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		<title>Pressure by media leads to hasty judgement: PM</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a381089.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[India has a very free press and an increasingly active civil society movement, but they do put pressure for early action and sometimes these leads to hasty judgement, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Wednesday.
Speaking at a function at his official residence to mark four years of the United Progressive Alliance-II government, the prime minister...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 21:30:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Court query on shielding kids from online exploitation</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Delhi High Court Wednesday asked Facebook and other social networking sites how Indian children could be prevented from knowingly or unknowingly getting exploited by adults online.
A division bench of Justice B.D. Ahmed and Justice Vibhu Bakhru said that in the US the rights of the children were protected by Children's Online Privacy...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 20:39:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Bihar rights panel seeks report on scribe's plight</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taking cognizance of prolonged harassment faced by a journalist and his family by their landlord for not paying an exorbitant rent here, Bihar's rights panel Wednesday sought a report from the city police chief on the issue.
The Bihar Human Rights Commission has directed Patna Senior Superintendent of Police Manu Maharaj to submit a report soon in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 18:09:02 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Tourists can now get Turkish visa in minutes</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turkey has launched an online visa system that enables tourists from 94 countries, including India, to obtain a visa in just a few minutes, officials said Wednesday.
The new system replaces the old 'sticker' and 'stamp-type' visas which were issued at the border gates.
&quot;Those who would like to travel to Turkey for tourism or business purposes...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 17:45:02 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>PETA to hold protest against Air India</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wearing prisoner uniforms and animal masks, activists will stage protest May 23 outside the Air India office here after the carrier backtracked on its ban on transporting animals for cruel tests, the PETA said Wednesday.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) will stage a protest outside Air India office, near Patel Chowk Metro station...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 16:27:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Intellectuals call for support for Irom Sharmila</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a380958.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[A panel of intellectuals including actors, filmmakers and journalists have appealed to the people to join activist Irom Chanu Sharmila in her demand for annulling the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) in Manipur.
&quot;People know Irom Sharmila only as a lady with a tube in her nose. Even I for that matter got to know about her only five...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 13:30:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Cadbury ordered to pay Rs.30,000 compensation</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A consumer court in Tripura has ordered Cadbury India Ltd to pay a compensation of Rs.30,000 to a complainant who found an iron pin inside a chocolate bar made by the company, an official said here Wednesday.
&quot;A man purchased a Cadbury chocolate on Dec 16, 2011, for his three-year-old daughter and found an iron pin inside the bar when the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 13:30:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>NHRC issues notice to Haryana over assault of Dalit boy</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a380873.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Tuesday sought a response from Haryana's director general of police and Kaithal police chief following media reports that a Dalit boy was assaulted by a man who was part of a group which had attacked Dalits earlier as well.
The apex human rights panel has sought reports from the two officials on the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 22:24:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Tibetans faced religious repression: US report</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A US report said people of Tibet faced severe religious repression and societal discrimination throughout 2012 in China, the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) said here Tuesday.
The Chinese government's respect for and protection of religious freedom in Tibet deteriorated markedly with a substantial increase in official interference in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 17:36:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Bengal tells teachers not to 'chastise' students</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of the death of a boy allegedly after he was mercilessly beaten by his school teacher, the West Bengal government has decided to order primary school teachers in the state not to &quot;chastise&quot; a student or &quot;discriminate&quot; between them.
The instructions, to be issued to the primary schools, underscore that teachers...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 23:03:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Tibetans protest near Li's hotel (Lead)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three Tibetan activists Monday defied security and managed to stage a small protest here near the Taj Palace Hotel where Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is staying, police said. Another group of 300 Tibetans held a march elsewhere.
Three Tibetan students climbed a structure in a filling station near Li's hotel and shouted slogans for a free Tibet, an...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 21:03:02 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Man accused of violence against Dalit woman activists arrested</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The man accused of bullying and physically abusing five Dalit woman activists in Uttar Pradesh's Lalitpur district last week, was arrested there Monday, police said. He was presented before a court which sent him to 14 days' judicial custody.
Lalitpur's Superintendent of Police J.P. Singh told IANS that they were on the trail of Sahab Singh Yadav...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 19:57:02 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Three Tibetans protest outside Li's hotel</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a380429.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Tibetan activists Monday defied security and managed to stage a small protest near the Taj Palace Hotel here where Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is staying, police said.
Three Tibetan students climbed on top of a structure in a filling station near the hotel and shouted slogans for a free Tibet, an official said.
