-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Delhi's air quality nosedived towards the 'hazardous' category on next morning of Diwali as people violated Supreme Court order and burst firecrackers before and after the 8pm to 10pm time frame in many areas, the authorities said. The overall Air Quality Index (AQI) PM 2.5 was recorded 805 at 6am today in the national capital. Several areas in the city recorded AQI over 900, Anand Vihar at...
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Where prejudice is crime -Vrinda Grover
-The Indian Express Hashimpura verdict highlights the bias within police against religious minorities. It is a chilling coincidence that on October 31, a date that marks the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1984 and the unleashing of state-engineered violence against the Sikhs, the Delhi High Court held 16 policemen of the 41st Battalion of UP Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) guilty of “the targeted killing by armed forces of the unarmed,...
More »With Prices Hitting Rock Bottom, Garlic Could Sway Polls in Rajasthan, MP -Kabir Agarwal
-TheWire.in Farmers are unhappy with the lack of adequate government support and are likely to make it difficult for the BJP to return to power, especially in Rajasthan. New Delhi: On October 25, while addressing a rally in Jhalawar, Rajasthan, Rahul Gandhi spoke about garlic prices hitting rock-bottom in the region. Prices had fallen to Rs 2 a kilogram, he said. In Madhya Pradesh too, Gandhi spoke about falling garlic prices. In...
More »In Poll-Bound Madhya Pradesh, Farmers' Anger Grows Despite A Good Harvest -Lola Nayar
-Outlook India In the fertile farmlands of Mandsaur, political allegiance still grows tall. As does farmers’ discontent and anger. Tractor-trolleys laden with sacks of mostly soybean form a serpentine queue outside the foodgrain mandi in Mandsaur. Farmers make their way inside in ones and twos, unpack the bags and unload their produce among growing mounds of soybean in the wide mandi yard. A reasonably good monsoon has ensured a bountiful harvest for...
More »Our New Hate-Crime Database: 76% Of Victims Over 10 Years Minorities; 90% Attacks Reported Since 2014 -Alison Saldanha & Karthik Madhavapeddi
-Factchecker.in Mumbai: In 254 religious identity-based hate crimes reported in India between January 1, 2009, and October 29, 2018, at least 91 persons were killed and 579 were injured, according to a new FactChecker.in database, released on October 30, 2018. About 90% (229) of these attacks were reported after May 2014, when the current Bharatiya Janata Party-led government assumed power nationally. The Citizen’s Religious Hate-Crime Watch (Hate Crime Watch, in short) records...
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