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NOVANEWS India rejects ‘superbug’ claims August 13, 2010  by Michael Leon   NDM-1, Superbug - A study in The Lancet, a British medical journal, said that a newfound NDM-1 bacteria, or New Delhi metallo-lactamase-1, is a new type of antibiotic-resistant bug that had been carried from India to the UK.  By Al Jazerra India has forcefully stated that its hospitals are safe after researchers said that medical tourists to the country had caught a new “superbug”. Some Indian politicians on Thursday said that there is a conspiracy against the country’s rising medical tourism industry. A study in The Lancet, a British medical journal, said that a newfound NDM-1 bacteria, or New Delhi metallo-lactamase-1, is a new type of antibiotic-resistant bug that had been carried from India to the UK. The jou...

 NOVANEWS Orissa - Anti-Vedanta Dongria Kondh leader Lado Sikaka abducted Rajeesh | August 12, 2010  Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pglpM-1T1 By Surya Shankar Dash. (Source : forestrights listserv from Sanhati)) August 10, 2010 Note 2 The story of Lado’s disappearance might not be as simple as we have assumed.This is what Bhawanipatna based activist Sidhart Naik (President of Green Kalahandi) has to say - About 15 Dongria Kondh people along with Sidharth Naik, Kumti Majhi, etc. were travelling in two vehicles to eventually go to Raipur from where they were to catch a train to Delhi in order to attend a meeting on 12 August. Before leaving Niyamgiri forest they were intercepted by another two vehicles with gunmen in it. Sidharth Naik says they were more likely to be goons and n...

  NOVANEWS   San Francisco: Aug 13 Protest against the Indian Government's "Operation Green Hunt" Rajeesh | August 12, 2010  | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pglpM-1T2 Where: Indian Consulate in San Francisco (540 Arguello Boulevard) When: 11 am, August 13 2010 The Government of India has launched a domestic war named Operation Green Hunt in the forested regions of East-Central India, stretching from the states of Chhattisgarh to Jharkhand and West Bengal. This region is home to significant amounts of natural resources. Big corporations, both Indian and foreign, are plundering these natural resources for quick profits and plan to continue doing so while paying almost no attention to the enormous environmental and human costs inherent in their ventures. Th...

NOVANEWS In Chhattisgarh's war zone, no value on an Adivasi's life Rajeesh | August 10, 2010 at 9:31 pm | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pglpM-1SX After ‘encounter,' police try to buy villagers' silence with Rs. 3,100 and packets of biscuits, chivda. The monsoon skies have cleared over this village in Dantewada district, but a cloud of doubt still lingers over the site of last week's encounter between the police and suspected cadres of the CPI (Maoist). On August 4, according to the official version, the Koya commandos spent 18 hours combing through the rain-soaked forests near Kutrem, during which they broke through a Maoist ambush, engaged in a fierce gun battle lasting several hours and ultimately recovered the body of a uniformed Maoist fighter, a 12 bore shotgu...

NOVANEWS   Condemn the murder of Comrade Azad and Hem Pandey -Demonstration at Indian High Commission London on 15th August 2010 Rajeesh | August 7, 2010  | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pglpM-1Sf Condemn the murder of Comrade Azad and Hem Pandey - Mobilise for demonstration at Indian High Commission on 15th August 2010 The Coordination Committee of the Revolutionary Communists of Britain condemns the killing of Comrade Cherukuri Rajkumar spokesperson for the CPI Maoist popularly known as Azad and journalist Hem Pandey by the Indian State. The killing of comrade Azad who was involved in peace negotiations exposes the criminal comprador nature of the Indian State which has declared War on its own patriotic people and has a programme of selective assassina...

  Wall painting on Western Rrailway wall, Tulasi Pipe Road Mumbai   Wall painting on Western Rrailway wall, Tulasi pipe road Mumbai  

  NOVANEWS   Rajeesh | August 7, 2010 at 8:34 pm | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pglpM-1So

NOVANEWS India’s Maoists’ solidarity with Kashmir: ‘Support the just national liberation struggle’ Rajeesh | August 6, 2010 at 7:19 pm | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pglpM-1RZ Posted: August 4, 2010 by BJ Murphy in India 02 Aug 2010 Srinagar: In an emphatic statement issued Friday CPI (Maoist) extended the party’s backing for right of self determination to Kashmiris and appealed to people of India to support the “just national liberation struggle of the people of Kashmir”. The party said ‘Kashmir belongs to Kashmiris’ and appealed people of India to “strongly oppose daily firing of Kashmiri people”, raise their voice against state atrocities and “heartless killing of youth by armed forces”. “Fearlessly support the just national liberation struggle of the peop...

NOVANEWS Protest Against Operation Green Hunt in New York, August 13 2010 Rajeesh | August 6, 2010 at 7:09 pm | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pglpM-1RY Press Release, Sanhati.com August 5, 2010 Protest Against the Indian Government’s “Operation Green Hunt” Where: At the Consulate in New York City (3 East 64th Street) When: On August 13 at 11 a.m. Contact: communications [at] sanhati [dot] com NEW YORK CITY – Sanhati, and other organizations and individuals, are organizing a protest against the Indian government’s insidious war, named “Operation Green Hunt,” which has been unleashed on the inhabitants of the forested regions of East-Central India. The protest will approximately coincide with Indian Independence Day (August 15) to emphasize that the promises of...

NOVANEWS   Maoist Leader Varanasi Subramanyam encircled in Delhi .. AP Police in Delhi to abduct and murder Central Committee member Varanasi Subramanyam Rajeesh | August 4, 2010  | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pglpM-1RU AP Police in Delhi to abduct and murder Central Committee member Varanasi Subramanyam Maoist central committee leader Varanasi Subramanyam is said to have been 'encircled' by the police and Maoist sympathisers are fearing harm to him by the police. Virasam member Vara Vara Rao said Subramanyam alias Suraj alias Srikanth alias Sukanth was encircled by police somewhere near Delhi. "We have specific information that Subramanyam is encircled by the police though we don't know the exact location. It is possible he is in Delhi as he operates ...