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INDIA: Anti-Nuke Protesters Urge Church Leaders to Support Them

They said the Church is letting them down when they desperately need its support and solidarity.

(KERALA, Tamil Nadu) - Anti-nuke protesters have urged Church leaders not to abandon them in their struggle against the Koodankulam nuclear plant in Tamil Nadu.

Some 20 representative from coastal villages of Koodankulam and Nellai in the state met Cardinal Telesphore Toppo at the Velankanni shrine, where all the Church heads had gathered to celebrate the silver jubilee of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India.

Mr President, You Also Will Be Impeached!

Sooner or later, it will happen.

(PARIS) - After all, local and international legal expert Dr. Nihal Jayawickrama has written a thorough article, “End Of Constitutional Governance in Sri Lanka - Gadaffi Also Said ‘The People Love Me’. Nothing more to say.

But I would like to remind President Rajapaksa that one day, he, his family members and his collaborators who are part of many scandalous processes will also be impeached.

Human Rights Ambassador Asked to Protect, Promote and Fulfill the Human Right to Adequate Housing

India castes thousands of its poorest to the street.

(YORK, UK) - Human Rights Ambassador William Nicholas Gomes asks India to observe national and international law in respecting, protecting, promoting and fulfilling the human right to adequate housing.

1,200 homes were bulldozed, and 5,000 slum dwellers evicted from already-impoverished Koramangala in a recent four-day, weekend operation. Several hundred police officers used sticks to evict people and leave them in a perilous state with no access to clean water, no toilets, and no roof over their heads.

Christian Persecution in India 2012 Report

Problems have escalated.

(NEW DELHI ICAN) - Marshaling evidence of communal attacks on minorities, particularly the Christians, secular activists gave a clarion call to the Union Home Minister, Sushilkumar Shinde to take up the Maharashtra home ministry’s proposal to ban the Sanathan Sanstha and Abhinav Bharat, as soon as possible.

A report on Christian Persecution in India – 2012 was released by Justice Michael Saldanha, former judge in the Bombay...

The Whitewashing of Bobby Jindal

A likely presidential contender in 2016, Jindal played his card as a person of color.

(PRINCETON, NJ) - As a "rebuttal" to President Obama's inaugural address, Bobby Jindal, the Indian-American governor of Louisiana, delivered last week before the Republican National Committee what I consider a misleading and somewhat controversial address.

A likely presidential contender in 2016, Jindal played his card as a person of color. Referring to the string of offensive remarks and gaffes made by Republicans against women, minorities and the middle class, Jindal declared: "We've got to stop being the stupid party".

Christian Council for Zero Tolerance on SC / ST Attacks

A few caste and class groups have looted India's national equity.

(NEW DELHI ICAN) - The All India Christian Council has called for a zero tolerance policy on the protection of the dignity and identity of the Dalits and the Tribals of the country.

They continue to be kept out of the development process and see an accelerated pace of the robbing of their natural heritage.

Chelvanayakam was Willing to Settle

Chelvanayakam ‘reluctantly switched his stand to call for a separate state’. The rest is history.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka ) - Samuel James Veluppillai Chelvanayakam was born in Malaysia on 31ST March 1898, one century and fifteen years ago.

He received his secondary education at the Union College, Tellippalai and later became a student at St. Thomas’ College, which was at that time situated at Modera.

Colombo, Tamil Nadu & New Delhi What`s In Them For Sri Lankan Tamils?

The changing scenario in Tamil politics begins with 2005's presidential elections.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) - The impeachment against Chief Justice Dr. Ms. Shirani Bandaranayake was brought to an end with the Rajapaksa government shunning the determination of the apex Courts in Hulftsdorp, to remove her and appoint on 15 January, the new Chief Justice.

Its trusted choice, former Attorney General and thereafter Legal Advisor to the Cabinet of Ministers, Mohan Peiris.

Indian Farmers Trapped and Desperate

Losing the will to live...

(LONDON) - India has the largest number of smallholder farmers in the World, 600 million by some estimates.

From this army of workers one impoverished desperate man, or indeed woman, with a noose of debt around their neck takes his or her own life on average every thirty minutes...

Spurious Debate on Agricultural Productivity

-The Indian Prime Minister and Agricultural Establishment has lost touch with science and reality-

(CHENNAI) - Prime Minister Man Mohan Singh and his economists have been harping on increasing agricultural productivity ever since this group came into positions of power.

Their usual complaint is that agricultural productivity of farmers in India is a drag on the growth rate of Gross Domestic Product.