Delhi
There is no question of the Union government withdrawing the Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence (Access to Justice and Reparations) Bill, 2011, Corporate Affairs Minister M. Veerappa Moily informed on Sunday.Much had been debated on the Bill since 2005. It had been discussed at all levels of the State. There was a national consensus on the government going ahead with the Bill, he told a press conference here.  read more »

St Stephen's principal Valson Thampu and MP Sandeep Dikshit who has come down hard on his alma mater, calling the college a "communal institution". In retaliation, Thampu challenged Dikshit on Friday to substantiate the allegation and questioned his contribution to the college as an alumnus.  read more »

Anna’s social fascism
By Kancha Ilaiah, The Deccan Chronicle, September 7, 2011
http://www.deccanchronicle.com/columnists/kancha-ilaiah/anna%E2%80%99s-s...
The recent happenings in Delhi around the issue of the Lokpal Bill have been celebrated by the media as people’s victory, pinned down on Team Anna Hazare. But the majority of the “masses” of this country, living in institutional caste and class enclosures, are not yet part of the “civil society” that the victorious group was talking about.  read more »

National Coordination Committee for Dalit Christians (NCCDC)
& National Council of Dalit Christians (NCDC)
are organizing a
Massive Hunger Strike from 25th July to 27th July 2011 at New Delhi

Concluding with a Parliament March on 28th July 2011  read more »

Forty-four child labourers, all of them trafficked from Bihar and working in leather goods units, were rescued by authorities in north-west Delhi today.  read more »

Wednesday, 8 December

A stamp commemorating 100 years The beginning of the 600-bed St Stephens Hospital in Delhi is the story of compassion of a 16-year-old girl who came all the way from England in 1858 determined to do her bit to improve the lot of women in all possible ways by providing education and health care , sadly lacking in those days.  read more »