-The Telegraph The victims include a child and six women, aged between seven and 52, and a newly married couple Bolpur (Birbhum): The charred bodies of at least eight persons were found in two houses at Bogtui village on the outskirts of Birbhum’s Rampurhat on Tuesday amid allegations that they were burnt alive in retaliation to the killing of Bhadu Sheikh, a Trinamul leader, on Monday night. Calcutta High Court steps in, to...
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'Silent Majority' Supported the Three Farm Laws: SC-Appointed Committee Report
-TheWire.in (with PTI inputs) Anil Ghanwant, one of the three members of the committee, made the report public on Monday. Mumbai: Barely four months after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the repeal of the three farm laws which fanned protests across numerous sites in India, and only a few days after the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly results, the report of the Supreme Court-appointed committee on farm laws has been released in the...
More »Narendra Modi Speaks of Elusive Police Reforms, But Evades the Central Issue -Pratik Kanjilal
-TheWire.in Contrary to the spirit of reform, Modi’s government has sought to arrogate to itself the power to transfer IAS and IPS officers at will, without the concurrence of state governments. On Sunday, at the first convocation ceremony of the Rashtriya Raksha University in Gujarat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi recommended several progressive steps towards better policing, including the need for a psychological approach for improvements in jail conditions, for personnel to study...
More »From Amritsar’s 'Padwoman' to Mobile Repair Shop Owner: Meet AAP's 'Giant Killers' in Punjab -Vivek Gupta
-TheWire.in The widespread victories of lesser-known candidates in Punjab reveals voters’ entrenched anger with traditional parties in the state – an anger which AAP was able to capitalise on. Chandigarh: Even as the election verdict in Punjab sent shock waves across the country and beyond, it was less known faces that stole the show by defeating the bigwigs in the state. One of the major upsets of the election was the massive defeat...
More »35 charts decoding the 2022 Uttar Pradesh verdict: bipolarisation and BJP consolidation -Gilles Verniers, Srishti Gupta and SV Sai Vikas
-Scroll.in The trajectories of parties’ vote share since 1993 indicate the magnitude of transformation of the state’s politics. The Bharatiya Janata Party has made history by winning a consecutive election in Uttar Pradesh at the end of a five-year term, something that only Sampurnanand, the state’s second Chief Minister, succeeded to do in 1957. The BJP’s victory is all the more impressive as it also increased its vote share, from 39.7% to 41.3%....
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