-The Hindu Association for Democratic Reforms analysis finds that 89% have declared assets estimated at over ₹1 crore. New Delhi: About a quarter of the sitting Rajya Sabha members have declared criminal cases against themselves, according to an analysis of their self-sworn affidavits by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) released on Wednesday. With three seats vacant and Kerala MP K.K. Ragesh’s affidavit being unavailable, the ADR report said an analysis of 229...
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Six months later, MHA yet to frame rules on CAA -Vijaita Singh
-The Hindu Parliamentary panel to seek status report More than six months after the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), 2019, was passed by Parliament, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) is yet to frame rules or inform Parliament about the delay in doing so. Without rules being notified, the Act cannot come into force or be implemented. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Subordinate Legislation, which has not received any communication from the MHA, has...
More »Satyagraha for access to online classes
-The Hindu 24 students in Attappady village couldn’t attend a single class yet PALAKKAD (Kerala): Twenty-four school students living in a remote village in Attappady staged a day-long hunger strike in front of their houses on Sunday as a last resort to grab the attention of the government to their plight. None of them have been able to attend a single class ever since schools in the State reopened in online mode on...
More »Tribal communities in Odisha’s protected forests better placed in keeping virus at bay -Satyasundar Barik
-The Hindu Their interaction with outsiders is less as Nature gives them abundant nutritious food in the shape of leafy vegetables, roots, tuber as well as fungi. BHUBANESWAR: With many States resorting to lockdown measures to break the chain of infections in the wake of the spiralling COVID-19 positive cases, tribal communities in Odisha’s protected forests seem to be better placed to keep the virus at bay during the monsoon season. Most national...
More »Police Joined Rioters During Delhi Violence, Alleges Delhi Minorities Commission’s Fact Finding Report -Tarique Anwar
-Newsclick.in The 134-page report was released by the commission on July 16 in Delhi. New Delhi: “The police was coordinating with the mob and the mob kept on chanting, ‘Dilli Police Zindabad’ (Long Live Delhi Police),” says a Delhi Minorities Commission report detailing the communal violence in North-East Delhi in February this year. The Commission has cast serious doubts on the credibility and impartiality of the Delhi Police on July 16 while...
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