Amnesty International India Executive Director Aakar Patel

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Centre treating human rights organisations like criminal enterprises: Amnesty

IMAGE: Amnesty International office building, where Enforcement Directorate conducted a raid in connection with a foreign exchange contravention case against the human rights watchdog, in......

Amnesty India calls for end to ED's 'smear campaign'

Amnesty India has alleged that a deliberate attempt has been made by the government to tarnish the reputation of the human rights organisation by leaking a dossier, supposedly made by the......

No employee raised any slogan at any point: Amnesty clarifies after sedition case

Amnesty International’s India chapter on Tuesday said none of its employee had shouted any anti-India slogan at an event on Kashmir in Bengaluru, allegations based on which sedition charges......

India saw 19.8 per cent dip in awarding death sentences in 2017

An Amnesty report stated that 109 cases of execution were reported in the country in 2017 as compared to 136 such cases in 2016. India saw a dip in imposition of capital punishment last year with......

J&K activist Khurram Parvez booked under PSA after court orders release

A sessions court in Srinagar ordered the release of human rights activist Khurram Parvez, who was taken into preventive detention for allegedly posing an imminent threat of breach of peace, but he......

Bullet train costs 3 times more than India's health budget

The vanity project, of absolutely no use to most Indians, will suck money that could be used for health and education, says Aakar Patel. (This column is being repromoted as Prime Minister Narendra......

Why I salute Azim Premji

'Azim Premji has given away about one-and-a-half lakh crore rupees of his wealth.''Most of us will not even know what that sum actually means.''To put it into context, it can fund India's health......

What will it take for India to be a superpower

'There is an insistence that the government bring about reforms if India is to succeed. The fact is that many nations have done reforms, but are not Great Powers,' says Aakar Patel. What does......

What will it take for India to be rich?

'China's development is on a different scale from India's. They are very far ahead.' 'I don't think it will be possible in the next 30 years for us to catch them,' says Aakar Patel.Photograph:......

Is India in for hard times this year?

'The most important issue for Indians, the only way in which to get them quickly out of poverty, is sustained high growth.' 'If we are not doing that despite a strong government and a leader with......

Why Bollywood is not growing

'Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan now act in only about one film each year, and made money through advertisements and television.''This meant that many people, even if they had the money......

What will we achieve by boycotting Pakistan in World Cup?

'Random displays of anger will end in punishment from the IOC and the loss of points in the World Cup, without achieving what we seek,' says Aakar Patel. IMAGE: India and Pakistan Captains Virat......