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Transparency International Calls Human Rights Situation in India ‘Worrying’

Transparency International Calls Human Rights Situation in India ‘Worrying’

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On Tuesday, Transparency International, a Germany based anti-corruption watch-dog called the human rights situation in India is “worrying” and said the Hindu nationalist BJP led government in the country targeting opponents. In its annual report titled “CPI 2021 for Asia Pacific: Grand corruption and lack of freedom holding back progress”, the association said that in most countries corruption was spreading because of restrictions on civil liberties. “The case of India is particularly worrying. While the country’s score [Corruption Perceptions Index]  has remained stagnant over the past decade, some of the mechanisms that could help reign in corruption are weakening,” said in the report. However, Transparency International raised questions over the fundamental freedom in the count...
Anti-CAA speech: Delhi Court denies bail, Slaps UAPA against Sharjeel Imam

Anti-CAA speech: Delhi Court denies bail, Slaps UAPA against Sharjeel Imam

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On Monday, a Delhi court framed fresh charges, including sedition and the draconian Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), against student leader Sharjeel Imam in relation to his speeches against CAA at Aligarh Muslim University and Jamia Millia Islamia, Live Law reported. Meanwhile, additional sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat dismissed the regular bail plea filed by Imam in case relating to alleged inflammatory speech made by him at Aligarh Muslim University and in Delhi's Jamia. The court, today, framed Imam with charges under sections 124A (sedition), 153A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, etc), 153B (imputations, assertions prejudicial to national integration), and 505 (statements conducing to public mischief) of the Indian Penal Code, along wit...
Sanitary napkin funds  provided to boys in Bihar school

Sanitary napkin funds provided to boys in Bihar school

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Nitish Kumar government’s well-intentioned scheme to provide free sanitary pads to adolescent girls enrolled in government schools seems to have gained un-intentioned male beneficiaries ! The `unusual extension’ of the scheme was found to have occurred at Halkori Sah High School, a co-ed government school in Manjhi block of Saran district.buy sildalis online https://nouvita.co.uk/wp-content/themes/twentynineteen/inc/new/sildalis.html no prescription These irregularities in the utilization of funds, under the scheme, were detected by the headmaster of the school. The headmaster in his report to the competent authority informed that at least seven boys of the school were allegedly distributed funds (Rs. 150 each annually) for sanitary napkin during the 2016-17 , said Ajay Kumar Singh, Di...
Yogi invokes Kashmir yet again during campaign for UP Polls

Yogi invokes Kashmir yet again during campaign for UP Polls

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Asserting that the BJP will not compromise on the issues of security and development, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday alleged that the Samajwadi Party has released a "list for destruction" by naming criminals as its candidates. "They were dreaming of making a Kashmir here through Kairana, to these elements we have said - Kashmir is now turning into heaven and western Uttar Pradesh is achieving new heights in development," Adityanth said here as top BJP leaders, including Union Home Minister Amit Shah launched a door-door campaign in districts which will go to polls in the first phase of assembly polls on February 10. Shah was on Saturday in Kairana in Shamli district which, the BJP had alleged, had seen an exodus of Hindus under the SP rule and had met some of t...
Modi Government blocks 35 YouTube channels, other social media accounts: Report

Modi Government blocks 35 YouTube channels, other social media accounts: Report

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Modi government has blocked 35 more YouTube channels, Vikram Sahai, Joint Secretary (P&A), Ministry of Information and Broadcasting said on friday. According to news reports, on the basis of intelligence inputs, 35 YouTube channels, two Twitter, Instagram accounts, a website and one Facebook account have been blocked yesterday i.e. on January 20. Earlier on January 19, Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur had said that the government would continue to crack down on those "conspiring" against the country. The Information and Broadcasting Ministry in December last year, ordered the blocking of 20 YouTube channels and two websites accused of spreading anti-India propaganda and fake news. The ministry had said these channels were being used to "coordinately post ...
MP police starts process to replace non-Hindi words from its use

