Police torture kills 1,184 persons in custody in India in the last eight years – Maharashtra records the highest deaths in police custody – http://www.achrweb.org/press/2009/IND0209.html
FCC South Asia, New Delhi: Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) in its report
Torture in India 2009 released to the media today stated that in the last eight years (from 1 [...]
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July 7, 2009
Police torture kills 1,184 persons in custody
July 6, 2009
Liberhan Wanted To Extricate Advani
“It Was Apparent That Justice Liberhan Wanted To Extricate Advani From The Babri Demolition”
In 1999, Anupam Gupta, a respected lawyer of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, was appointed counsel for the Liberhan Commission set up to inquire into the Babri Masjid demolition. He left it in 2007 when serious differences cropped up between him [...]
July 2, 2009
Babri report: You actually took 17 years, Mr Liberhan?
By Anand Soondas To be brutally honest, it is a sheer and blatant travesty of “investigation” to take almost two decades to close what was little more than an open and shut case. Leaders were seen inciting mobs to tear down the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya on a day that may have permanently changed for [...]
July 1, 2009
First Malayalam TV Reporter Dies
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, Kerala (SAR News) – Malayalam Television’s first reporter passed away 29 June at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala’s state capital. He was 48 years old. Survived by his wife and daughter, John Ulahannan was interned at his home parish in Kidangoor near Pala (Kottayam District), 1st July.
His body was kept for public viewing both at Doordarshan Kendra [...]
June 30, 2009
Spiritual Adoption of Priests!
Year for Priests Special: A Worldwide Campaign
Priests are the greatest benefactors of humanity because it is through them that Christ continues to re-enact his unique sacrifice for the salvation of humankind. It is through them that he extends his forgiving hands and opens his heart full of Divine Mercy. Called to be the living monuments [...]
June 21, 2009
Pakistani Christian Murdered for drinking tea from a Muslim Cup
International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that radical Muslims running a tea stall beat a Christian man to death for using a cup designated for Muslims on May 9. The young man, Ishtiaq Masih, had ordered tea at a roadside stall in Machharkay village, Punjab, Pakistan, after his bus stopped to allow passengers to relieve [...]
June 20, 2009
Brain washing of Meghalaya kids in varna system
Shimoga, Jun 19: Sri Raghaveshwara Bharati Swamiji, spiritual head of Ramachandrapur Mutt Hosanagar, has provided shelter and is trying to rekindle hope besides driving home a sense of security among a hundred migrant children from Meghayala state. He has taken upon himself the responsibility of tending and educating them.
During his visit to Meghalaya some time [...]
June 19, 2009
USCIRF Regrets Absence of Visas for Visit to India
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) regrets that visas have not been issued by the Indian government for a USCIRF visit to discuss religious freedom conditions with officials, religious leaders, civil society activists and others in the world’s largest democracy.
As a U.S. government body, visits by the Commission must have [...]
June 18, 2009
Amazing Auto Driver in Mumbai*
Suvendu Roy of Titan Industries shares his inspirational encounter with a rickshaw driver in Mumbai.
Last Sunday, my wife, kid and I had to travel to Andheri from Bandra. When I waved at a passing auto rickshaw, little did I expect that this ride would be any different?
As we set off, my eyes fell on a [...]
June 17, 2009
Orissa: Memmorandum to National Minority Commission
The Hon’ble Members of the Minority Commission, Govt. of India, New Delhi, 10th June 2009
Dear Madam / Sir,
On behalf of Orissa United Forum of Churches I would like to appreciate your concern and constant support for the affected people of Kandhamal. After the communal violence, the members of the Minority Commission have [...]
