(The Hindu T.L.Sankar, retired IAS officer (left), Magsaysay awardee Aruna Roy and former chief secretary Madhava Rao at first memorial lecture on S.R.Sankaran, in Hyderabad on Sunday. Photo: G. Krishnaswamy)
National Advisory Council member and social activist Aruna Roy has allayed apprehensions about the proposed Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence Bill 2011 claiming that it was aimed at shifting the onus to the government.  read more »

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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 »

Nagpur /Mangalore Aug 1 -Hitting out at the National Advisory Council (NAC), Vishwa Hindu Parishad's international general secretary, Praveen Togadia, today said the saffron organisation will launch an agitation to oppose the draft `Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence' bill. He alleged that NAC, headed by Sonia Gandhi, was anti-Hindu and it wanted to brand the community as "criminal tribe" through the bill. Such a "draconian" law did not exist even in the Mughal or the British periods, he said.  read more »