-NDTV.com Farmers especially from Punjab and Haryana have been camping around Delhi for a year in protest against three new farm laws Chandigarh: The Punjab government has announced financial help for 83 people arrested in Delhi after Violence broke out during a farmers' tractor rally on Republic Day this January. The move is likely to spark a controversy and set up Punjab's Congress government and the centre for a new battle. Farmers especially...
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Deep Rot Within Facebook/Meta: What can be Done? -Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
-Newsclick.in Can legal and regulatory action be taken against Facebook for actively abetting the spread of communal hatred? While a precedent exists in the US, carrying out the same in India will prove a challenge. So, what’s new about whistleblower Frances Haugen’s revelations about how the top brass of the now-renamed Facebook turned a blind eye to the proliferation of incendiary, hateful and false information on its social media platform, how the...
More »UNHCR: Conflict, Violence, climate change drove displacement higher in first half of 2021
-UNHCR India The trend in rising forced displacement continued into 2021 – with global numbers now exceeding 84 million – as more people fled Violence, insecurity and the effects of climate change, according to the Mid-Year Trends report released today by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. The report, for January-June 2021, showed an increase from 82.4 million at the end of 2020. This resulted largely from internal displacement, with more people fleeing...
More »Jai Bhim: Movie Review -T Navin
-CounterCurrents.org In a society divided along caste and class lines, Violence against the marginalised groups either does not attract the attention of society at large or the oppression per se tends to be seen as normal. The pattern of silence is in favour of the dominant groups. There is no abnormality seen in Violence perpetrated by the dominant groups either directly or through the use of state machinery. Instances of responding...
More »Tripura shows how to stand up against bigotry
-The Telegraph In most cases, the mosques were targeted in the dead of night by people who moved around in small groups, a joint fact-finding team said A joint fact-finding team of four Muslim organisations on Saturday said Hindus and Muslims in Tripura provided an example of how to stand up to bigotry by neither getting swayed by the narrative of the VHP and the Bajrang Dal nor being provoked into retaliation...
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