre of the riots of 2002. Would there be another communal conflagration like in 2002? The authorities did [...]