-PTI Kolkata/ Siliguri: In a controversial incident, a leader of Communist Party of India (Marxist) student wing who was arrested after a clash with ruling Trinamool Congress activists was chained to his bed at a state-run hospital in judicial custody. The first-year student, Santosh Sahani, a member of the Students Federation of India, was arrested on April 10 after a clash between Trinamool Congress and Left supporters in Siliguri. The chain was later...
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200 Dalit families flee village after attack by upper caste group
-The Hindu Thirteen people of the Ror community have been arrested and heavy security deployed in Pabnawa village of Kaithal district in Haryana, after a 400-strong mob allegedly launched an attack on 150 Dalits on Saturday, causing some 200 Dalit families to flee the village. Their houses were allegedly looted and women humiliated. The attack was a sequel to Dalit boy Suryakant's marriage with Ror community girl Meena on April 10. The...
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-The Times of India KAITHAL: As politicians and administrators in many northern Indian states were preparing to celebrate Dalit icon B R Ambedkar's 122nd birth anniversary this weekend, more than 100 Dalits were fleeing a small Haryana village after being chased by upper caste goons, angry that a Dalit man had dared to marry one of their girls. Meena and Surya Kant of Pabnama village in Kaithal were in a relationship for...
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KEY TRENDS • According to National Sample Survey report no. 583: Persons with Disabilities in India, the percentage of persons with disability who received aid/help from Government was 21.8 percent, 1.8 percent received aid/help from organisation other than Government and another 76.4 percent did not receive aid/ help *8 • As per National Family Health Survey-4 (NFHS-4), the Under-five Mortality Rate (U5MR) was 57.2 per 1,000 live births (for the non-STs it was 38.5)...
More »In-depth probe imperative, says Manipur women’s panel-Iboyaima Laithangbam
-The Hindu Imphal: The Manipur Women's Commission has said it is imperative to hold an in-depth police investigation into the April 3 murder of Satyabhama Ningombam. Talking to journalists here, Chairperson Ibetombi Irengbam said the police should interact with the bereaved family, local residents and employees of the Pathology department of the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences here, where Sayabhama was a research fellow. The post-mortem report should be properly studied and if...
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