HYDERABAD:With the Hyderabad Metro Rail project picking up momentum, environmental activists and concerned citizens are raising their voice against the destruction of trees in the city. About 3,000 trees need to be removed or translocated in the three metro rail corridors. Of them, the HMR corporation has already felled 340 and translocated 384 but is finding it difficult to uproot 3 others on the LB Nagar-Miyapur stretch where the initial...
09:25 AM, May 07, 2012
Beijing: China's blind dissident Chen Guangcheng is expected to leave for the US soon to join a fellowship programme in the New York University, under a deal struck between Beijing and Washington to end a messy diplomatic row. Formalities regarding issuing passport to Chen and his wife and two children, whose entry into US embassy overshadowed the two-day high level strategic and economic dialogue between the two countries this week,...
04:04 PM, May 06, 2012
Beijing: Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng wants to leave for the United States rather than stay in China, telling Reuters his safety cannot be assured under a US-China deal that had persuaded him to give up refuge in the US embassy in Beijing. Chen left the embassy on Wednesday, where he had taken refuge for six days after escaping house arrest, appearing to be satisfied with a diplomatic solution which...
10:39 AM, May 03, 2012
New Delhi: A Pune court on Wednesday gave its clearance for a polygraph test on seven policemen in connection with the murder of RTI activist Satish Shetty. Shetty was murdered in 2010 in Pune. Shetty had exposed several land scams using the RTI. Satish was hacked to death by unidentified men in January 2010 in Talegoan in Maharashtra. Satish was credited with exposing several land scams in the Talegaon-Lonavala region,...
02:20 PM, May 02, 2012
New Delhi: Anti-nuclear activists on Tuesday are set to resume their fast to protest against the controversial Kudankulam nuclear plant. They have condemned the Tamil Nadu government for not delivering on assurances that were made during talks last month. The plant is likely to be commissioned within one month. Protesters, including people of villages in and around Kudankulam, have been demanding scrapping of the Indo-Russian project since August last, citing...
07:15 AM, May 01, 2012
Beijing: The United States faces a tense week in China as high-level talks on trade and global hot spots like Iran and North Korea open in the shadow of a blind Chinese activist's bold escape from house arrest to seek US protection in Beijing. The trip to Beijing would have been challenging for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner even without a human rights dispute over...
12:32 PM, Apr 30, 2012
Kolkata: Describing the eviction of people from slums in Nonadanga in the eastern part of the city as a "tragedy and great crime", human rights activist Binayak Sen on Sunday accused the West Bengal government of being inhuman. "It (eviction) is a great tragedy and a great crime committed. It is really inhumane on the part of the government to displace the people without providing viable alternative and livelihood options,"...
12:40 AM, Apr 30, 2012
Beijing: A blind legal activist who escaped house arrest in his Chinese village is under the protection of American officials, activists said on Saturday, creating a diplomatic dilemma for the US and Beijing days ahead of a visit by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Chen Guangcheng, who has exposed forced abortions and sterilizations in villages as a result of China's one-child policy, fled from his guarded home a week...
04:30 AM, Apr 29, 2012
Amritsar: Pakistan s human and civil rights activist Ansar Burney on Monday asked the Central government to grant him visa to visit Kashmir for interacting with people in an effort to establish peace in the Valley. He wanted to meet people to convince them that nothing could be achieved through violence, Burney said. The Kashmir problem was being encashed by politicians in both countries to derive political mileage, he said....
02:48 AM, Apr 24, 2012
Kolkata: Workers of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Thursday heckled human rights activists who once supported Mamata Banerjee during the Nandigram land acquisition campaign. The activists were protesting in Kolkata against slum eviction and political prisoners. The police reportedly chased away the TMC workers but also detained 6 human rights activists for not having permission to hold a rally. ...
01:45 PM, Apr 12, 2012
Chennai: Work at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) was not affected in the wake of massive earthquake in Indonesia triggering fears of tsunami though the plant is "generally on alert," a top official said on Wednesday. "We received the alert from Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services in Hyderabad and we are generally on alert. But our work is continuing," M Kasinath Balaji, Site Director, Kudankulam Nuclear Power...
06:38 PM, Apr 11, 2012
Dubai: United Arab Emirates authorities on Sunday briefly detained a political activist who criticised one of the Gulf country's rulers on his Twitter account, a prominent Emirati blogger said. Ahmed Mansour told The Associated Press on the phone that security agents detained the activist, Mohammed Abdel-Razzaq al-Siddiq, before dawn Sunday. He was taken from his home in the emirate of Sharjah and released on bail later Sunday, Mansour said. The...
09:41 AM, Mar 26, 2012
New Delhi: The CBI on Sunday said that the weapon used in the murder of RTI Activist Shehla Masood has been recovered at the instance of Saqib Ali who is accused of hiring contract killers to murder her. A CBI spokesperson said in New Delhi that the weapon, a country-made bullet, was recovered at the instance of Ali alias 'danger' and has been since sent for forensic examination. Ali -...
02:31 PM, Mar 25, 2012
New Delhi: The CBI on Saturday conducted a lie-detection test on BJP MLA from Bhopal, Dhruv Narayan Singh, in connection with the murder of RTI activist Shehla Masood. Singh underwent the test for several hours on Saturday at the Central Forensic Science Laboratory in New Delhi as the previous attempt of the CBI to carry out polygraph test on him remained inconclusive on March 19, sources in the probe agency...
07:56 PM, Mar 24, 2012
Kanpur: The Uttar Pradesh STF on Monday picked up a close aide of alleged contract killer Irfan, who was arrested by the police in connection with the murder of Bhopal-based RTI activist Shehla Masood. Tabish, who is supposed to be a crucial link in the case, was arrested from his Bekanganj residence based on the inputs given by Irfan during questioning, STF circle officer Triveni Singh said, adding that he...
03:57 PM, Mar 19, 2012
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