: Saturday, May 1, 2021, 4:53 PM IST
India cuts a sorry figure in the run-up to the World Press Freedom Day on May 3, writes Anil Singh
Among those booked in recent years under the draconian UAPA and left to rot in jail include civil rights activists, lawyers and academicians in the 2018 Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad case, students arrested in the anti-CAA protests, human rights defenders, RTI activists and even an 83-year-old Jesuit priest, Stan Swamy.
India has been famously described as a land where many centuries co-exist but now, it is also one where many versions of the truth co-exist; somewhat like the six blind men discovering an elephant.
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Even as Nanavati Super Speciality Hospital has finally said that the ailing 81- year-old Telugu poet - Varavara Rao – is fit for discharge, Senior Advocate Anand Grover urged the Bombay High Court on.
The year NIA cracked 2019 Pulwama terror attack, Bhima Koregaon cases
Sun, Dec 27 2020 10:37:46 AM
By Anand Singh
New Delhi, Dec 27 (IANS): The year 2020 proved a fruitful year for the National Investigation Agency (NIA) as it cracked two major cases and filed charge sheets in the 2019 Pulwama terror attack case and the 2017 Bhima Koregaon violence case.
On February 14, 2019, terrorists rammed an explosive laden vehicle into the cavalcade of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) convoy leaving at least 40 troopers dead.
Following the delay in the charge sheet in the 2019 terror attack case, the opposition parties have questioned the government.
The NIA filed 13,500 page charge sheet in a Special Court in Jammu in late August this year and named Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) chief Masood Azhar, his brothers Abdul Rauf Asghar and Ammar Alvi, slain JeM terrorist Mohammad Umar Farooq, who is son of IC 814 hijacking conspirator Ibrahim Athar suicide bomber Adil Ahmed Dar and other te
Exposing the truth of farmers’ unions behind the agitation (IANS Investigation, Part I)
By IANS| Published: 12th December 2020 7:05 am IST
New Delhi, Dec 11 : Is it farmers’ unions’ movement or vested interests? This is the burning question haunting the country as the farmers’ unions are raising issues which do not even concern the farm laws.
The agitations are also being politicised by the Left wing groups to demand the release of people who have been arrested for inciting anti-national activities across India.
The Bhartiya Kisan Union (Ekta Ugrahan) is the largest faction of the Bhartiya Kisan Union and almost two-thirds of the protesters gathered at Delhi’s borders are its members.