-Scroll.in/ FactChecker.in The number of pending cases under the counter-terror law have been rising in the last seven years. Mohammed Ilyas, 38, and Mohammed Irfan, 33, were arrested in August 2012 by Maharashtra’s Anti-Terrorist Squad under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (among other charges) and accused of being linked to terror outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba. After being in jail for nine years, they were cleared of all charges by court, owing to lack of...
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Burnt body of Bihar missing journalist writing on ‘fake’ clinics found on highway: Report -Sohini Goswami
-Hindustan Times Two days before he disappeared, the Right to Information (RTI) Activist had written a post on Facebook in which he mentioned such clinics. A 23-year-old journalist working on a scam involving medical clinics in Bihar’s Madhubani district was found dead days after he went missing. His burnt body was reportedly found tossed by the roadside near a village in the district. An NDTV article said Buddhinath Jha or Avinash Jha was...
More »Body Of Bihar Journalist, RTI Activist Found Burned, Tossed By Roadside -Manish Kumar
-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...
More »Explained: Is PMGKAY still needed? -Priscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu Right to Food Activists insist that vulnerable communities still need the support from Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana, Centre’s foodgrain programme. The story so far: A scheme to provide free food grain to ration card holders as part of COVID-19 relief comes to an end this month. While the Food Ministry says the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana is no longer needed as the economy is reviving, Right...
More »A slogan no longer sectarian -Harish S Wankhede
-The Hindu ‘Jai Bhim’ is inspiring various marginalised communities and not just Dalits to bring about transformative change. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar is often seen only as a Dalit icon. And ‘Jai Bhim’, a slogan coined by Babu Hardas, a firebrand Ambedkarite working class leader from Nagpur, is usually considered as a sectarian greeting. However, this salutation, which displays the reverence that the deprived sections have for Ambedkar’s contribution to their emancipation, is...
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