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Harish Bhai Bhatt is a jolly-looking man
with a round belly and a bushy mustache that turns up like a smile,
but his words would chill the soul of any Muslim in India.

The communal conflagration into which the country is being pushed by
fundamentalist outfits like the VHP is terrifying but needs both
resistance from citizens and firm handling from the Government.

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Contempt proceedings against Arundhati Roi for speaking out over the Supreme Court Judgement on Sardor Sarovar Dam

WE FELL VERY SORRY FOR THE SUPREME COURT'S JUDGMENT IN THE CASE AGAINST Ms. ARUNDHATI ROY UNDER CONTEMPT OF COURT PROCEEDINGS

The Supreme Court on Wednesday convicted booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy on charges of contempt of court and sentenced her to one-day symbolic improsionment and a fine of Rs 2000. This has serious implications for the Freedom of Speech in India

. The People's War Group (PWG) has called bandh in the States of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh and Orissa on March 22 to protest against the Prevention of Terrorism Ordnance (POTO).

While granting further time to the States and the Union Territories (UTs) to implement its orders banning illegal sex-determination tests, the Supreme Court today warned that the Health Secretaries of States and the UTs failing to implement them would be required to be present in the court on April 9.

Nearly all the central trade unions today announced what was billed as the biggest ever industrial action after the start of liberalisation by issuing a collective call for a country-wide strike in the public sector on April 16 to protest against the Government's ``anti-people and anti-worker policies and actions'', including disinvestment and attacks on rights of the working class.

Activists of the Narmada Bachao Andolan, led by Medha Patkar, staging a dharna outside the Shram Shakti Bhawan in New Delhi on Tuesday.

Near-empty roads, closed markets and streetlights that failed to turn on as darkness set in summed up the tale of the 24-hour general strike called by pro-LDF and pro-BJP trade unions beginning last night in support of the 28-day-old indefinite strike by State employees and teachers.

Police arrested 115 CPI cadres when they attempted to hoist party flag in a Dalit colony at Chinna Kannanur near Manamadurai on Monday.

You decide.

riots

The electorate of Uttar-Pradesh have given their verdict and Ram party has
been reduced to just third position.

Communal riots in India should be stopped

Berlin, 1939:

Hindus set fire to homes in a shantytown in
western India early Friday, killing at least 27 Muslims as they
slept, police said.

While the international community calls for restraint on the
IndoPakistan border, governments led by the UK and the US are
jockeying as never before for a bigger slice of India's growing arms
budget.