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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
A three judge bench led by Chief Justice of India T S Thakur expressed surprise at the Modi government’s reluctance to appoint an independent ombudsman against corruption; it also observed that the law to have Lokpal was passed after a prolonged struggle by civil society and it must become functional regardless whether the incumbent government wants it or notThe Supreme Court on Wednesday,...
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 23, 2016
Reliance Ports gets Rs 1,767 cr irregular tax benefit: CAG
New Delhi: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has pulled up the Income Tax Department for giving benefit of Rs 1,767 crore to the port and terminal arm of Reliance Industries by allowing deductions meant for public facilities to the company's captive jetties. It said the income tax assessing officer allowed deduction of Rs 5...
November 23, 2016
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PATNA: Police in Bihar’s eastern Madhepura district on Tuesday arrested two of the six menaccused of setting afire as many as 18 houses belonging to a Mahadalit community — the poorest among the Dalit communities living in Bihar.
Media reports say that nearly 50 people from the distressed Mahadalit community in Udakishan area, many of them...
November 23, 2016
SILENCED: Rationalists Dr Narendra Dabolkar, Govind Pansare and M M Kalburgi were murdered in cold blood by fascist elements Dakshinayan Abhiyan, an initiative taken by Padma Shri Dr Ganesh Devy, is organising a convention to bring rationalist and liberals together to preserve the freedom of speech and thought guaranteed by the constitution. The convenor of the three-day convention starting...
November 22, 2016
Rogue military personnel? Or a deliberate policy of abuse? Day 6 of our 7 day openDemocracy's series on alleged abuse by British soldiers in Iraq.
Documents in the military court room in Colchester, Essex, where four soldiers and three ex-soldiers accused of the murder of an Iraqi civilian stood trial back in September 2005. Corporal Scott Evans, 32, Private Billy Nerney, 24,...