The two 100-meter high towers were demolished on Sunday August 28 in the suburbs of New Delhi. These buildings had been built illegally, a growing problem related to…
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India cracks down on journalism, again
Last Tuesday, as India celebrated a national holiday commemorating its democratic constitution, thousands of farmers marched and drove their tractors through New Delhi. It was the latest in a series of protests against agricultural reforms that many farmers fear will allow large corporations to crush them. Police tear-gassed the demonstrators and charged at the crowd with batons; as Vidya Krishnan wrote in
The Atlantic, “the dueling images a celebration of India’s democracy on the one hand, the crushing of dissent on the other were carried on a split screen by many news channels, inadvertently offering the perfect visual metaphor for modern India.” A twenty-five-year-old farmer named Navreet Singh was killed during the protest; officials claimed that he died in a tractor accident, but witnesses said that police shot Singh in the head an account supported by photographic evidence. Singh’s family has alleged a cover-up. “One doctor to
Updated Feb 02, 2021 · 05:21 pm Mandeep Punia | Mandeep Punia/Facebook
A court in Delhi on Tuesday granted bail to freelance journalist Mandeep Punia, who was arrested by the police from the Singhu border protest site last week. Punia, who is also a contributor to the
Caravan magazine, was accused of misbehaving with a policeman on duty.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Satvir Singh Lamba said in the bail order
that the first information report against Punia was registered nearly seven hours after alleged scuffle with the police
. “Moreover, the complainant, victims and witnesses are police personnel only,” he added. “Hence, there is no possibility that accused/applicant can able to influence any of the police officials.”