on the night of May 26, 1985. They were picked up from their advocate's house in the town, and taken 54 kms in a jeep to the village of Narsapur and killed there. The magisterial enquiry indicted...
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OIL PRICES Stability Still a Long Way V K Srinivasan THE expectation that the OPEC meeting in Geneva on April 15 will resolve some essential questions to enable the oil market to move towards...
swings in oil prices. The disclosure that Watanabe was scheduled to visit Saudi Arabia in late April and Great Britain sometime later was sufficient indication of a global concern for early...
LABOUR Port and Dock Workers Prepare for Strike Gurbir Singh AFTER an all-India strike by dock and port workers of the 10 major ports in the country lasting 26 days and costing workers Rs four crore...
MAHARASHTRA The Chandrapur Arrests BETWEEN April 16 and May I there was an unprecedented police crackdown on 19 alleged "top" Naxalites in Chandrapur district of Maharashtra. Not only was the...
small dams on rivers and other small irrigation schemes which will benefit a lot of people without displacing a large number of others from their homes and fields.
Paving the Way for Islamic Criminal Laws Ashok Rudra ONE might have thought that everything that could be said against the Bill relating to the maintenance of divorced Muslim women, containing the...
BIHAR Agrarian Movement in Jehanabad (By a Special Correspondent) DURING the last few years, a tierce agrarian struggle is being waged in the South and Western Bihar districts of Patna, Bhojpur,...
RAJASTHAIN Ecological Ruin and Exploitation Bharat Dogra IN Katarapara village of Dhangaon panchayat, in Dangarpur district of South Rajasthan, a widow looked at her two starving children and did...
GUJARAT Ghost Industrial Training Institute Mathew Kalathil THE disclosures about tampering with marks of MD students in a medical college in Bombay have been shocking. A fraud of even greater...
romantic notion of strengthening the agricultural base of Indian society, ignoring the obvious limits that even such developments come up against. In any case, it is hardly flattering to the '...
KARNATAKA Many Faces of Drought Janaki Nair 'IF the sky fails, the earth will fail', so goes an Andhra proverb. As early as April 1985 the people of Karnataka anxiously scanned the skies, after...
GUJARAT Ghost Industrial Training Institute Mathew Kalathil THE disclosures about tampering with marks of MD students in a medical college in Bombay have been shocking. A fraud of even greater...
remember the earlier 'natural' agrarian system in India it is not so far away or long ago
DELHI Terror in the Walled City Report of an Investigation THE PUCL (Delhi) undertook an investigation into the factors that led to the killing of two youngmen in a police firing on Friday, February...
