Rapes in India Rise By 873 per cent from 1953
The number of rapes in India shot up from 1953 to 2011 by a staggering 873 per cent.
Sexual crimes against women have been rising alarmingly all across the country,according to a report in the Peoples Democracy.Among the metros Delhi topped the list with 2620 rape cases from 2007 to 2011.Mumbai had 1033 cases,Bangalore 383,Chennai 293 and Kolkata 200.
This was three times faster than all cognisable crimes put together and three and half faster than murder.
And what is the worrysome fact is that in three of the four cases of rape,the culprits went unpunished in Delhi between 2002 and 2011.
In a survey conducted by Thomson Reuters Trust Law Women,a hub of information and support for women’s rights,India ranked with Afghanistan,Congo and Somalia as one of the most dangerous places for women.
(Source; The New Indian Express)

The Railways topped the list of alleged graft complaints against its employees with 8805 complaints received by the Central Vigilance Commission.In its annual report tabled in Parliament states that no sector was ‘corrupt free’ and the total complaints received amounts to 51367

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Another anti-people bill,the the Banking Laws(Amendment)Bill has been passed by the Loksabha on 18th December,2012

despite strong opposition by the left parties.The bill seeks to raise the voting rights of the investors in private sector banks

to 26 per cent from 10 per cent and increase the cap on voting rights of private investors in Public Sector Banks to 10 per cent

from 1 per cent.This will enable the corporates both Indian and foriegn to capture full control of the Indian banking system and

the advantages and facilities being enjoyed by the common people after the nationalisation of banks will be nullified.The rural

population,especially the poor farmers will be the worst sufferers.

The bank employees and officers have already decided to launch a nationwide STRIKE on 20-12-2012 against this draconian bill and it is the bounden

duty of all the country loving people to support the strike.

Perhaps the real tragedy we must contemplate, as we consider the story of the young woman who now lies in a Delhi hospital bed battling for her life after being brutally beaten and gang-raped Sunday night, is this: in six months or less, she will have been forgotten. There will, by then, have been the next victim, and the one after — and absolutely nothing will have changed. Ever since Sunday’s savage crime, India’s political leadership has been loudly engaged in what it appears to believe is advocacy of women’s rights — in the main, dramatic but meaningless calls for summary trials, castration and mandatory death penalties. The same leaders will, if past record proves a guide, do absolutely nothing to actually address the problem. For all the noise that each gang-rape has provoked, Parliament has made no worthwhile progress towards desperately-needed legal reforms. Even nuts-and-bolts measures, like enhanced funding for forensic investigations, upgrading training of police to deal with sexual crimes, and making expert post-trauma support available to victims, are conspicuous by their absence.

How does one account for the strange contrast between our outrage about rape — and our remarkable unwillingness, as a society, to actually do anything about it? For one, we are far more widely complicit in crimes against women than we care to acknowledge. The hideous gang-rape in Delhi is part of the continuum of violence millions of Indian women face every single day; a continuum that stretches from sexual harassment in public spaces and the workplace to physical abuse that plays itself out in the privacy of our homes far more often than on the street. Nor is it true, secondly, that Delhi is India’s “rape capital.” There are plenty of other places in India with a higher incidence of reported rape, in population adjusted terms — and Delhi’s record on convicting perpetrators is far higher than the national average. Third, this is not a problem of policing alone. As Professor Ratna Kapur argues in an op-ed article in this newspaper today, there is something profoundly wrong in the values young men are taught in our society — values which bind the parental preference for a male child to the gang of feral youth who carried out Sunday’s outrage or the hundreds of thousands of husbands who were battering their wives that same night. Finally, India’s society rails against rape, in the main, not out of concern for victims but because of the despicable notion that a woman’s body is the repository of family honour. It is this honour our society seeks to protect, not individual women. It is time for us as a people to feel the searing shame our society has until now only imposed on its female victims.

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Pension Day has been observed through out the country by various pensioners organisations on 17th December, 2012.

Com.K.G. Jayaraj,General Secretary inaugurated a well attended Convention, jointly organised by the district units of AIBDPA

and CGPA , Alappuzha in Kerala. Com.Jayaraj narrated a brief history of pension and other pensionary benefits in the country

and the struggles conducted by the unions in the past to achieve the genuine demands of the pensioners.He cautioned about

the big challenges being faced by the workers and pensioners,particularly in the form of PFRDA bill aimed to scuttle the very

concept of statutory pension.The need of the hour is to forge complete unity of pensioners and workers and fight against the

onslaught of the ruling class.In this context he emphasised the importance of two days national strike by all the central trade unions and federations on 20th and 21st February,2013 and appealed to the pension community to support the strike in every respect.Com.Kunju Pillai District President,CGPA,presided and Coms.K.P.Kesavan Nair,T.X.Zacharia,K.G.Pillai,N.Guruprasad and Khalid spoke.

In Palakkad in Kerala also a mammoth convension of pensioners was held jointly by various pensioners organisations which was inaugurated by Com.P.V.Chandrasekharan, All India Patron,AIBDPA with an educative and elaborate speech.

It was on 17th December 1982,the Supreme Court pronounced the historic and landmark judgement in D.S.Nakera Vs Government of India case

declaring that Pension is not a charity but the right and pensioners cannot be discriminated on the basis of their date retirement.

This day is being observed as the Pensioners day and when we observe the Pensioners Day this time,challenges are looming large in the form

of attacks from none other than the central government to scuttle the very concept of statutory pension.The government haqs already decided to

allow FDI in pension sector also and they are going ahead with the PFRDA bill,determined to get it passed by the Parliament in the current winter

session of parliament.

Therefore the pensioners as well as the workers have to resist the onslaught of the ruling class with all their might.

Bank employees all over the country are all set to launch a strike on 20th December in protest against the move of the central government to enact the Banking Regulation(Amendment) Bill which was moved in the Parliament and is supported by the corporates within the nation and outside.

The bill is aimed to privatise the banks which would set a long term adverse effect on the national economy and to scuttle the banking system and to surrender crores of rupees to foreign corporates.

The nationwide strike is called upon by the United Forum of Bank Unions comprising all the the unions of the employees and the officers as well.

AIBDPA expresses its complete solidarity to the bank employees and appeal all its units to support the strike.

Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal has said that mobile number portability is expected to be made nationwide by February,2013.So the mobile users can retain their numbers even if they move from one state to another.

Delhi High Court which is considering appeal of the central government on modified parity has on 29th November has postponed the case again to 29th April,2013.