-The Hindu But remote work, education, and healthcare still not equally available to all, says survey The story so far: Internet connectivity has shot up over the last year, with most new users attributing their new connections to the COVID-19 pandemic and shutdowns. However, a new nationwide survey found that remote work, education, and healthcare are still not equally available to all, even among those with digital access. How was the study designed? LIRNEasia,...
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In seven years, 10,552 Indians have been arrested under UAPA – but only 253 convicted -Gautam Doshi
-Scroll.in/ FactChecker.in The number of pending cases under the counter-terror law have been rising in the last seven years. Mohammed Ilyas, 38, and Mohammed Irfan, 33, were arrested in August 2012 by Maharashtra’s Anti-Terrorist Squad under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (among other charges) and accused of being linked to terror outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba. After being in jail for nine years, they were cleared of all charges by court, owing to lack of...
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-The Hindu Labourers stage protest at Kalaburagi ZP office KALABURAGI: After being denied their rightful work under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), hundreds of rural labourers from different villages across Kalaburagi district staged a demonstration outside the zilla panchayat office in Kalaburagi on November 15. Alleging denial of work by Panchayat Development Officers (PDOs) in several gram panchayats even after submitting applications and completing all the procedures as per...
More »Burnt body of Bihar missing journalist writing on ‘fake’ clinics found on highway: Report -Sohini Goswami
-Hindustan Times Two days before he disappeared, the Right to Information (RTI) activist had written a post on Facebook in which he mentioned such clinics. A 23-year-old journalist working on a scam involving medical clinics in Bihar’s Madhubani district was found dead days after he went missing. His burnt body was reportedly found tossed by the roadside near a village in the district. An NDTV ARTicle said Buddhinath Jha or Avinash Jha was...
More »Five years after demonetisation, SC still to set up a bench to hear the petitions challenging it -Umang Poddar
-Scroll.in In December 2016, the court had said the cases would be referred to a five-judge bench It took less than 24 hours for the first set of petitions to be filed against the Modi government’s demonetisation decision. Eight weeks later, at least 41 petitions had been filed in courts across the country. But five years later, nothing has happened in the petitions. Even the Supreme Court bench that was supposed to hear...
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