The Vedas date back to 6000 BC, Sanskrit scholars brainstorming on the dates of the ancient texts at a conclave organised by Delhi University’s Sanskrit … DU Sanskrit meet pushes back period of Vedas to 6000 BCRead more
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Greenpeace India ‘Refuses to be Intimidated’
Greenpeace India, which has been fighting for its life in the face of a government suppression, said on Wednesday that its office in the eastern … Greenpeace India ‘Refuses to be Intimidated’Read more
Posted inFisheries / Government / India / Social
Fishermen urge govt. to drop project
The Coastal Karnataka Fishermen Action Committee has urged the State government to drop the Yettinahole project as diversion of water from the tributary of the … Fishermen urge govt. to drop projectRead more
Posted inFascism / India / Politics / ToMl
Riot Rewards – BJP’s Vote Share Increases After Hindu-Muslim Clashes
During a recent TV debate on Dadri lynching the BJP spokesperson presented an interesting hypothesis on riots and the party’s electoral performance. According to him, … Riot Rewards – BJP’s Vote Share Increases After Hindu-Muslim ClashesRead more
Posted inFascism / India / Religion
Australian couple say police gave them a ‘lesson on Hindu values’
Matthew Gordon (21), the Australian who was confronted by a group of local people at a restaurant here on Saturday for sporting a goddess tattoo … Australian couple say police gave them a ‘lesson on Hindu values’Read more
Posted inIndia / Patent / Software
IBM is Again Attacking Free/Libre Software by Pushing for Patents on Software
Manny Schecter, the Chief Patent Counsel from IBM, is lobbying for software patents in India. IBM wants software patents everywhere (not just the US), quite … IBM is Again Attacking Free/Libre Software by Pushing for Patents on SoftwareRead more
Posted inFascism / India
Indian man lynched over beef rumours
[Even if it was not mutton, why to kill a person for that? Because fascism is paving way to the capital to concentrate more.] A … Indian man lynched over beef rumoursRead more
Posted inBiodiversity / India / News
More Indian birds enter list of threatened species
The Red List of birds released by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) for 2015 shows that a total of 180 bird species … More Indian birds enter list of threatened speciesRead more
Posted inIndia / Organic / ToMl
India’s independent farmers embrace organic
For two decades, Mahender Singh grew his vegetables without chemicals on his 10-acre plot of land in Pipal Mangoli, a village in southeastern Punjab. Then … India’s independent farmers embrace organicRead more