-Newslaundry.com Channels like Aaj Tak and ABP suggested the role of ‘Bangladeshi or Rohingya Muslims’ in the communal violence on April 16. “Modi, may you live long,” said Afsana, beating her chest and gritting her teeth. “You have now turned us into Bangladeshis.” Afsana, a vegetable vendor, is angry and disappointed. Decades ago, her parents migrated to Delhi from Kolkata, settling in Sunder Nagri in NorthEast Delhi, hoping to make a living. They...
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Rights In Exile: Does India Need To Rethink Its Policy On Displaced Persons? -Nupur Dogra
-Outlook India A closer look at the data on internally displaced communities, due to conflict and violence in India and their rehabilitation process, highlights that India has no uniform policy or act for their rehabilitation. At a time, when 'The Kashmir Files' has been sparking debates across the country on the issue of rehabilitation of displaced Kashmiri Pandits, Congress MP Vivek Tankha moved a bill in the Parliament for the social, political...
More »In Bihar, women face floods and increasing violence -Shreya Raman
-TheThirdPole.net As climate change increases the incidence of flooding, women in the northeast Indian state of Bihar are becoming more vulnerable to violence and trafficking After devastating floods struck the northeastern Indian state of Bihar in August 2017, the country’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, conducted an aerial survey of the affected areas. At the time, nearly 3,000 square kilometres of the state were under water – an area twice the size of...
More »Nagaland: Centre to form 5-member panel to weigh AFSPA withdrawal -Umanand Jaiswal
-The Telegraph A joint media release by CM Neiphiu Rio and two other leaders revealed the decision taken at a meeting that Amit Shah had convened in Delhi on December 23 Guwahati: The Centre will form a five-member committee to look into the possible withdrawal from Nagaland of the contentious Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958, which gives security forces extraordinary powers to search, arrest and shoot in designated trouble zones. A joint...
More »Judge Who Slammed Cops For "Callous" Delhi Riots Cases Probe Transferred
-PTI/ NDTV The observation came during the hearing of a NorthEast Delhi riots case after one policeman identified three alleged rioters but another said that they could not be identified during the investigation. New Delhi: A trial judge, who has been critical of the "callous and farcical" probe of Delhi police in some riots cases of 2020 and had once observed that failure to conduct a proper investigation will torment "sentinels of...
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