-The Hindu To redraw and rename the Bodoland Territorial Area District (BTAD) in Assam The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), the Assam government and the Bodo groups on Monday signed an agreement to redraw and rename the Bodoland Territorial Area District (BTAD) in Assam, currently spread over four districts of Kokrajhar, Chirang, Baksa and Udalguri. As per the agreement, villages dominated by Bodos that were presently outside the BTAD would be included and...
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Shutdown in parts of Assam over Bodo accord
-The Hindu “We will not let the government implement any pact if we as major stakeholders in the Bodoland and adjoining areas are kept in the dark,” AKRSU general secretary Jibesh Ray said. Guwahati: A 12-hour shutdown called by several organisations on Monday against the Bodo accord signed in New Delhi evoked a mixed response in Assam. It was effective in some western and north-central districts. Organisations such as the All Koch Rajbongshi...
More »JNU violence: 4 contradictions in what university admin told police vs what it said in RTI reply -Munish Pandey
-IndiaToday.in Biometric systems and CCTV cameras at the server room were not vandalised in the first week of January, contrary to the claims made by the Jawaharlal Nehru University administration that Students had destroyed them on January 3, the varsity has said in an RTI reply. A Right To Information (RTI) reply filed by the Jawaharlal Nehru University administration on recent incidents in the university has exposed several discrepancies in the claims...
More »Women protesters are taking to the streets en masse to fight the CAA and police brutality -Anuradha Raman
-The Hindu They are homemakers and grandmothers, doctors and lawyers, Students and teachers. They are all women and they have come out of their homes in massive numbers to protest the CAA. It’s our country, they say. It’s our children’s country. And nobody can take that away from us Women. Suddenly, they are visible. Great-grandmothers, grandmothers, mothers, teenagers, baby girls. They have slowly but surely reclaimed a corner of a public ground...
More »More unemployed and self-employed people committed suicide than farmers in 2018, show NCRB data
-PTI Students and un-employed victims accounted for 7.6% (10,159) and 9.6% (12,936) of total suicides respectively. At least 35 unemployed and 36 self-employed people on an average ended their lives every day in 2018, with the two categories together accounting for 26,085 suicide deaths during the year, according to official data released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). Unemployed persons (12,936) were slightly behind those self-employed (13,149) who took their own lives,...
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