-ThePrint.in Sikh families in the Terai region in Uttar Pradesh, of which Lakhimpur Kheri is a part, migrated to the region post Partition. Most of them practice farming. New Delhi: Four farmers were among the eight killed in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri Sunday after a convoy of three SUVs hit protesting farmers in the district. The four victims — Nachattar Singh (60), Lovepreet Singh (20), Daljeet Singh (35) and Gurvinder Singh (19) —...
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Fact-finding team paints a grim picture of Assam government -Pheroze L Vincent
-The Telegraph APCR reproduced an account that sheds more on the ugly backdrop to the police firing and atrocity that followed A delegation of rights defenders who visited Assam’s Darrang district, where a day labourer and a child were killed in a land reclamation drive in a Minority-dominated settlement last month, has reconstructed a grim picture of the government and private groups creating a situation that culminated in the police firing. The fact-finding...
More »Assam: Muslim Peasants Cultivating Land for Decades Evicted in Darrang Dist, 3 Reportedly Killed in Firing -Mahibul Hoque
-Newsclick.in The demolition of houses and displacement of about 5,000 people stem from the BJP government’s plan to start an ‘agricultural project’ in Gorukhuti. As we publish this article, there are reports that the eviction of Muslim families in Gorukhuti in Darrang District by Assam Police took an ugly turn on Thursday with reports of police firing claiming at least three lives. Unconfirmed reports said the death toll could be higher. The...
More »Only 8% of Minority students attend schools for Minority communities, NCPCR report says -Kritika Sharma
-ThePrint.in NCPCR report, which analyses data from 23,487 Minority schools across the country, says a little over 37% of total students in Minority schools belong to these communities. New Delhi: Only 8 per cent of a total 4,81,91,351 children from Minority communities, aged between 5 and 15, attend schools for Minority communities, a report by the National Council for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has found. Furthermore, just over 37 per cent (38,44,074)...
More »The neoliberal reforms of 1991 didn’t work as claimed -Jayati Ghosh
-Macroscan.com/ Livemint.com There is a common trope, fed especially to generations born after 1991, that economic progress and modernization in India really occurred only after ‘liberalizing’ economic reforms were introduced three decades ago. This is a travesty of the truth. Certainly, conditions for most Indians have improved since that watershed year. Per capita income went up more rapidly than before, life expectancy went up, infant and maternal mortality decreased, income poverty...
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