-IndiaToday.in A delhi court said the police 'made no effort' in the northeast delhi riots investigation. A delhi court pulled up the delhi Police over lack of proper investigation into the 2020 northeast delhi riots, while discharging three men accused of rioting, arson and various offences. One of the accused includes Shah Alam, brother of former Aam Aadmi Party councillor Tahir Hussain. The case relates to the looting and damage caused to Anand...
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"Roll Back LPG Price Hike": NDA Ally Warns Of Waning Chances In State Polls -Himanshu Shekhar Mishra
-NDTV.com A number of state assembly polls, including in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab, are scheduled over the next few months. New delhi: The BJP's NDA ally Janata Dal-United (JDU) today demanded that the Centre roll back the hike announced today in LPG cylinder prices by petroleum companies. The party, which leads the coalition in Bihar, cited the financial pressure on households amid the Covid pandemic and said political rivals could use the...
More »Khari Baoli dry fruit market has centuries-old ties with Kabul -Manoj Sharma
-Hindustan Times Afghanistan has been driving the dry fruit business in Khari Baoli, which is India’s biggest dry fruit market and home to some of the oldest dry fruit importers in the country. Surjeet Singh, a wholesale dry fruits trader, is watching the ongoing crisis in Afghanistan with great concern. “My business is completely dependent on Afghanistan; almost everything here is imported from there, ” says Singh, pointing to a range of dry...
More »'Totalitarian Govts Rely on Falsehoods to Establish Dominance': Justice D.Y. Chandrachud
-PTI/ TheWire.in "Democracy and truth go hand in hand. Democracy needs truth to survive," the Supreme Court judge said at a lecture. New delhi: Totalitarian governments constantly rely on falsehoods in order to establish dominance and the citizen’s right to speak truth to power is integral to the functioning of a democracy, Supreme Court judge Justice D.Y. Chandrachud said on Saturday, August 28. LiveLaw, which covered the online lecture, reported on it with...
More »Dalit Times reporter covering slum demolition detained in delhi -Avdhesh Kumar
-Newslaundry.com Srishti Jatav says the police held her for three hours, snatched away her phone and deleted the videos she had made. “I had learned that delhi Development Authority and delhi police officials were at Dhobi Ghat, Jamia Nagar, to remove some slum dwellings. When I reached there to cover it, the police took me and my cameraman Raju into custody,” she told Newslaundry. “The police first snatched away our camera and...
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