-PTI Muzaffarnagar: Two persons, including a woman, died due to cold even as six children living in night shelter camps fell ill in Shamli district, officials sources said. Irshad (55) died on Sunday after he fell ill due to cold at Gangeru village. Icy winds have been sweeping the region for some days. In another incident, a 30-year-old woman of the same village also died due to cold, according to family sources. Meanwhile, six...
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Farmer in UP Commits Suicide Over Mounting Debts
-Outlook Muzaffarnagar (UP): A debt ridden farmer in Atrohana village in the district has allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself at his house, police said. Sanjay Tyagi (48), was depressed over the mounting debts that he had taken from a bank and as the bank officials were pressuring him to pay back the loan, yesterday he took to the extreme step, they said. The body has been sent for postmortem. Meanwhile, block secretary of...
More »From displacement to disappearance-Farah Naqvi
-The Hindu Camp after camp has been forced to disappear in Muzaffarnagar by the official authorities. The people displaced by the communal riots are now in small shanty settlements, 10 tents here, another 10 tents half a kilometre down the road On December 26, 2013, a large group of visitors entered the Loi relief camp in Muzaffarnagar district, Uttar Pradesh. Loi camp - a festering sea of displaced and despairing humanity, with...
More »UP govt outsourced relief work to communal outfits: Report -Rakhi Chakrabarty
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: A fact-finding team of intellectuals from JNU and Delhi University (DU), hit out at the Samajwadi Party government in UP, alleging it has outsourced relief work for Muzaffarnagar riot victims to Muslim communal organizations like the Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind. After several visits to riot-ravaged Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts, the team comprising Dr Mohan Rao and oncologist Dr Vikas Bajpai, and Hindu College professor Ish Mishra released its...
More »34 kids died in camps for riot victims, admits UP govt
-The Times of India LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh government on Thursday admitted that 34 children - all below 12 years - died at the relief camps in Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts between September 7 and December 20, 2013. The death toll was confirmed by the high-powered committee constituted by the government to look into the deaths of infants as reported by the media. The panel submitted its report to the government on...
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