-PTI/ Hindustan Times The Delhi HC order sought the AAP government and EDMC’s responses on a plea seeking direction to authorities to re-open the relief camp at Idgah in Mustafabad and provide proper food supplies, adequate water, sanitation and security to the victims. The Delhi High Court on Friday directed the AAP government to ensure victims of the recent Northeast Delhi riots, who may be homeless at the moment, are provided with...
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Deaths & injuries in communal incidents during 2018 is not revealed by the latest available annual report of the Home Ministry
As body count due to Delhi riots (some call it pogrom) rise above 45, it is essential to look at the official data related to communal incidents in the country. It is from the annual report of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA), one gets information about the number of communal incidents in different years, apart from the number of persons injured and killed in those incidents. There is one...
More »Cop out in Delhi: Police response invariably reflects the bias of the ruling party -Prakash Singh
-The Indian Express The police are, no doubt, to blame for not being able to function in an objective and impartial manner. There is definitely a failure of leadership also. But can political parties across the spectrum escape the blame for continuing to use the police as an instrument to further their political agenda? The ongoing violence in Northeast Delhi, where at least 10 persons, including a head constable, were killed in...
More »Unhelpful combativeness: On concerns about CAA
-The Hindu PM Modi must address the concerns about the CAA instead of misinterpreting them Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statement that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, or CAA, 2019, intended only to grant citizenship to a certain class of people, and not to deny citizenship to anyone is factually accurate. But his extrapolation that hence the Act’s critics are misinformed is unfounded and misleading. The concern expressed by many is not that...
More »Why is the Northeast on the boil? -Sudipta Datta
-The Hindu In Assam, Tripura and Meghalaya, what is the unease over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019? The story so far: Curfew was eased on Saturday for some hours in towns and cities of the Brahmaputra Valley including Guwahati in lower Assam and Dibrugarh in upper Assam after days of violent protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 since the Bill was passed by the Rajya Sabha on December 11 and the...
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