Though the marriage of a child is unlawful under the laws of Pakistan the
police took the shelter behind Shariah Law to facilitate the union between
an 85-year-old man and a minor of 12 years.
Though the marriage of a child is unlawful under the laws of Pakistan the
police took the shelter behind Shariah Law to facilitate the union between
an 85-year-old man and a minor of 12 years.
On September 28, 1991, Shankar Guha Niyogi put aside his copy of Lenin on Trade Unions and Revolutions, and fell asleep under a mosquito net in his room on the ground floor of an apartment in the Bhilai industrial township. In the early hours of the morning, a young man rode up to the house, looked in through the bedroom’s well-lit window and shot him dead. At the time, Niyogi stood at the helm of a movement to unionise the
thousands of contract workers employed in factories across what would become the State of Chhattisgarh. Twenty years on, as India appraises the legacy of two decades of economic reforms, Niyogi’s life and violent end offer a snapshot of the turbulence that presaged the dawn of the India’s ‘New Economy’.
We, the undersigned, express our deep concern regarding the continuous arrests of Indian and Pakistani fishermen and confiscation of their boats by each country of the other. The poor, innocent fishermen go to sea to catch fish and in the deep sea it becomes virtually impossible for them to recognise where their countries waters end and other’s start.
The Planning Commission’s poverty straightjacket is but one of a series of obstacles faced by “aspirants†to the BPL status.
Police arrested a prominent trade union leader in Kabirwala on 29
September without any FIR, transferred him from one police station to
other. Kabirwala police arrested Muhammad Hussain Bhatti, President
Nestle Employees Union without any charge. The workers protested
against the arrest and blocked the road. When police assured to
present Bhatti at court next morning, these workers finished their
protest. Late night the police raided at the residences of workers
arrested many of them in Khanewal and Kabirwala on the charge of
protest and road blocking.
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