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Now, it’s 100 crore

Times of India’s second legal notice demands Rs 100 crore. To fight the media giant legally, TWL Editor, P C Vinoj Kumar, seeks the support of all those who believe in freedom of expression

TN wakes up

Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa calls for special assembly session and asserts that the State would not give up its rights over Mullaiperiyar dam because of the “imaginary threat to its safety” 

‘M factor’ shocks TOI

An article in TWL that went viral soon after it was uploaded on Monday has led to Times of India issuing a legal notice demanding Rs one crore compensation, says Editor, P C Vinoj Kumar

Next, Sinhalese

Sinhalese are now learning that the guns that mowed Tamils will next be turned on them, says Brian Senewiratne, an Australia based Sinhalese doctor in the fourth and last of a series for TWL

The M factor

Pointing fingers at Malayalee journalists for being unfair in their reportage on Mullaiperiyar dam issue, Radhika Giri feels that they consider themselves Malayalees first and journalists next

Nuclear war

A medical doctor who is part of the expert committee of the anti - Koodankulam nuclear power project movement, has alleged that a police inspector in Kalpakkam warned him of an ‘encounter’ 

 
Get it right

By networking journalists and RTI activists, K Venkatesh trains media persons on the effective use of RTI. Naresh Nunna speaks to the Knight International Journalism Fellow to know his work

Finishing Tamils

Sri Lankan rulers want to destroy the concept of Tamil homeland and make Tamils permanent refugees, says the Sinhalese doctor in Australia, Brian Senewiratne, in this third part of a series

Moving glaciers

By bringing glaciers to his village, Norphel Chewang helped Ladakh farmers till the land in summer - a privilege nature denied them. While Mahesh Bhatt captures the fabulous images in his camera, Anita Pratap catches up with the engineer

Land war

Even as the movie ‘Dam 999’ seems to have whipped up fresh panic in Kerala over the Mullaiperiyar dam, Sam Rajappa says the real motive of the Kerala govt is to wrest 8,000 odd acres from TN  

Green fraud

Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava exposes a new age fraud by industries in Chhattisgarh which run ‘biomass’ power plants, but continue to use coal while claiming crores of rupees worth carbon credit  

Nicotine stains

Toothpastes in India have high levels of nicotine, a known carcinogen, a study has found. A popular brand – named in the article – had nicotine content normally contained in nine cigarettes!  

 
Virulent pogroms

There had been no civil war in Sri Lanka but only virulent pogroms against the Tamil people, says Brian Senewiratne, the Sinhalese doctor in Australia, in this second part of a series for TWL

Nuking myths

As the standoff on the Koodankulam nuclear plant continues, Nityanand Jayaraman and G Sundar Rajan explode some myths relating to the project, asserting that the reactor is indeed not safe

Hearty gains

Indian professionals are returning home to start ventures that are run with a heart. James Jose profiles a few of them, figuring out what makes them tick as successful social entrepreneurs

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