-The Hindu A troubled Meghalaya will see unrest growing until 2023, when the next elections are due, says the editor of ‘The Shillong Times’, Patricia Mukhim On August 13, an ailing former leader of an armed group was shot dead in the middle of the night at his home in Shillong by a police team. The incident led to unrest in Mawlai where the encounter occurred and resonated in the adjoining neighbourhoods...
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"Shocked" Court Denies Bail To Jamia Shooter In Hate Speech Case -Mohammad Ghazali
-NDTV.com The accused is the same person who fired on anti-citizenship law protesters near Delhi's Jamia Millia University in January last year; he was then only 17 years old Chandigarh: In a significant ruling, a Haryana court on Friday rejected the bail plea of a 19-year-old man arrested this week for allegedly making hate speeches - he allegedly made comments urging the abduction and killing of girls from a particular religious community...
More »Another Mass Exodus of Migrant Workers Likely if Delhi's Lockdown Persists -Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar
-TheWire.in With a large number of units in the unorganised sector closing down and few providing residential facilities to workers, many have already started leaving. New Delhi: As the Delhi government announced a six-day lockdown from Monday to combat the spread of COVID-19, a large number of migrant workers began leaving for their home towns and villages – bringing back memories of a similar crisis in March 2020. Workers fear that the...
More »Climate change needs to be addressed or else be ready to pay the price
A recent report by Christian Aid -- an international NGO based out of London -- says that the world was not just hit by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, it actually faced massive loss of lives and livelihoods owing to the intensification of the ongoing climate crisis. Climate-related disasters varied from fires in Australia and the United States, floods in China, India and Japan to storms in Europe and the...
More »Delhi Riots: Does Delhi Police Want To Steer Probe Towards A ‘Particular Direction’? -Shastri Ramachandaran
-Outlook India If Delhi Police has done its investigation without fear or favour, why does it want its own prosecutors? Successive governments in India, unlike in China, have been able to get away with a lot. From the Delhi riots of 1984 and the Mass Killings of 2002 in Gujarat to periodic communal violence and decades of state violence and repression in Jammu & Kashmir, India has escaped being put in the...
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