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Extrapolated data hints at high Covid-19 death toll in Uttar Pradesh -GS Mudur

-The Telegraph The report by Citizens for Justice and Peace implies that the excess casualties between January 2020 and August 2021 were all caused by the virus A non-government human rights group has estimated that between January 2020 and August 2021, Uttar Pradesh witnessed nearly 1.4 million excess deaths or nearly 60 times the state’s official Covid-19 death toll of 23,382 till Saturday. Excess deaths means deaths over and above the figures expected...

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In 2021, COVID Deaths Surged in Stunning Fashion in Eastern UP, Investigation Finds -CJP and TheWire.in

-Citizens for Justice and Peace and The Wire Data suggests that areas in eastern Uttar Pradesh, especially PM Modi’s Lok Sabha constituency of Varanasi, had 60% excess deaths during the pandemic relative to 2019. The Wire is grateful to Murad Banaji for his help with preparing this report. Data collected and analysed by Citizens for Justice and Peace, a human rights organisation, and independent experts shows deaths in the Purvanchal region of eastern...

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Home ministry seeks more time to frame CAA rules -Vijaita Singh

-The Hindu Consultation process is on, it tells parliamentary committee The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) sought has asked the parliamentary committee for more time to frame the rules of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA), on the grounds that consultation process is on. The Hindu reported earlier that MHA had sought another extension on January 9 from the parliamentary committees on subordinate legislation in the Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha to frame...

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Abrogation of Art 370 Halted Transparency Act in J&K -Raja Muzaffar Bhat

-Newsclick.in The SC has issued notice to the Centre over public authorities failing to disclose information under the central RTI Act, which applies to the region since 2019. Despite the rhetorical emphasis on e-governance, public authorities have failed to make suo moto information disclosures on their official websites in Jammu and Kashmir and other parts of the country. In 2013, the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) directed all public authorities to...

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Collective conscience -Shiv Visvanathan

-The Telegraph A Truth Commission for the Northeast This essay is a letter to my fellow Indians. It’s a prayer, a plea, a proposal for a project, a moral experiment. It was triggered by the emptiness of Independence Day, when a majoritarian, mediocre India confronted the vacuity of its political self. These feelings increased upon reading reports on December 4 of the massacre of several civilians in Nagaland. They were waiting at...

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