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Shocking case of caste bias in Haryana Feb 17 2012, The Times of India
In a shocking case of caste-related violence, a man belonging to the upper caste almost chopped off an arm of a Dalit youth with a sickle as he drank water from his pitcher. |
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Read Complete Article: http://www.timesnow.tv/Shocking-case-of-caste-bias-in-Haryana/articleshow/4396025.cms |
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Neeta Deshpande, Frontline, Feb. 11-24, 2012, Volume 29 - Issue 03
According to the handloom census of India 2009-10, the average earning of rural and urban households dependent on weaving and allied activities in Andhra Pradesh is about Rs.28,000 a year, or Rs.75 a day. |
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Read Complete Article: www.frontlineonnet.com/stories/20120224290310900.htm |
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| Distress and death Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay, Frontline, Feb. 11-24, 2012, Volume 29 - Issue 03
THE topic of suicide figured repeatedly in Safar Molla's conversations with his neighbours a few days before his death. The 18-year-old marginal farmer from Kaltikuri village in Bardhaman district's Bhatar block talked about it quite casually, in fact even jocularly. |
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Read Complete Article: www.frontlineonnet.com/stories/20120224290303300.htm |
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| The law of life
February 8, 2012, The Hindu
The Supreme Court last week ruled as unconstitutional the mandatory imposition of the death penalty under the Arms Act in view of the absence of judicial review. The verdict is a reiteration of current jurisprudence that for criminal offences, life imprisonment is the rule and death sentence the exception. |
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Read Complete Article: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-opinion/article2870446.ece |
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| UIDAI launches Aadhaar authentication services
February 8, 2012, The Hindu
Last Christmas Eve, 35 people in a remote village of Jharkhand received a unique present. They became the first Indians to access their Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme bank accounts on their doorstep, having had their identities authenticated through their Aadhaar numbers. |
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Read Complete Article: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article2870647.ece |
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| Envying Dalit sarpanch, upper caste men call her daughter-in-law witch
February 8, 2012, The Hindu
When Norti Bai, sarpanch of Harmara in Rajasthan, refused to give in to the demands of upper caste men in her village, her daughter-in-law Ram Peari was branded a “witch.” The villagers called for Peari's “social boycott” and excommunication. In Alwar district in the State, Sunita Bairwa of Bahedakhah was assaulted because the upper castes were unhappy about a Dalit being elevated to sarpanch. |
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Read Complete Article: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article2870486.ece |
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