-The Indian Express According to the victim's family, those accused of setting her on fire are relatives and acquaintances of the accused, who is in prison for allegedly raping the minor. A 15-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly set on fire in Bulandshahr on Tuesday morning and died at Delhi’s RML Hospital later in the day, the police said. According to police, the girl was earlier allegedly raped by a local resident and the...
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Delhi Riot complaint names BJP MLA, court seeks report from police
-The Indian Express As per the complaint, on February 23, Mumtaz's shop was set on fire by rioters named in the complaint. On that day, after filing an unnamed complaint with the police, Mumtaz alleged he spotted Bisht around 10 pm and heard him give a speech to a mob asking them to "find and kill Muslims" while the mob shouted, waving pistols and swords in the air. A Delhi court has...
More »Farmers Across 20 States Block Roads to Protest Against Farm Laws
-The Indian Express Farmers participated in the protests at more than 5,000 locations across India, and similar demonstrations in larger numbers are expected to be held in New Delhi later this month. New Delhi: At least one million farmers across 20 states took to the streets on Thursday against the three recently passed agriculture laws and the proposed Electricity Amendment Bill, All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC) leader Avik Saha told...
More »Sustained efforts required to reduce multidimensional poverty amidst the pandemic
Multidimensional poverty is about non-monetary poverty and is strongly associated with the challenges of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Although previously defined only in monetary terms, poverty is now understood to include the lived reality of people’s experiences and the multiple deprivations they face. India’s multidimensional headcount ratio (H) i.e. the proportion or incidence of people (within a given population) who experience multiple deprivations has reduced from 55.1 percent to...
More »Punjab farmers have fed country since the Green Revolution, now it must stand by us -Raakhi Jagga
-The Indian Express Participating in indefinite dharnas at Petrol pumps, near toll plazas, even on rail tracks, elderly farmers tell The Indian Express that age is just a number. A 94-year-old farmer leader cycles 5 km to reach the dharna spot, an 83-year-old says, ‘looking at our united struggle…I think, I will live more’. Their wrinkled faces bear scars of decades spent toiling on fields, but the zeal is intact. Participating in...
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