-The Telegraph Satyanand Singh, a grocery store owner at Aneesabad, is selling arhar dal at Rs 200 per kg, while Ashiana Nagar-based shopkeeper Deepak Kumar sells the same at Rs 190 per kg. Mohammad Rafi of Boring Road has been selling arhar dal at Rs 190 per kg and the rate for the same at Vishal Mega Mart on Fraser Road is Rs 194 per kg. As soaring prices of arhar dal (pigeon...
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Muslim women for personal law reform to avert uniform code -Eram Agha
-The Times of India ALIGARH: Mumbai-based Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan is ready to launch a "Public Hearing" in Delhi for the ban on triple talaq, recording the testimonies of Muslim women on how they suffered because of the regressive personal laws. What drives the group to launch the programme is a case from Uttar Pradesh, where 24-year-old Shahida, married in 2008 was arbitrarily divorced. After a month of her marriage her in-laws...
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-The Hindu Meerut: According to officials in the Lucknow police headquarters, over 100 people have been arrested and 25 cases filed in the last one week. Uttar Pradesh is on the boil again. In just about three weeks, there were as many as a dozen incidents of communal violence. Nine districts of the State, including urban areas like Kanpur, Mianpuri, Kannauj, Pratapgarhm, remained tense because of communal clashes during Durga idol immersion and...
More »Uttar Pradesh, India’s Communal Tinderbox -Abheet Singh Sethi
-IndiaSpend.org/TheWire.in Uttar Pradesh accounted for a fifth of all religious conflicts–or “communal incidents”, as they are officially called–in India between 2010 and 2014, according to data tabled in the Lok Sabha. As many as 703 religious conflicts were reported in Uttar Pradesh (UP) during the past five years, leading to 176 deaths and 2007 injuries, the highest in India. The first six months of 2015 saw 68 such incidents in UP, India’s...
More »Most Indians non-vegetarian, yet meat consumption lower than China, US
Recently meat sale and consumption was banned in five BJP-ruled states of Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Haryana and Gujarat on the pretext of not hurting the religious sentiments of Jain community during Paryushan festival. Earlier this year, beef consumption and sale was banned in Maharashtra with the passage of Maharashtra Animal Preservation (Amendment) Bill, 1995. A few days back, a Muslim man named Mohammad Akhlaq was lynched by a Hindu mob...
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