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The Uttar Pradesh State Law Commission delivered the primary draft of the proposed Population (control, disinfection and government assistance) Bill 2021 on Friday, 9 July. The proposed bill, pointed toward controlling the state's populace, comes around a half year before the Assembly races. Ideas and adjustments have been looked for from the overall population inside the following 10 days. Boss Minister Yogi Adityanath will deliver the populace strategy on World Population Day on 11 July. The draft bill of the proposed Population Control Act has arrangements to suspend violators of the two child standard from advantages of government plans and restricting proportion card units to four. It likewise proposes to ban them from challenging nearby body decisions, or going after government...

The Delhi Police Special Cell has registered an FIR against unknown people for creating an app named 'Sulli Deals' on GitHub. The app was created for stealing photos of Muslim women, illegally would auction these photos. A case FIR under section 354-A of IPC has been registered and the investigation is underway. "Acting on a complaint received on National Cybercrime Reporting Portal regarding Sulli Deals Mobile Application, an FIR under section 354-A (Assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) of the Indian Penal Code has been registered by the Cyber Crime Unit and investigation has started," a police official has said. According to the official, a notice has been sent to GitHub to share the details about the case. This comes a day after Delhi Com...

Delhi Commission for Women chief Swati Maliwal has issued a notice to the police over a ”serious” matter of cyber-crime, where pictures of several Muslim women were displayed online without their consent and termed as ‘Sulli Deal of the day. Photos of hundreds of them were uploaded by an unidentified group on an app using GitHub by the name of ‘Sulli Deals’ on Sunday, 4 July. The women displayed by the app were put for auction. The app came to light when people started sharing their ‘deal of the day on Twitter, but it has since been removed by GitHub. In the notice, DCW chief Swati Maliwal asked the Deputy Commissioner of Police to provide a copy of the FIR registered in the matter and details of the accused identified and arrested. Maliwal has given the police one week to provide...

After the PM was named among the 37 "predators of press freedom" by the global body Reporters Without Borders (RSF), The Washington Post's Press Freedom Partnership's launched the 10 most urgent list for the month of July 2021, in which 4 of the journalists are Indian nationals. The Press Freedom Partnership happens to be a public service initiative from The Washington Post to promote press freedom and raise awareness of the rights of journalists worldwide who are in pursuit of the truth. The July 2021 list of 10 most pressing cases of press freedom abuses around the world, as identified by the One Free Press Coalition, focused on the journalists who may have contracted covid-19 due to detention conditions or on those journalists "who have been exposed to the whims of authorities in ...

On Tuesday, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights' office in a statement said, "We are deeply saddened and disturbed by the death of 84-year-old Father Stan Swamy, a human rights defender, and Jesuit priest, in Mumbai yesterday, following his arrest in October 2020 under India's Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA)." The statement read that Father Stan had been held in pre-trial detention without bail since his arrest, charged with terrorism-related offenses in relation to demonstrations that date back to 2018. And that he was a long-standing activist, particularly on the rights of indigenous peoples and other marginalized groups. While, the statement says, in Mumbai's Taloja Central Jail, his health deteriorated, and he reportedly contracted COVID-19. His repe...

Legendary actor Dilip Kumar has passed away at the age of 98 due to age-related complications. The Padma Vibhushan actor died at 07:30 am in Mumbai’s Khar Hinduja hospital. Family members of the actor confirmed the news on his Twitter handle. "With a heavy heart and profound grief, I announce the passing away of our beloved Dilip Saab, few minutes ago. We are from God and to Him we return," the tweet read. Kumar was hospitalised two times in June. He was hospitalised on June 6 after he complained of breathlessness. The thespian was discharged on June 11 after being treated for bilateral pleural effusion. He was hospitalised again on June 30 for similar issues. The Mughal-e-Azam actor is survived by his wife and actor Saira Banu. His career spanned almost six decades. The ...

Earlier on Sunday, Mohan Bhagwat while addressing a function organized by RSS's minority wing, Muslim Rashtriya Manch in Ghaziabad said that those who are lynching Muslims in the name of cow are going against Hindutva. “If a Hindu says that no Muslim should live here, then the person is not Hindu. Cow is a holy animal but the people who are lynching others are going against Hindutva. Law should take its own course against them without any partiality," Bhagwat said. The ironical statements didn't sit well with many including the AIMIM Chief Asadudin Owaisi, who said, “These criminals would not know the difference between cow and buffalo but the names of Junaid, Akhlaq, Pehlu, Rakbar, Alimuddin were enough to kill." Owaisi further said, "This hatred is the product of Hindutva. These...

On Tuesday, various leaders of the major opposition parties wrote a letter to the President, Ramnath Kovind, expressing "grief and outrage at the death of Father Stan Swamy under custody." In the letter, the opposition party leaders say that the 84-year-old Jesuit priest and activist who fought for the Adivasis in Jharkhand was arrested last October on "trumped-up charges under the draconian UAPA and was sought to be linked with the Bhima Koregaon case." The letter further says that Swamy was denied treatment despite severe ailments, including Parkinson's. And that it was "only after a nationwide campaign was conducted that even a sipper to drink liquids was made available to him in jail." The leaders expressed their anguish over the unheeded appeals demanding that he be shifted o...

A Hindu woman in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur city has said that she was forced by BJP leaders to make a false conversion statement against her Muslim husband and file an FIR against him for forcibly converting her, Dainik Bhaskar reported. The woman identified as Sapna Rajput, who runs a flower shop at a temple in Kanpur, said that the BJP leaders got an FIR registered against Naushad, her husband and she put her thumb impression on the FIR without understanding it. The FIR registered at Feelkhana Police Station maintained that she was forcefully converted to Islam and married to Naushad. It added that Naushad forcefully circumcised her two and a half-year-old child. The woman later dismissed all the allegations against her Muslim husband. ”They came to me and said, your husband is Mus...

The authorities have arrested several doctors and medical workers for involvement in a huge scam selling Covid-19 vaccines in India, to which thousands of people have fallen prey. A senior official of the Mumbai Police Department, Vishal Thakur, has said that atleast 12 fake vaccination drives were held in or near the financial capital Mumbai. "They were using saline water and injecting it," he said. "Every fake vaccination camp that they held, they were doing this." It is estimated that over 2,500 people were given fake shots. The drive organizers had also charged the victims fee for the shots, of which they earned around $ 28,000 in total. "We have arrested doctors," Thakur added. "They were using a hospital which was producing the fake certificates, vials, syringes." He i...