-NDTV.com CCTV footage shows Buddhinath Jha leaving home at 9.58 pm on Tuesday, wearing a yellow scarf around his neck; he walks past a police station and is not seen again Patna: The body of a 22-year-old journalist and RTI activist, who was kidnapped four days ago, was found on Friday evening - burned and tossed by the roadside - near a village in Bihar's Madhubani district. Buddhinath Jha, alias Avinash Jha, was...
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38 injured as skulk of foxes attack Bengal village
-PTI/ The Hindu At least 38 people were injured in an attack by a skulk of foxes in West Bengal’s Malda district on Thursday, police said. The incident happened in Hardam Nagar village in the Harishchandrapur police station area. A skulk of 15-20 foxes attacked several houses in the village at the break of the dawn, injuring at least 40 people, as most were caught by surprise, the police said. Twenty of them...
More »India's retail inflation rate rises marginally to 4.48% in October
-MoneyControl.com The CPI-based inflation in September 2021 was at 4.35 percent and in October 2020 it was 7.61 percent. India’s retail inflation rate, which is measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), rose to 4.48 percent in the month of October 2021, data released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) revealed on November 12. There was a marginal increase in retail inflation in October due to an uptick in food...
More »Deep Rot Within Facebook/Meta: What can be Done? -Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
-newsclick.in Can legal and regulatory action be taken against Facebook for actively abetting the spread of communal hatred? While a precedent exists in the US, carrying out the same in India will prove a challenge. So, what’s new about whistleblower Frances Haugen’s revelations about how the top brass of the now-renamed Facebook turned a blind eye to the proliferation of incendiary, hateful and false information on its social media platform, how the...
More »Rs.2 Lakh For Every Protester Arrested In Delhi Tractor Rally: Punjab -Mohammed Ghazali
-NDTV.com Farmers especially from Punjab and Haryana have been camping around Delhi for a year in protest against three new farm laws Chandigarh: The Punjab government has announced financial help for 83 people arrested in Delhi after violence broke out during a farmers' tractor rally on Republic Day this January. The move is likely to spark a controversy and set up Punjab's Congress government and the centre for a new battle. Farmers especially...
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