-The Times of India MEERUT: Forgotten by most and out in the cold, quite literally, 25 people have died of chill this winter in the Muzaffarnagar camps that continue to house a little over 3,500 riot Refugees. TOI visited Muzaffarnagar - Shamli has another 700 Refugees - over two days, tabulating a list of the dead and the dates on which they had died, and found that even after they breathed their...
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Treat pre-1971 Bangladeshi settlers as Indians: Meghalaya HC
-The Times of India SHILLONG: In a landmark judgement, the Meghalaya high court has said Bangladeshi nationals who had settled in the state before March 24, 1971, should be treated as Indians and enrolled in the voters' list. The order came on a petition filed by more than 40 Bangladeshi Refugees who were denied enrolment in the electoral roll on the grounds that their citizenship was "doubtful". The Refugees from Amjong...
More »Food security Act also covers foreign nationals, Refugees, says Law Ministry -Amitav Ranjan
-The Indian Express MEA has been asked to provide details of the allowance to Refugees to ascertain if they could be brought under food security The Union Law Ministry's opinion is that the food security legislation covers not just Indians but also foreign nationals and Refugees. The ministry's legal affairs department gave this opinion in the backdrop of a 2012 petition by the Mool Pravah Akhil Bharat Nepal Ekta Samaj, saying that "the...
More »The battle for water-Brahma Chellaney
-The Hindu With the era of cheap, bountiful water having been replaced by increasing supply-and-quality constraints, many international investors are beginning to view water as the new oil There is a popular, tongue-in-cheek saying in America - attributed to the writer Mark Twain, who lived through the early phase of the California Water Wars - that "whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting over." It highlights the consequences, even if...
More »Winter in exile-Harsh Mander
-The Hindu With the closing of relief camps in Muzaffarnagar, even the meagre food support has disappeared. As the winter cold descends this year on Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts in Western U.P., some 20,000 people will camp in makeshift unofficial camps amidst squalor and official neglect, or survive in small rented tenements or with relatives - exiles from the villages of their birth. Three months after one of the grimmest communal outbreaks...
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