Sruthisagar Yamunan In controversy: Road-laying works under way on Muthumariamman Koil Street in Puducherry on Thursday. PUDUCHERRY: The road-laying works on Muthumariamman Koil Street, adjacent to the Vedapurishwarar Temple on Mahatma Gandhi Road, have kicked up a series of controversies. Civil society organisations have demanded the immediate stoppage of work, alleging that it is in violation of the [...]...More

The School and College Students of Puducherry around four thousand boycotted the classes and rallied towards the Lt. Governor’s office and submitted a Memorandum to the Lt. Governor of Puducherry on 14/07/2010 demanding to implement 11 vital demands of students issue: We are submitting this representation for your Excellency’s kind attention and for suitable action to [...]...More

A fact-finding team of various human rights organisations visited Uthapuram village in Madurai district and Dombucheri village in Theni district on Sunday for assessing the situation in the wake of allegations of caste atrocities and police excesses against Dalits. The team, comprising writer A. Marx, M. Sivagurunathan, K. Palanisamy and Rajni of the People’s Union for [...]...More

Human Rights Activists demanded the Puducherry Government to release the life prisoners who have completed 7 years imprisonment following the Tamilnadu Government. On 22.06.2010 at 11 am at Puducherry Press Club, Peoples Union for Human Rights (PUHR) Tamilnadu Chapter President Prof A. Marx, Federation for People’s Rights (FPR) Secretary Mr. G. Sugumaran, People’s Union for Civil [...]...More

Eight sentenced to death is group murder is mass homicide.  This is against Mahatma Gandhi and Tamil life-giving culture of Kannagi’s demand.    The group murder is gory carnage.  The facts are terrible but compassion is just and fundamental under Article 51A of the Constitution.  The facts justifying the clemency of the Governor and the President [...]...More

Alleging widespreaded corruption in the appointment of contract teachers here, the Federation for People’s Rights today demanded a CBI probe into it. In a statement here today, Federation Secretary G Sugumaran alleged the marks obtained by several candidates were altered to accommodate those ”close” to authorities. Mr Sugumaran cited an example of Pazhaniyammal whose marks were altered [...]...More

Puducherry, May 11 : Hailing the CBI for arresting the culprit in the murder of Jayaraman, a data entry operator of the Pondicherry University, the Federation for People’s Rights here today urged the CBI officials to arrest all those involved in the crime. In a release here, Federation Secretary G Sugumaran pointed out that Jayaraman was [...]...More

The Puducherry-based Federation for peoples Rights today thanked the government for issuing orders providing one per cent reservation for scheduled tribes here in employment and education, classifying them as “backward tribes”. In a statement here, Federation secretary G Sugumaran said that this was a victory for the ST people who were struggling for more than 25 [...]...More

The Puducherry-based Federation for People’s Rights today urged the Centre to terminate the ”illegal” concession agreement of the Puducherry Port project and reclaim the 153 acres of government land handed over to the private port firm. In a memorandum submitted to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram here, Federation Secretary G Sugumaran urged him not to give [...]...More

Federation for People’s Rights (FPR), Puducherry, Secretary G. Sugumaran met the Home Minister of India Mr. P. Chidambaram in the Chief Secretariat in Puducherry and submitted a memorandum today (10.04.2010): On behalf of “Federation for People’s Rights (FPR), Puducherry” an organization working for Human and Social rights since three decades, we are submitting this memorandum [...]...More