http://www.allvoices.com/ en-us It is almost a month since very vital disclosures were made by WikiLeaks in respect of the Bhopal Gas Disaster but, surprisingly, the media did not find it of any importance. The disclosures were literally blacked out. People wouldn't have... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/14672358-bhopal-gasleak-wikileaks-exposes-us-role Fri, 24 May 2013 00:16:46 -0700 In History lessons in the primary school we were told about the penchant of the Afghan King Sher Shah Suri for improving the then-existing administrative set-up. An ethnic Afghan, born in Hissar in Punjab, he took control of the Mogul... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/14583700-greening-roads Fri, 10 May 2013 03:47:46 -0700 Hanging fire for decades the Supreme Court resolved the issue the other day. The issue was about relocation of a few Asiatic lions from their only home in the Gir National Park to the already-prepared Kuno Palpur Wildlife Sanctuary in... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/14499146-apex-court-saves-asiatic-lions Sun, 28 Apr 2013 03:59:48 -0700 News came in the other day that the already agitating students of Chennai are going to launch protest rallies when the internationally popular Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty-20 cricket matches take place at the city's hallowed Chepauk ground. They have... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/14449966-vote-against-sri-lanka-indias-muddled-diplomacy Fri, 19 Apr 2013 23:04:58 -0700 For more than sixty five years we have been a democracy and we are even called the largest democracy in the world. Some call our democracy vibrant and some others brand it "raucous". Whatever one might call it, it is... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/14120221-shrinking-freedoms-in-democratic-india Tue, 26 Feb 2013 03:34:46 -0800 The latest reports say that the LoC (Line of Control) between Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) and Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) has cooled down. The cooling has come about after the stern statements made by a mostly mild and a namby... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/13897264-with-blood-on-the-borders-indopak-peace-suffers-setback Sun, 27 Jan 2013 03:19:12 -0800 It was different; it was a different kind of gang-rape that shook not only the nation but also the Diaspora, besides evoking strong and sensitive reactions from abroad. It even prompted the Secretary General of the United Nations to write... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/13794490-a-rape-that-shook-the-nation Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:24:16 -0800 India is celebrating "80 years of Test cricket". The country played its first ever Test match in the Lord's cricket ground in London against England in the summer of 1932 and has since then become a name to reckon with... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/13668125-eighty-years-of-indian-cricket Sat, 22 Dec 2012 23:44:14 -0800 Arvind Kejriwal, of the erstwhile NGO India Against Corruption, has made quite a splash since he went political. Even before he named his outfit as "Aam Aadmi Party" (AAP) he had commenced his campaign against the entrenched political establishment. His... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/13482592-the-end-of-indian-spring Tue, 27 Nov 2012 03:37:18 -0800 According to a recent report the Madhya Pradesh forest department happened to have re discovered the Kerwa and Kathotia forests that adjoin Bhopal. A 15-day operation by it with the help of as many as six elephants borrowed from different... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/13372077-while-chasing-tigers-foresters-re-discover-a-vibrant-forest Fri, 09 Nov 2012 23:46:40 -0800 With a rapidly growing population, increasing pressures of development and unconcerned public authorities wildlife in India do not seem to have a chance. A recent list of most threatened species of animals, plants and fungi jointly compiled by the International... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/13187679-critically-endangered-great-indfian-bustard Mon, 15 Oct 2012 03:49:08 -0700 The other day while listening to a programme on the fm of Radio Mirchi my mind travelled back long years to 1948 when we got the first radio in our house. My late second brother got a first division in... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/13117032-the-radios-of-yore-an-eulogy Thu, 04 Oct 2012 04:19:25 -0700 Regardless of the tons of toxic wastes littered in the Union Carbide factory site, the Madhya Pradesh government has been pursuing with the Centre a proposal for awarding the status of Global Environment City on Bhopal. The city already has... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/13087761-bhopal-tigers-in-its-backyard Sun, 30 Sep 2012 02:30:09 -0700 Before the commencement of the 2012 Olympic Games in London, the gas-affected people of Union Carbide, Bhopal and their several organisations mounted a protracted campaign against the Dow's sponsorship of it. The Dow funded the £7 million wrap around the... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/12865915-dow-denies-succour-to-bhopal-despite-its-newfound-environmentalism Wed, 29 Aug 2012 04:38:19 -0700 Looking around one comes across a kind of darkness that seems to be descending on the country. It is somewhat like what the Nobel Laureate, VS Naipaul, described in his travelogue, "An Area of Darkness", but, perhaps more forbidding as... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/12676394-return-of-the-darkness Sat, 28 Jul 2012 04:06:26 -0700 Despite a dire warning issued by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) about the catastrophe that Planet Earth was headed for, the recent United Nations Rio+20 Conference at Rio de Janeiro on sustainable development proved to be a damp squib.... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/12518928-planet-earth-near-tipping-point Wed, 04 Jul 2012 00:49:09 -0700 All is surely not well with the Health Administration of the country. The other day two shocking revelations were made in the press. One of them related to detection of serious irregularities by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on health and... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/12291627-indias-corrupt-health-administration Fri, 01 Jun 2012 01:02:33 -0700 A time seems to have come when people should give up cooking. A recent report said that a domestic LPG cylinder is soon going to cost Rs. 996/-, virtually a thousand rupees, for those who have an income of more... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/12181217-its-time-to-give-up-food Thu, 17 May 2012 04:40:47 -0700 Urbanisation is a phenomenon that is closely linked to industrialisation and modernisation. More and more people are flocking to urban centres seeking well-being and prosperity. There is no gainsaying the fact that urban areas are centres of economic opportunities and... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/11808558-checking-urban-sprawl-the-us-way Wed, 28 Mar 2012 04:22:06 -0700 More than a hundred and fifty years old organisation, India Post is one of the giant departments of the government of India. With around 155000 post offices it is the biggest postal system in the world employing close to 500,000... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/11607204-reinventing-indian-post-office Wed, 29 Feb 2012 03:45:14 -0800