The Supreme Court today described the midnight crackdown on Baba Ramdev’s supporters at Ramlila Maidan last summer as a glaring example of the “trust deficit” between the government and the people, and blamed both the police and the Baba for neglecting the common man caught in the brick-batting between them. The people who were “rudely” woken up at the maidan became the “ultimate sufferers” of the showdown in the dark between...
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Children, parents talk of school daze by Santosh K Kiro
As many as 100 girls from Gusai Baliya in Barkagaon block of Hazaribagh district can’t study as the nearest school is about 15km away The primary school at Belamundwar village in Hazaribagh Sadar block has 155 students but no permanent teacher. It needs at least five trained teachers, but is struggling with two para-teachers The primary school at Simgra in Khunti district has only one teacher for 101 students Halwai Tola primary school...
More »CPM murders: Cops don’t seek custody of Didi men by Madhuparna Das
Raising questions of credibility and independence, the state police today did not seek custody of the four Trinamool Congress supporters named in the FIR for the murders of a former CPM MLA and a CPM district committee member. This despite the fact that they were booked under Sections 302 and 304 of IPC. The judge had to grant “judicial custody” to the four accused. Senior police officials said that the norm...
More »Push for offload stick on airlines by Ananya Sengupta
Jeeja Ghosh, the disability activist who was forced off a Goa-bound flight because she suffers from cerebral palsy, joins a long list of passengers who have faced such humiliation. “What happened to Jeeja isn’t something new. For every Jeeja case that gets reported in the media, there are 10-15 others that don’t get reported. It is only through heavy fines and exemplary punishment that one can ensure that these incidents are...
More »Virbhadra hits out at BJP govt, raises Prashant Bhushan’s land transaction
-Express News Service Union Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Virbhadra Singh on Tuesday tore into the state BJP government on various issues like corruption, illegal land deals and dynastic rule, and did not spare the state Congress leadership either for not playing the role of an effective Opposition. The five-time former chief minister raised the issue of land transfer recently allowed under Section 118 of the HP Tenancy and Land...
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