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November 25, 2016
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Before Modi banned Rs 500, Rs 1000 Notes BJP was Busy Investing in Real Estate-CATCHNEWS
Days before Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the demonetisation policy, his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) bought land worth crores of rupees.
The party, in power at the Centre, bought several land parcels in Bihar up to the first week of November. And on 8...
November 24, 2016
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एक पखवाड़े पूर्व अचानक देशवासियों को यह फ़रमान सुनाया गया कि चार घण्टे बाद देश की 86% मुद्रा सिर्फ़ कागज़ का टुकडा रह जायेगी। यह तुग़लकी फ़रमान था, कहावत के रूप में भी, भावात्मक रूप में भी और वास्तविक रूप में भी। आप विश्व के सबसे बड़े लोकतंत्र के, आप ही के शब्दों में, प्रधान 'सेवक' हैं। आपने कैसे इतना बड़ा कदम बिना सोचे विचारे देश की जनता पर थोप दिया?
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November 24, 2016
Carpet Bombing by Demonetisation Drives 70 per cent trucks off India's roads says Economic Times
Kultaran Singh Atwal, a transporter, owns seven trucks. Now, he says, he is forced to keep five of his fleet idle due to demonetisation, as he has been deprived of the minimum Rs 20,000 cash per truck per trip that he requires as running expenses.
Atwal is not an...
November 24, 2016
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After 1,322 days in arbitrary detention, journalist Mr. Mahmudur Rahman has been finally released on bail late on Wednesday afternoon (November 23). The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (FIDH-OMCT) have welcomed his long-overdue release, and urge authorities to drop all pending charges against him.
Acting editor of the Daily Amar Desh, a...
November 24, 2016
Background:
More than 300 Adivasi children have died in Malkangiri in the past two months of Japanese Encephalitis, official figure says 121 but local activists say the number is much higher, what is happening in Malkangiri?
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Firstly, 32 children have been confirmed to have died due to JE. This by itself is cause for concern and requires all...
November 24, 2016
Sonu Anugu, an Adivasi activist and Anand Madhi, a government school teacher refute the findings of the expert team constituted by the government in this Video story .
November 24, 2016
More than 300 Adivasi children have died in Malkangiri in the past two months of Japanese Encephalitis, official figure says 110 but local activists say the number is much higher, what is happening in Malkangiri.
Video Courtesy: Dalit Camera
Courtesy: India Resists
November 24, 2016
More than a week into demonetisation, the queues outside banks continue with no immediate end in sight. How quickly can the Reserve Bank of India print currency? Is this exercise actually ‘demonetisation’? How accessible is a bank to the average Indian? Find out as Praveen Chakravarty from IDFC Institute explains to Abhishek Waghmare:
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November 24, 2016
Accused of toeing Modi’s line of favouring corporate houses, the amendments to the age-old Chotanagpur Tenancy (CNT) Act and Santhal Pargana Tenancy (SPT) Act, passed through a voice vote that will irrevocably change they the occupancy rights of tribal over land
Water cannons to tame ruckus Image: Telehraph/Vijay Deo Jha
The Opposition's fierce protest against the Bills...
November 24, 2016
इंदौर। मोदी सरकार के नोटबंदी के फैसले के बाद देश भर में तूफान मचा हुआ है। सारी विपक्षी पार्टियां मोदी सरकार के खिलाफ हो गई हैं। इस बीच मध्य प्रदेश के इंदौर से एक अजीब हिटलरी फरमान जारी किया गया है। यह हिटलरी फरमान इंदौर के कलेक्टर पी नरहरि ने जारी किया है।
इंदौर के कलेक्टर पी नरहरि ने 14 नवंबर को एक आधिकारिक आदेश जारी कर कहा है, ''पुराने नोट को बदलने या उसके संबंध में व्हाट्सऐप,...