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August 2009

 

India's generation of children crippled by uranium waste, The Observer, 30 August 2009

Their heads are too large or too small, their limbs too short or too bent. For some, their brains never grew, speech never came and their lives are likely to be cut short: these are the children it appears that India would rather the world did not see, the victims of a scandal with potential implications far beyond the country's borders.

 

 

Tehelka news magazine pictures point to Indian police killing unarmed man, The Guardian, 6 Aug 2009

Manipur state police promises inquiry into what appears to be a 'fake encounter' of former militant

 

India pays couples to put off having children, The Observer, 2 Aug 2009

First cash payouts to families who delay having a child as India's population threatens to overtake China's

 

Church under pressure over revelations that Vedanta supplies nuclear programme, The Guardian, 2 Aug 2009

Vedanta confirmed that the company was only involved in the production of metals for the weapons, not the weapons themselves

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