The Latehar district administration has sent a report to the Union home ministry, highlighting the possible reason of the murder of MGNREGA activist Niyamat Ansari. Ansari, a social activist and an associate of socio-economist Jean Dreze, was beaten up by an armed group of Maoists and members of Van Raksha Samiti on the night of March 2 after he was dragged out of his house at Jerua village in Manika block...
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Another woman dies at Jodhpur hospital
A 45-year-old woman, who was shifted from Umaid Hospital to M.G. Hospital — the medical centres in the city where 15 women died last month after developing serious Post-delivery complications — died on Tuesday. “Geeta Devi was admitted to Umaid Hospital on January 10 and operated upon for a gynaecological problem. She suffered a cardiac arrest the next day, and was admitted to the intensive care unit of M.G. Hospital on...
More »Delhi sets Oct deadline for UID
Delhi Government is gearing up to commence work on bringing the entire city under the "Adhar" project wherein every person will be enrolled and issued a Unique Identification Number. The state has set October as the deadline for completing the UID enrolment exercise. Chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Monday chaired a meeting to review the status of the UID project. The meeting was attended by education minister Arvinder Singh, urban development...
More »Co-crusader shifted from house to govt building
Bhukhan Singh, a close associate of MGNREGA activist Neeyamat Ansari who had been beaten to death on the night of March 2, has been shifted to a government building following "serious threats" to his life. Singh, the co crusader of Ansari, has been put up in a room in the Manika block office amid tight security. He too hails from Jeruwa village like Ansari. Latehar SP Kuldip Dwivedi said the step was...
More »Rebels own up to Ansari killing by Suman K Shrivastava & Santosh K Kiro
Chief minister Arjun Munda today asked director-general of police (DGP) G.S. Rath to speed up the probe into Niyamat Ansari’s killing and book the guilty at the earliest, hours after the CPI(Maoist) claimed responsibility for the March 2 murder. The development came on a day the DGP dubbed the slain MGNREGS activist a “man of debatable character”. Last night, some Maoist pamphlets in which the banned outfit claimed that it had carried...
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