-The Times of India NEW DELHI: A fact-finding team of intellectuals from JNU and Delhi University (DU), hit out at the Samajwadi Party government in UP, alleging it has outsourced Relief work for Muzaffarnagar riot victims to Muslim communal organizations like the Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind. After several visits to riot-ravaged Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts, the team comprising Dr Mohan Rao and oncologist Dr Vikas Bajpai, and Hindu College professor Ish Mishra released its...
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34 kids died in camps for riot victims, admits UP govt
-The Times of India LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh government on Thursday admitted that 34 children - all below 12 years - died at the Relief camps in Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts between September 7 and December 20, 2013. The death toll was confirmed by the high-powered committee constituted by the government to look into the deaths of infants as reported by the media. The panel submitted its report to the government on...
More »Odisha's vicious migration cycle: 'Do you want to part with your leg or hand?' -Debabrata Mohanty
-The Indian Express Odisha: A December night two desperate men, held captive by a labour contractor, were asked this, and had to make a choice. DEBABRATA MOHANTY reports on the latest victims of Orissa's vicious migration cycle It had been a fortnight that Dialu Niyal and Nilambar Dhangdamajhi had been held captive and subjected to physical and verbal abuse. Nothing though had prepared them for what happened on December 15 night deep...
More »Muslims want Cong to pass communal violence bill -Subodh Ghildiyal
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Muslim leaders urged Congress to pass the communal violence bill, putting a tough poser to the party that has failed to promulgate the legislation promised in its election manifesto. The strong pitch for the legislation, with Muzaffarnagar riots as the reason, came at an interaction organized by Congress with civil society working among minorities to elicit their views on issues to be included in the 2014...
More »Only five Relief camps now, says UP government
-The Times of India LUCKNOW: As a team of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) visited the riot-hit Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts on Friday, the UP government went into an overdrive to enumerate the Relief measures taken for the victims living in camps. UP chief secretary Jawed Usmani said after improvement in the law and order situation, only five Relief camps were functioning with 4,783 people living in them. Of these, one camp...
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