Happy and relieved, women's bill was worth the risk, says Sonia
March 10th, 2010: (Credit: IANS) "I am very happy," Congress president Sonia Gandhi declared on Tuesday after the Rajya Sabha passed the women's bill to reserve a third of seats in all legislatures for women, adding the "larger picture" of women's empowerment was worth the political risk that the ruling coalition had taken. Speaking to NDTV's Barkha Dutt, Gandhi said she was grateful to all the political parties who helped the bill to pass, including the Left, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) "and our coalition partners". She ...
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"We intend to get the bill passed in the Lok Sabha before March 16."
Swedish newspapers reprint Prophet cartoon
March 10th, 2010: (Credit: IANS) Several Swedish newspapers on Wednesday reprinted a controversial caricature of the Prophet Mohammed as a dog, the day after an alleged plot to murder the cartoonist was disclosed. Seven arrests were reported on Tuesday in Ireland while one woman was charged in the US for conspiring to commit terrorism. The target of the alleged murder plot was Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who made the caricature in 2007. Vilks has been ...Read More..
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