-TheWire.in Opposition leaders have lashed out at the police's 'highhanded' behaviour. New Delhi: The Tripura Police has booked 102 people under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act for protesting, or even merely mentioning, the recent communal violence in the state’s northern districts on different social media platforms. This latest move reflects the trend of Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled states attempting to criminalise protests. According to sources in the Tripura Police, cases have been filed...
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Madhya Pradesh Woman Dies As Hospital Staff Allegedly Celebrated Diwali
-PTI/ NDTV.com A video of the hospital staff celebrating Diwali with fireworks circulated on social media. Sagar: A nurse was suspended and a show-cause notice was issued to a doctor after a 26-year-old woman allegedly died due to negligence of the staff in the maternity ward of a government hospital in Madhya Pradesh's Sagar district, an official said on Saturday. What prompted the action was a media report about some staff members lighting...
More »Charting a trade route after the MC12 -Biswajit Dhar
-The Hindu An upbeat global trade scenario provides an ideal setting for Trade Ministers to correct iniquitous rules and provisions The World Trade Organization (WTO)’s 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) is being convened in Geneva, Switzerland at the end of this month, a year-and-a-half after it was scheduled to be held in Kazakhstan (June 2020, but postponed due to the novel coronavirus pandemic). The MC12 is being held at an important juncture when...
More »An hour-by-hour account of how Delhi’s air quality tanked on Diwali -Abhishek Jha
-Hindustan Times Delhi air was cleaner on Diwali eve in 2021 than it was in 2019 and 2020. Things went downhill rapidly. Delhi woke up to one of its most polluted mornings this year after Diwali, according to Air Quality Index (AQI) data, with farm fires in Punjab and Haryana, and the use of fireworks on Diwali night (Thursday) contributing to the spike. To be sure, AQI is not the best metric for...
More »Five years later, it’s even more clear that demonetisation was a disaster for India -Arun Kumar
-Scroll.in The move brought about a policy-induced crisis for the country and did little to stop the flow of black money. The demonetisation of high-denomination currency notes on November 8, 2016, created a nightmare for citizens that lasted several months. Long queues formed outside the banks and ATMs to obtain swap denotified currency notes for new ones so that life could continue. This situation persisted even beyond December 30, 2016, the last...
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