-The Hindu It is essential that authorities ensure that the perpetrators are brought to justice speedily, the UN in India says The government reacted sharply to a statement by the UN resident Coordinator in India Renata Lok-Dessallien, who had expressed concern over the cases of alleged rapes of young girls in Hathras and Balrampur, calling the statement ‘unwarranted’. “The U.N. Resident Coordinator in India should be aware that these cases have been taken...
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Nearly 24 fatal accidents and 47 serious accidents have happened in various coal mines of the country during this year till 31st August. Likewise, 18 fatal accidents and 13 serious accidents have taken place in non-coal mines during the same time period. The accident figures are low this year in comparison to the previous ones thanks to a lower demand for output from these mines against the backdrop of COVID-19...
More »It isn’t first time Delhi Police probe into riots is being questioned. Happened in 1984 too -Revathi Krishnan
-ThePrint.in Several activists and civil servants have raised concerns about Delhi Police's investigation into February riots, calling it 'biased'. Something similar happened in 1984 as well. New Delhi: Activists, politicians, former IPS officers and many other civil servants have raised concerns about the Delhi Police probe into the February riots that led to the deaths of over 50 people. Nine former IPS officers even wrote to Delhi Police Commissioner S.N. Shrivastava asking him...
More »Lynchings, migrant deaths, student suicides: 20 things Union govt doesn't have data on
-TheNewsMinute.com In the season of ‘no data available’ TNM lists an exhaustive number of things that the Union Government claims it has no data on. After the Union Government’s response of ‘no data available’ to several questions in the parliament, the way in which the country’s official statistics and data is being managed has come into question. While it has become fodder for many memes, the dearth of data, either due to...
More »A session marked by govt’s stock reply: It has no data -Sindhu Bhattacharya
-TheFederal.com Crucial questions such as on migrants, farmers and jobs remain in ‘suspended animation’ as a parliamentary panel takes a dim view of govt’s inability to present a clear view of nation’s socio-economic indicators The ongoing monsoon session of Parliament has been in the news more for the government hiding behind its stock reply — lack of data – than for legislating. Many questions have remained just that. These involved the number of...
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