कानून का बोलबाला
December 22, 2016
The union government, despite the hype, spent only Rs 326 crore for cleaning Ganga, leaving more than Rs 1,700 crore unspent.
IANS report: It is not just the opposition which is out to target Prime Minister Narendra Modi's emotive connect with the river Ganga. Statistics show that very little has been done in the past two years of BJP rule - in spite of spending Rs 2,958 crore of...
December 22, 2016
We Oppose you here in Kashi, says the Pamphlet that has gone Viral on Social Media
Abhinav Tripathi has alleged “harassment of poor residents of Kashi at the hands of bank officials, lack of action against criminals controlling temples, mosques, churches and gurudwaras, appointment of people with dubious character to key posts by the Vice Chancellor of Benares Hindu University and...
December 22, 2016
A city under siege: never again? Abdalrhman Ismail/Reuters
The siege of Aleppo is a mass atrocity with unprecedented levels of visibility. Confronted with the horrific images of a destroyed city, and the testimonies of wounded survivors using social media to reach out to the world, many have argued that a complete meltdown of humanity is unfolding.
Some have lamented that the...
December 22, 2016
Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed on December 19, 2016, while addressing a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rally in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, that his government has not changed “even a comma or a full stop” on laws that regulate funding of political parties.
The claim is false because Modi’s minister of state, Kiren Rijju, admitted in May 2016 that his...
December 22, 2016
नई दिल्ली। बैंक अधिकारियों व कालाधन रखने वालों की मिलीभगत से जनधन खातों का खूब दुरुपयोग किया जा रहा है। जानकारी के मुताबिक जनधन खातों में पहले कालाधन जमा किए गया और फिर निकाल भी लिए गया। यही नहीं बैंक अधिकारियों ने पहले ही खाताधारकों से विदड्रॉल फॉर्म भी साइन करा लिए थे। इनकम टैक्स की इन्वेस्टिगेशन विंग ने ऐसे कई मामले सामने आने के बाद जनधन खातों की जांच शुरू कर दी है।
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December 22, 2016
The Union government has finally woken up to the dangerous situation in Manipur and has sent 4000 central paramilitary troops to control ethnic tension which has been building over weeks and are now threatening to spiral out of control. It should have done this at least a month ago when as a consequence of an indefinite blockade on the lifelines of Manipur by a Naga civil organisation, United...
December 22, 2016
12 dead and 48 injured on the eve of Christmas, and a Tunisian is a suspect
Analysts are still amazed that a truck, used to carry goods, can be transformed into a weapon by Islamic terrorists. As the Berlin truck attack shows, perhaps anything can be turned into an agent of destruction. But this is not the first incident involving such an unconventional weapon. The Nice attack in France...
December 22, 2016
Minister Piyush Goyal ...
December 22, 2016
The Ashram Road Ahmedabad District Co-operative bank reportedly got a whopping Rs 500 crore deposit, just after the notes ban; the bank has BJP President as Director. ED and IT officials conducted a 6-hour long raid on December 19
Reportedly, three days after the announcement of demonitisation, that is between November 8 and 12, 2016. a co-operative bank of which BJP President Amit Shah is...
December 21, 2016
Following the Delhi High Court’s decisions, the Delhi Police has been searching the campus of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus, 65 days after the disappearance of post graduate student, Najeeb Ahmad. The police, eager to police JNU has been combing all hostels, schools, the central library, the forests and...