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
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
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
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
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa on Wednesday assured a delegation from the People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE), who briefed her about the risks of the Kudankulam nuclear power project, that she would go through their report, said an activist present at the meeting. "Madam (Jayalalithaa) was very cordial and listened intently to our submissions. The meeting lasted around 20 minutes. She did not ask us to withdraw...
06:14 PM, Feb 29, 2012
New Delhi: Whistleblower website WikiLeaks on Monday claimed to have in possession 'millions' of Stratfor mails that establish its links with Dow Chemicals, one of the prime accused in the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster. Stratfor is a US-based intelligence firm. WikiLeaks alleged that it had proof that Stratfor monitored and analysed online activities of the Bhopal activists, reportedly on Dow's asking. One of the activists, Rachna Dhingra said that she...
07:21 PM, Feb 27, 2012
Chennai: Activists spearheading the anti-Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) protests on Friday requested the Tamil Nadu government to expand a new four-member panel that will look into the plant's safety aspects and also remove an atomic scientist from it. The People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) welcomed the setting up of the panel on Thursday, but demanded the removal of M.R. Srinivasan from the expert committee. But PMANE's coordinator S.P....
04:02 PM, Feb 10, 2012
London: Actor Johnny Depp has come under fire from religious activists for his new Christmas-themed track. The 48-year-old teamed up with British rockers Babybird to record 'The Jesus Stag Night Club', which tells a story of a boozing Christ-like figure in a strip club. But the track has caused uproar amongst religious groups including the Focus on Family campaign. "We are sickened by Mr Depp's behaviour. Why did he need...
12:47 PM, Dec 05, 2011
New Delhi: A group of anti-corruption activists led by Subramanian Swamy will file a complaint with CBI seeking registration of a case against unnamed persons with regard to black money stashed away in tax havens. Swami, who heads an Action Committee against corruption in India (ACACI), said registration of an FIR against unnamed persons won't be a problem and after that he will approach court seeking Letters Rogatory to seek...
06:28 PM, Nov 03, 2011
New Delhi: In a move to protect the Right to Information (RTI) activists in the country, the Central Information Commission (CIC) has adopted a new resolution. According to the resolution, if an RTI activist is murdered or assaulted the information that he was seeking will automatically need to be put up on the website of the government department concerned. The principal behind this is that the RTI activist is assaulted...
09:33 AM, Oct 05, 2011
London: Internet activists accused governments of making it difficult for users of the Web, rights campaigners and private businesses to carry out their work through state attempts to seize control of the Web. They said state officials were getting bolder in their drive to regulate the Web that has fueled Arab revolutions, enabled mass leaks of US diplomatic cables and allowed online piracy to thrive. "What we have seen in...
09:34 AM, Sep 28, 2011
Ahmedabad: RTI activists from across the state of Gujarat gathered in Ahmedabad to share stories of their struggle against the government. Over the past few months several activists have been threatened, beaten and even killed in the state. There has been still no justice for the family of Amit Jethwa who was gunned down over a year ago. The RTI activist was attempting to expose illegal mining around the Gir...
09:04 AM, Jul 25, 2011
CNN-IBN talks to activists over Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad's comment, 'Homosexuality is unnatural.' ...
09:59 PM, Jul 05, 2011
Paris: Tens of thousands of revelers turned out on Saturday for a gay pride parade in Paris, many of them hailing the legalization of gay marriage in New York and demanding that France follow suit. Marchers, dressed in drag, brassieres or striped sailor outfits, paraded under a sea of rainbow-colored flags and jigged to thumping techno beats on slow-moving truck beds that became moveable dance floors. Elsewhere in Europe, however,...
10:59 AM, Jun 26, 2011
Manama, Bahrain: A security court sentenced eight Shiite activists to life in prison on Wednesday and issued long jail terms for 13 others in the latest blow by authorities waging a crackdown against protesters seeking greater rights in the Gulf kingdom. Shiite crowds blocked roads with sand piles and called for protest marches " suggesting that the court decision could spark another round of unrest after months of lockdown-level security...
05:40 PM, Jun 22, 2011
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