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Sonia 'anguished' over denial of rights to Lankan Tamils

Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday demanded an "independent and credible" inquiry into the violation of human rights in Sri Lanka even as she refused to comment on key United Progressive......

Human rights body raps India for sexual violence

India has been accused of "failure" to curb incidents of sexual violence against women and for "restrictions" on right to free speech by global rights group Human Rights Watch, which said the......

How activists become victims in a Maoist environment

A 60-page report by the Human Rights Watch titled 'Between Two Sets of Guns: Attacks on Civil Society Activists in India's Maoist Conflict', documents human rights abuses against activists in......

Right time to move decisively against corruption: PM

Following is the transcript of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's speech at the Governors' Conference at the Rashtrapati Bhawan on Sunday October 30, 2011New DelhiI am happy to address the closing......

Abolish death penalty, Pak rights body asks govt

Pakistan's top human rights body has asked the government to fulfill its commitment made three years ago to abolish the death penalty and demanded that an informal moratorium on executions should......

How Bt brinjal can kill Indian agriculture

Dr Shiv Chopra, the 75-year-old, Canada-based microbiologist and well known human rights activist, was in India recently in connection with the release of his latest book, Corrupt To The Core -......

'Unrecognised schools hardly have any teaching'

Today's Budget may well have an allocation for the Right to Education Act that has activists up in arms, but Human Resources Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal is convinced their fears are......

'More a lawyer's Budget than the finance minister's'

Soon after Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram presented the Union Budget 2013 in Parliament, Trinamool Congress leader and former Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi joined us for the Budget chat.An......

Has UPA killed the India growth story?

India growth story has been deeply hurt by a suffocating bureaucracy and a workforce, which is 'unskilled'.Steven Rattner, is popularly known as the Car Czar of Obama Administration. This is......

Column: The POSITIVE side of reforms

We are living in exciting times. Arvind Kejriwal is uncovering the unholy nexus between business and political power. Politicians as a class need to worry about their credibility. Governments are......

Watch Maqbool. It is class!

All humans are said to have scruples. Right? But the underworld is no stranger to murders and takeovers. Right?Now, the tough part is believing that Miya Maqbool (Irrfan) goes through such intense......

Aamir Khan's Satyameva Jayate played it safe

Fine packaging is not desirable when the stuff inside is about the real India, says Sheela Bhatt of Aamir Khan's television debut. Did you see the first episode of Aamir Khan's Satyameva Jayate on......

Russia will be ready for 2014 Winter Olympics: Putin

President Vladimir Putin told Olympic chiefs on Wednesday that Russia would have its facilities ready in time to host the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, despite rising costs and concerns about......

'Match-fixing is on the decline; spot-fixing is easier'

Cricket was scarred for life after the match-fixing episode in the late 1990s. It was only after the Delhi police came up with evidence against disgraced, late former South Africa captain Hansie......

Suresh Saraiya, one of the best-loved radio commentators

Haresh Pandya pays tribute to noted radio commentator Suresh Saraiya, who passed away in Mumbai on Wednesday following a heart attack. July 18, 2012, turned out to be a sad day for Hindi cinema and......

Pak pacer Asif appeals against ICC ban

Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Asif has filed an appeal against his five-year ban by the ICC with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Switzerland. The ICC anti-corruption tribunal had banned......

Blatter apologises but will not resign

Embattled FIFA president Sepp Blatter apologised for his controversial comments about racism Friday but said he would not be resigning despite a growing clamour in Britain for him to step down.......

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Q. we lament about corruption and malpractices in every field of life and blame the culprits sky high with venom.....could you vouch you would not have done similarly in same situations? How many of us can say no to a 5 lac bribe?
Manas: A. more

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Q. Many think that human right activists in India have been seen to be more supportive to the perpetrators of crime rather than the victim. Do you think they have any hidden agenda for this?
Gestapo: A. you're right...being human is also being easily tempted more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/many-think-that-human-right-activists-in-india-have-been-see/24839232/answers/25577368

Q. What is the reason for people not believing in God being punished? I read that good deeds of such people will not be accepted. So if someone does all he can do to help people and be useful to the society, he will be punished nevertheless if he did not believe in God. But what exactly is the reason of punishing a good man for his atheism?
Truth Exposed: A. only if they are corrupt otherwise they are fighting a lot for human rights more

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Q. What are the fundamental or human rights in Islam that had been granted by God as found in the Quran ?
Truth Exposed: A. Praise be to Allaah. It is the matter of common sense that man has been created, and the created being must have a Creator. The Creator of man is...... more

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Q. It is matter of great laughable that the outgoing evil and wicket man Hu Jintao created a big, big mess of corruption system in China during his 10 years rule and then asks his sucessor Xi Jingping to put an end to corruption. Xi Jinping should arrest Hu jintao and put into prison for creating corruption system and for torturing and killing millions of Chinese and Tibetans and leaving behing a huge human rights and political mess in China and Tibet.
Chanakya: A. Let there be no compulsion in religion.Mankind! We created you from a single soul, male and female, and made you into nations and tribes, that you...... more

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Violence in Russia's North Caucasus kills four

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NHRC moved against Jagneswar handcuffing

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Goodbye Asgharsaab

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From Theory to Practice / It's Time to Guarantee the Capacity of Human Rights Defenders to Act / Preliminary findings of a fact-finding mission on the situation of human rights defenders

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SSB ignores RTI, remains mum on sexual harassment cases

Sukhbir, a resident of Haryana's Patoudi village, had sought information related to sexual harassment charges brought against Commandant, Deputy... ...

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