A peasant activist in Assam, who had unsuccessfully fought as a candidate of a regional outfit in the last Assembly elections, has been marked as a "doubtful" citizen in the police verification report that was issued during his passport renewal process. Pranab Doley, a member of the state's indigenous Mising community, said that he has been asked to give "proof of his
Indo-Canadian Powerlifter Encourages Supporting Front-Line Workers And Teachers thelinkpaper.ca - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thelinkpaper.ca Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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NEW YORK, May 25, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) On Wednesday, May 26, 2021 at 10:00 am at http://bit.ly/BFPLessIsMore, Black activists and organizers who are members of Black Freedom Project (BFP), alongside allied state legislators, will sound the alarm on the urgent need to pass the Less Is More Act (S.1144 (Benjamin) / A.5576 (Forrest)) this legislative session. It is no secret that the state of parole in New York is in disarray. Technical violations of parole such as missing curfew or an appointment or testing positive for drugs are a leading cause of mass incarceration in this state. To make matters worse, these nonsensical rules are administered unequally as Black and Latinx people are 12x and 4x more likely to be incarcerated for a technical parole violation. This re-incarceration serves no legitimate purpose except to disrupt lives and to undo any gains that people who have been previously incarcerated have made. It is also a monumental waste of resources – to the tun
Sumeet Sharma
Vancouver-based gold medal powerlifting champion Sumeet Sharma has been spending some time out of the gym during the COVID-19 pandemic to pass on his appreciation for frontline workers.
Sharma was supposed to go to the Czech Republic for a powerlifting championship when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. The competition was cancelled leaving Sharma with extra funds, which he decided to use to purchase food and supplies for healthcare workers, teachers and other frontline workers.
Sumeet Sharma
“We had a lot of family friends working in the healthcare system, and just hearing their stories of what healthcare workers had to go through during these tough times really touched myself, my parents, my wife… We really wanted to put our heads together and see what we could do as a family,” Sharma told Daily Hive in an interview.