-The Telegraph Haugen, a former Facebook data scientist, recently told the US Congress that the social media giant 'promotes global division and ethnic violence', including in India The disclosures of Frances Haugen, who hit the headlines across the world earlier this week as “the Facebook whistleblower”, include multiple references to the promotion of divisions and ethnic violence in India. Her main claims on Facebook’s work in India are that pages associated with the...
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Assam’s Evictions Are Turning Skilled Bengali muslim Farmers Into Labourers -Makepeace Sitlhou
-Article-14.com In driving out ‘illegal encroachers’ from farms in an area smaller than Assam’s capital for an agriculture project that does not interest native Assamese, the Bharatiya Janata Party government is dispossessing productive Bengali muslim farmers, many of whom say they bought land from locals and have been paying land taxes, some for up to 70 years. Darrang, Assam: On the day Moinul Haque, 28, was shot in the abdomen and killed...
More »Why evictions in Assam under Himanta Sarma have left Bengali muslims more fearful than ever before -Arunabh Saikia
-Scroll.in The community feels the recent evictions are about communal politics, not land. Assamese muslims agree. Manikajan Bibi is scared of losing her home. It is one windowless room built with tin sheets held together by wooden beams. In nervous anticipation, she has bundled this season’s harvest of rice into two sacks, her sarees in a fraying mud brown rexine bag. A rusty trunk holds everything else – mostly a bunch of...
More »31 muslims (4.07%) out of 761 successful UPSC candidates
-muslimMirror.com New Delhi: 31 muslim students have cleared Civil Services (Main) Examination, 2020. Sadaf Choudhary who ranked 23, has secured the highest rank among muslim candidates. They constitute 4.07 per cent out of the total 761 successful candidates. The number of successful muslim candidates has reduced this year in comparison to last year as a total of 42 had cleared the civil services exam in the 2019 batch. Shubham Kumar, an IIT Bombay...
More »Misleading headlines, cropped visuals: How local reportage on Assam eviction had a ‘slant’ -Samrat X
-Newslaundry.com Print and TV media in Assam gave no space to those being evicted. On September 23, a video clip from Assam went viral. It shows a man clad in lungi and vest carrying a stick chasing behind a fleeing policeman who runs to join a larger group of his colleagues. Immediately the man with the stick is shot at by the police and falls to the ground, after which he is...
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