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Rejected as Voter, also denied a Passport? Here is how ‘New India’ deals with exclusion complaints under SIR: Former editor, Telegraph, R Rajagopal
The pithy, non-indulgant factual ‘note’ by the former editor of Telehraph, Kolkatta who is revered for his unique headlines for the newspaper, generated heat and waves over the week-end even as an utterly compromised and non-responsive administration watched on. R. Rajagopal penned this even as he informed the Prem Bhatia Journalism award that he was resigning from the Jury due to his acute disenchantment with the media profession.
CJP helps Amala Das get released on bail from Assam Detention Camp
Bitter-sweet conclusion to Bengali Hindu woman’s ordeal, as release comes five months after husband Gopesh’s institutional murder
Father Stan Swamy finally gets first Covid shot, health continues to deteriorate in jail
His medical note filed before the Bombay High Court on poor facilities states that Taloja houses 3,251 inmates instead of its capacity of 2,124, with only three Ayurvedic doctors on duty
Medical system in rural Uttar Pradesh is ‘Ram Bharose’: Allahabad HC
The court took exception to the fact that a dead body of one of the patients, who had collapsed in the bathroom and died, was disposed of as unidentified body
Manipur: Journalist, activist post comment on cow dung, charged under NSA
Journalist Kishorechandra Wangkhem, activist Erendro Leichombam arrested for social media posts that cow urine, dung doesn't cure Covid-19
A team that never was a hope provider for the poor
Mohan Bhagwat, Jaggi Vasudev and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar to “create hope” amidst Coronavirus pandemic
Shift Father Stan Swamy to hospital: Jharkhand Janadhikar Mahasabha
The CJP has also written to Maharashtra CM urging him to recommend the release of BK-15
New virus variant a formidable enemy, we enabled its spread: Dr Shahid Jameel
The virologist who recently quit as the head of INSACOG had warned about negligence and apathy allowed the virus to spread and also raised concerns about undercounting of Covid deaths
CJP approaches Maharashtra Gov’t for release of BK-15
Friends and family have complained about lack of communication and shared harrowing accounts of deteriorating health of people who are essentially political prisoners
Nearly 500 districts record soaring Covid positivity rate, Centre draws up three tier structure
As many as 479 out of 718 districts have reported a positivity rate above 10 percent, with Madhya Pradesh in the lead
Virologist Shahid Jameel quits INSACOG; offers no reason, but gov’t pressure suspected
The veteran scientist known to have openly criticised the central government for their poor management of the Covid-crisis in India, especially during the second wave of infection, said he had no obligation to give a reason for quitting.
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