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Newclick Production, March 25, 2013

Milena Santana-Ramirez, the Venezuelan Ambassador to India, remembers the revolutionary Hugo Chavez in a recently held memorial meeting.

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Newsclick Production, March 25. 2013

Senior Journalist Achin Vanaik in a memorial meeting for Hugo Chavez Speaks of Latin America's success in building a path that leads to regional unity.

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Akhlas Ahmad and Mohd Basit, AJK MCRC, Jamia Milia Islamia University

Newsclick hosts selected news features of students from AJK MCRC, Jamia Milia Islamia University. Akhlas Ahmad and Mohd Basit argue why the once radical Urdu journalism is suffering from delayed reflexes. How lack of resources and dearth of employment opportunities is pushing the language into an abyss. The views expressed here are the author's personal views, and do not necessarily represent the views of Newsclick

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Newsclick Production, March 23, 2013

A.B. Bardhan, former General Secretary, CPI, in a public meeting organised by the Centre for Policy Analysis, fears of the entire Kashmir becoming a police state if the J&K government passes the proposed Police Bill

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Newsclick Production, March 23,2013

Prakash Karat, General Secretary, CPI (M), in a public meeting organised by the Centre for Policy Analysis, condemns the Police Bill proposed by the J&K government as draconian and anti-democratic as it will provide the same impunity to the J&K police that the Indian Army enjoys under the Armed Forces Special Powers Act.

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Newsclick Production, March 22, 2013

Bouthaina Shaaban, Political and Media Advisor to Syrian President Bashar Al Assad, in a talk hosted by the Centre for Policy Analysis, answers the questions of journalists and people eager to have a deep understanding of the factors responsible for the ongoing conflict in Syria.

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Newsclick Production, March 19, 2013

Siddharth Varadarajan, Editor, The Hindu, in a meeting held to remember the revolutionary Hugo Chavez, speaks of the leader's efforts and determination to bring about inclusive development in Venezuela. He also points out the examples Chavez set for the third world countries to follow in the responsible, democratic and progressive utilization of national resources

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Newsclick Production, March 19, 2013

Journalist Prashant Jha and activist-journalist Shyam Shrestha comment on the latest "agreement" between the top political players in Nepal paving the way for a Chief Justice led interim government before elections are held for a fresh Constituent Assembly.

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Ronnie Jos, Reema Behl and Rohit Pandita, AJK MCRC, Jamia Milia Islamia University, March 18, 2013

Newsclick hosts selected news features of students from AJK MCRC, Jamia Milia Islamia University.

Team sports get step motherly treatment as opposed to individual sports by Sports Authority of India. Because they fetch more medals report Ronnie Jos, Reema Behl and Rohit Pandita

The views expressed here are the author's personal views, and do not necessarily represent the views of Newsclick

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Newsclick Production, March 16, 2013

Bouthaina Shaaban, Political and Media Advisor to Syrian President Bashar Al Assad, addressed a talk hosted by the Centre for Policy Analysis on the Syrian crisis. Newsclick presents the video of the talk. Shaaban says there are multifaceted factors responsible for the crisis. She says the expulsion of Syria from the Arab League has caused huge damage. The arming of Syrian rebels has still not abated. Every passing day is a tragedy with 2 million people already displaced, thousands killed and many more orphaned. Syria is being infused with sectarian beliefs and language, which is destroying the secular foundations of the system. Shaaban sees in Syrian crisis a whole design for the entire region. She hopes countries like India would be more pro-active at the upcoming BRICS meeting in South Africa in pressing for a non-military intervention in Syria.

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Newsclick Production, March 14, 2013

The news from Mississippi of an HIV-positive baby being 'cured' has once again started discussions around the plausibility of a breakthrough. Dr. Satyajit Rath discusses with Newsclick the reasons which are possibly behind what is termed as 'functionally cured.' He suggests that treating infection early on when the baby is exposed to it is almost like prevention. But since there is no accurate way of knowing when an adult is exposed to HIV, can the approach used in the baby's case be of any significance to the adult community infected with HIV?

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Sneha Gusain, Sana Amir and Salma Rehman (Students of AJK MCRC, Jamia Milia Islamia University)

Newsclick hosts selected news features of students from AJK MCRC , Jamia Milia Islamia University.

India ranks 17th as an international child marriage hotspot. Sneha Gusain, Sana Amir and Salma Rehman report how social stigma amongst rural and urban poor subjects young girls to child marriage.

Disclaimer: The views expressed here are the author's personal views, and do not necessarily represent the views of Newsclick

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Newsclick Production, March 9, 2013

Newsclick remembers the revolutionary Hugo Chavez.

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Newsclick Production, March 9, 2013

Newsclick discusses with Shankar Raghuraman, Senior Journalist, the election results in three North-Eastern states of Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya. He says the results are a bad news for the Congress Party. Its influence is gradually declining in this region which was its traditional stronghold. Tripura has elected the Left Front to power for the fifth consecutive term, largely because of the participatory politics it practised. The Naga People's Front has won the majority in Nagaland and in Meghalaya, the Congress Party got the majority.

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Newsclick Production, March 7, 2013

Newsclick discusses with economist Surajit Mazumdar the Union Budget 2013-14 and other related aspects.

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Newsclick Production, March 5, 2013

In many parts of the country today, manual scavenging is as routine a thing as bathing is to us. Rashtriya Garima Abhiyan is one of the few nationwide campaigns aiming to eradicate this practice and abolish untouchability and other caste-based discrimination that stem from it.

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Newsclick Production, March 5, 2013

As the government is in the process of considering making rape a gender-neutral crime, several women's groups have objected to it stating that gender-neutral rape statutes may undermine reforms in rape law, and overlook gender-based victimization. Newsclick talks to Jagmati Sangwan, AIDWA Vice-President, on the repercussions of such amendment in the rape law.

Sana Amir, Salma Rehman and Zainab Sayeed (Students of AJK MCRC, Jamia Milia Islamia University), February 27, 2013

Newsclick hosts selected news features of students from AJK MCRC, Jamia Milia Islamia University. Over 2000 people have died during clinical drug trials in the last four years in India but only 22 have been compensated. A report by Sana Amir, Salma Rehman and Zainab Sayeed.

Disclaimer: The views expressed here are the author's personal views, and do not necessarily represent the views of Newsclick

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Newsclick Production, February 27, 2013

In this Newsclick interview, Kalyani Menon, Co-ordinator of the Campaign for Affordable Trastuzumab (Herceptin) speaks to Ravish Mehra, husband of a breast cancer survivor who recounts his experiences in accessing Herceptin, and the travails faced therein.

Newsclick Production, February 27, 2013

Kalyani Menon Sen, activist and feminist researcher discusses with Newsclick the importance of access to drugs, specially in certain life-threatening diseases. Today, a lot of women are getting affected with breast cancer. According to the national cancer registry, over 1,00,000 women in India develop breast cancer every year. Herceptin is a drug which is useful in the most aggressive form of the cancer, which typically afflicts younger patients. But its cost is prohibitive for almost any Indian patient to afford. Given the drug’s important public health benefit, Kalyani Menon Sen feels that Indian government should issue compulsory license and make the drug accessible to a large number of women.