They also displayed a banner that...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 11:51:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>DU students petition Sonia Gandhi on four-year course</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teachers and students of Delhi University Sunday marched towards the residence of UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, demanding the scrapping of the four-year undergraduate programme (FYUP). They also submitted a memorandum to her.
&quot;The Delhi University has implemented the four-year graduation course when there is already a huge crunch of resources...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 22:18:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Muslims in Maharashtra start 300-km march for job quota </title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a380364.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[People here trooped out Sunday on the streets to welcome and offer chilled soft drinks to over 1,000 Muslims who embarked on a 300-km Gandhian march to Mumbai demanding reservations in job, an official said.
The protestors started from the sensitive power-loom town of Malegaon after the Friday prayers for Mumbai's Azad Maidan as their destination,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 20:33:02 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>The journey of the land acquisition bill (With Land acquisition bill will lead to corporatization: Activists)</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a380251.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[* The Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2011 is meant to replace the Land Acquisition Act, 1894.
* The 1894 Act does not provide for rehabilitation and resettlement of displaced families. A National Rehabilitation and Resettlement Policy was approved by the government in 2007 to remedy this.
* To give legislative backing to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 13:06:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Land acquisition bill will lead to corporatization: Activists</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a380250.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[While political consensus on the land acquisition bill, hailed as one of the most important reform measures, has been worked out, civil society activists are unhappy with its provisions and say it will lead to &quot;corporatization&quot; of land. They also say it lacks provisions for rehabilitating the displaced.
Activists say the new bill is a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 13:06:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Dalai Lama's abode quiet as Li begins India visit</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There were no protests Sunday in this seat of the Tibetan government-in-exile as Chinese Premier Li Keqiang began his India visit.
Official sources said activists of the Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC), Tibetan Women Association, Students for Free Tibet and the National Democratic Party of India were camping in Mumbai and Delhi.
&quot;There is no...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 13:03:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>NCPCR seeks report on Bengal student's death</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taking cognisance on its own of the death of a class 3 student in West Bengal after being mercilessly beaten by his school teacher, India's apex child rights panel Saturday said it has sought a detailed report from the state's Mamata Banerjee government.
&quot;We have taken a suo motu cognisance of the case and directed the state government to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 22:24:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>UP murder suspect dies due to acid injection, 3 suspended</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a380138.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[A murder suspect was given injections of acid and kerosene during police questioning in Uttar Pradesh, following which he fell sick and died in a hospital here. Three errant policemen were suspended, an official said Saturday.
Accused Balveer was brought to Avagarh police station in Etah district Thursday and allegedly made to sit on a hot plate...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 16:57:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>NHRC summons Odisha chief secretary</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has summoned the Odisha chief secretary for failing to submit a report on the problems faced by patients and Ayush doctors in the state, a petitioner said Saturday.
&quot;Such doctors are being forced to prescribe allopathic medicines although they are not trained for that,&quot; India Media Centre...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 14:15:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>NHRC notice to Haryana over girls' harassment</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a380087.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sought a response from Haryana's chief secretary and director general of police over media reports that panchayats of six villages have decided against sending girls to school over fears of sexual harassment.
The NHRC has sought reports from the two officials over the issue within a month.
The...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 13:27:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>NHRC notice to police officials over woman's death in UP</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a380070.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sought reports from the Ghaziabad police and Government Railway Police over the death of a woman who was allegedly pushed off a train with her infant daughter.
The commission has issued notices to the senior superintendent of police (SSP) Ghaziabad, and the SSP of the city's railway police, directing...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 12:27:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>No expectations from Li, says Tibetan who twice 'breached the wall'</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a379892.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[&quot;No expectations from (new Chinese Premier) Li Keqiang on resolving the vexed issue of Tibet&quot; was the first reaction of activist and poet Tenzin Tsundue who twice &quot;breached the wall&quot; by unfurling protest banners during the visits of Chinese premiers.
&quot;Li continues in the tradition of people like Mao (Zedong), Deng...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 14:30:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Prior approval must to arrest under Section 66A: SC (Lead)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court Thursday said no person would be arrested under Section 66A of the IT Act for posting objectionable comments on social networking websites without prior approval from an officer not below the rank of inspector general of police.
A vacation bench of Justice B.S. Chauhan and Justice Dipak Misra passed the order after hearing a plea...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 22:09:02 +0530</pubDate>
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