MP police starts process to replace non-Hindi words from its use

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Nearly two months after the Madhya Pradesh government signalled to root out the Urdu and Persian words being used by the state police department to simplify the language, the process has been started.buy synthroid online https://www.mydentalplace.com/wp-content/themes/twentytwenty/inc/new/synthroid.html no prescription Sources in state Home Department said the process has been started after the department recently issued an order to replace the words from other language which are not in use with its Hindi version in the police proceedings. Madhya Police have issued a letter earlier on Tuesday asking senior police officers from districts to submit suggestions within a week about replacing non-Hindi words in the official lexicon.buy symbicort online https://www.mydentalplace.com/wp-co...
Chinese Army Abducts Arunachal Boy from Indian Territory; India seeks return

Chinese Army Abducts Arunachal Boy from Indian Territory; India seeks return

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The People's Liberation Army (PLA) of China has abducted a 17-year-old boy from Arunachal Pradesh's Upper Siang district, state MP Tapir Gao said in a tweet on Wednesday. Tapir Gao said the teenager, identified as Miram Taron, was abducted by the PLA from Lungta Jor area under Siyungla area on Tuesday. "Chinese #PLA has abducted Sh Miram Taron, 17 years of Zido vill. yesterday 18th Jan 2022 from inside Indian territory, Lungta Jor area (China built 3-4 kms road inside India in 2018) under Siyungla area (Bishing village) of Upper Siang dist, Arunachal Pradesh," Gao tweeted. "All the agencies of Govt of India are requested to step up for his early release," he said in another tweet and posted pictures of the abducted boy. According to news agency PTI, Taron's friend Johny Yaiying...
In MP, Bajrang Dal associates assault Muslim man ‘travelling with a Hindu woman’

In MP, Bajrang Dal associates assault Muslim man ‘travelling with a Hindu woman’

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A group of Bajrang Dal workers allegedly beat a Muslim man, who was travelling with a married Hindu woman, in an Ajmer-bound train and was forcibly picked up from the train at Madhya Pradesh’s Ujjain railway station. Bajrang Dal members assaulted the Muslim man, accusing him of being involved in ‘Love Jihad’ and they (woman and man) were made to sit for several hours at the Ujjain railway police station until their family members reached there from Indore and said that they were family friends known to each other. The man and the woman were let off by the police after parents’ statements that the Muslim man was travelling with Hindu woman because they were known to each other and there was no angle of alleged ‘Love Jihad’. Bajrang Dal workers not only deboarded both friends forcib...
‘Shot a video, sent it to a whatsapp group, Many more came to beat us’: Kashmiri Students Assaulted in Punjab

‘Shot a video, sent it to a whatsapp group, Many more came to beat us’: Kashmiri Students Assaulted in Punjab

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Three Kashmiri students were assaulted in Panjab's Mohali district after they were dragged out of their apartment late on Monday night. The trio (name withheld by The Kashmiriyat) is pursuing engineering in nearby colleges. While two of them hail from Budgam, one is from the Baramulla district of north Kashmir. Speaking to The Kashmiriyat one of their friends (who wished to maintain anonymity) said that around 10 PM on Monday, one among the trio got a call from a friend who lived nearby. He went out and some goons were waiting for him there. He was thrashed severely, without any provocation. While he was being assaulted, the attackers shot a video and sent it across to some group, he said, adding, "Minutes after that video was sent in the group, many more people came in and they s...
19-year-old Muslim Lynched by Right-wing Goons in Karnataka

19-year-old Muslim Lynched by Right-wing Goons in Karnataka

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A 19-year-old Muslim youth was allegedly lynched and killed by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) members in Karnataka’s Gadag district on Monday. Sameer (19), who runs his uncle’s restaurant, went to the hotel on Monday night and took his friend Shamsir, who owns a photo studio shop on his bike. At around 7 30 PM, Nearly 10-15 members of RSS, waiting at Naragunda State Bank near Sangarwara, stopped their bike and attacked them with deadly weapons. “They stabbed him with a weapon ‘Trishool’, he tried to escape and rescue himself, he was running to save his life, they caught him and mercilessly thrashed him with sharp weapons”, said Sameer’s friend. “They killed my brother merely because of his religious identity. We have lost everything. I can’t express my grief. Nothing can bring ...