Centre asks West Bengal government to send report on post-poll violence at once
Around 14 deaths of political workers have been reported from West Bengal since May 2 when the assembly results were announced.
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Security personnel keep vigil at a polling station in Sitalkuchi assembly seat in West Bengal s Cooch Behar district. (Photo | PTI)
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NEW DELHI: Alleging that there is “no let-up in post poll violence,” the Union Home secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla on Wednesday once again wrote to the chief secretary of West Bengal alleging that “no effective measures have been taken by state government so far to contain violence.”
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NEW DELHI: The Centre on Thursday asked states and Union Territories to immediately impose lockdowns in areas with high Covid spread.
The government, however, did not make any mention of a national lockdown in its Covid guidelines for the month of May.
Through an order issued on Thursday evening, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) asked the states and UTs to take the necessary containment measures in view of ‘the unprecedented surge in Covid cases across the country .
The fresh guidelines for COVID-19 management came amid a sudden spike in the number of cases and a shortage of beds, ICUs and oxygen in some parts of the country like Delhi.
New police camps in their lair angered Maoists, says Centre on Chhattisgarh gunfight
After the 2017 Burkapal encounter, security forces are employing various strategies to counter the influence and movement of Maoists.
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A security personnel is shifted for treatment after he was injured in an encounter with Naxals in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh. (Photo | PTI)
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NEW DELHI: When Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday said that the Maoists attacked out of desperation to counter new security camps opened in their core areas, he described the possibility that many security experts were apprehending for the past few months.
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NEW DELHI: The Centre on Wednesday defended its decision to install spikes at farmer protest sites on the Delhi-UP border, saying it is to prevent a repeat of the Republic Day violence.
“The barricades at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border were strengthened to prevent any possible repeat of the conduct displayed on January 26,” Minister of State for Home Affairs G Kishan Reddy said in the Rajya Sabha.
The minister said no road was dug up at the Delhi border in view of farmers’ agitation.
Thousands of protesters had clashed with police near Delhi’s ITO during the tractor parade called by various farmer unions on January 26, with a section storming the Red Fort and clashing with security. Over 300 police personnel were injured during the clashes.
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NEW DELHI: Firdaus, her husband and her two children had a ‘normal’ life a year back the couple would spend most of their time attending to the needs of their children and pampering them. But when her husband Furqan was killed in the north-east Delhi riots last year, life for 27-year-old Firdaus turned upside down.
Apart from dealing with economic hardships and uncertainties, she had to deal with many personal setbacks.
Suffering a miscarriage was one of them. She is among several women, who after losing the sole breadwinners in their families, have been pushed to the brink.