-The Telegraph A group of retired civil servants has also issued a statement urging the apex court to review its Zakia Jafri verdict A group of retired civil servants has issued a statement urging the Supreme Court to review its Zakia Jafri verdict and withdraw a paragraph that Gujarat police have cited to arrest social activist Teesta Setalvad and former IPS officer R.B. Sreekumar. The apex court had dismissed Zakia’s plea challenging a...
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Deaths by Suicide Among Farmers in Punjab Signal the Dire Need For Reform -Darshan Pal
-TheWire.in A recent report on farmer suicides in Punjab reveals the circumstances which lead farmers and farm labourers to take their own lives, debunks popular myths regarding the same, and points to policy measures needed to tackle the problem. Suicides are a sign of a deep crisis in a society. And in Punjab’s so-called ‘agriculturally developed society’, suicides of farmers and farm labourers have been taking place unabated for the last two...
More »AAP’s claims of creating 10 lakh jobs misleading -Nikhil M Babu
-The Hindu Only 12,588 people got jobs through the Delhi Government’s Rozgar Bazaar portal National convenor of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and other party leaders have been claiming for the past several months that their government has provided 10 lakh jobs in the private sector to Delhiites through its Rozgar Bazaar portal. But only 12,588 people had actually secured jobs through the portal till May...
More »After Teesta Setalvad arrest, civil society fears ‘chilling effect’ -Pheroze L Vincent
-The Telegraph In attendance at the Jantar Mantar rally were Jairam Ramesh and Ajay Maken of the Congress, which has been accused of lukewarm opposition to the verdict A civil society struggling to come to terms with the Supreme Court verdict in the Zakia Jafri case hit the streets on Monday against the arrest of human rights activist Teesta Setalvad and whistleblower police officer R.B. Sreekumar by Gujarat police. During a protest on...
More »Assam's Silchar still under water, CM says flood was 'man-made' -Sumir Karnakar
-Deccan Herald The death toll due to floods and landslides reached 121 with four deaths reported on Saturday. Of this, 21 deaths were in the Cachar district Guwahati: As most parts of south Assam city Silchar remained inundated even on the sixth day on Sunday, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma stated that the flood was "man-made." "The flood here this time is man-made. I have got information that the embankment which protects Silchar...
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