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CORONA CASES – THE SARKARI NUMBERS THAT WILL SHOCK YOU
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How India Is Counting Its Corona Positive Cases? TWO MONTHS FROM NOW, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hoist the Tricolor from the Red Fort and address the nation on Independence Day, August 15, India will have 18.5 lakh coronavirus positive cases every day. Yes, EVERY ...
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AFTER A VIDEO of the little toddler trying to wake up his dead mother shocked India, after people wondered for days why our trains were routinely taking detours of days and hundreds of kilometres, after viral videos of migrants foraging, begging, looting food packets underlined ...
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17.05.20 - Markandey Katju
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On Sunday a new government was formed in Israel called an emergency unity government, in which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling party and Opposition leader Benny Gantz’s opposition party will both be members, Netanyahu being PM for the first 18 months, and Gantz being PM ...
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07.05.20 - Markandey Katju
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The Indian media has shown on TV screens and on the internet streams of lacs of migrant workers in Indian towns heading home to their villages on foot, walking hundreds of kilometers, some dying on the way, during the nationwide lockdown declared by the Prime ...
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03.05.20 - Markandey Katju
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Today, 3rd May, is World Press Freedom Day, as declared by the United Nations.
In this connection I wish to present my views.
 Votaries of media freedom often treat media freedom as a fetish, as an end in itself. In my opinion media freedom can at most ...
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Amid Corona scare, Indian media races for TRP
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23.04.20 - Chanchal Manohar Singh
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Even when the entire world is in chaos over the spread of deadly Corona virus, the media in India is bracing up its race for ratings (TRP), exhibiting sheer insensitivities. Under the garb of political ideology, the media in India is still pursuing ‘ad hominem’ ...
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21.04.20 - Markandey Katju
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India is in a nationwide lockdown because of the corona virus scare since 25th March, and it is time now to take a second look at the situation.
Is corona such a danger that it deserved a nationwide lockdown? I submit it is not, and the ...
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14.04.20 - Swati Chaturvedi
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The Prime Minister has the most powerful pulpit in India especially during the world's largest lockdown.
In a long, rather self-congratulatory speech, Narendra Modi announced that the lockdown stands extended till May 3 though he said a review on April 20 could lead to some give ...
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Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Saturday recommended extension of the national lockdown by at least a fortnight, while suggesting a slew of health and relief measures to the people in the state’s COVID-19 battle, in addition to special concessions for industry and ...
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"FIVE CONCRETE SUGGESTIONS"
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Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggesting five measures to conserve money for the fight against coronavirus, including a ban on media advertisements by government and PSUs for two years and suspending the Central Vista beautification project.
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PM MODI'S 9-MINUTE CHALLENGE
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04.04.20 - Prince Mathews Thomas
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That's the question that engineers in India's power sector are now grappling with, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi called upon the nation to do so, in solidarity amidst the COVID-19 crisis.
"It's like suddenly putting a brake of a car in motion, or suddenly pushing the ...
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The battle against coronavirus is a tough one and it required harsh decisions to keep India safe, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his first Mann Ki Baat after the 21-day lockdown was imposed in the wake of COVID-19 outbreak.
"The battle against COVID-19 is a ...
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NPR-NRC-CAA protests at Bilal Bagh, Bengaluru & the spectre of COVID-19.
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20.03.20 - AMANDEEP SANDHU
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The spectre of the Corona virus epidemic is a major challenge to the last 90+ days long Muslim women led protests against the Central government’s intention to implement the NPR and NRC and CAA on a nationwide scale. By early March, according to a Ministry ...
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Dubbing as "wrong and questionable” the nomination of former Chief Justice of India, Ranjan Gogoi, to the Rajya Sabha, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday said it clearly indicated that he had been useful to the current government at the Centre.
Gogoi’s nomination has ...
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With the new citizenship law and the proposed NRC sparking protests across the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said in December that the government had not held any discussions on a pan-India NRC.
 But now, in its first legal response before the Supreme Court on ...
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PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH!
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IF ANYONE THOUGHT the government or the ruling party politicians or those in the opposition, or our religious leaders, were at all concerned about the health of the citizens, or even about their life, just watch what they did in the last 48 hours.
 At a ...
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Reacting sharply to the acceptance of Rajya Sabha seat by former Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, former Judge of Supreme Court Justice Kurian Joseph said;
"We have discharged our debt to the nation" was the statement made by Justice Ranjan Gogoi along with the three of us ...
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Akali patriarch and five times Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal today welcomed the release of senior Kashmiri leader Farooq Abdullah and expressed the hope that this would be just the beginning of the process of release of other democratic leaders too
In a statement here, Badal ...
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Expelled BJP MLA Kuldeep Sengar has been sentenced to ten years in jail and fined Rs 10 lakh in connection with the death of the Unnao rape victim's father. While sentencing them, District Judge Dharmesh Sharma said, "There can be no denying that rule of ...
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LET US HEAL OUR DILLI - Civil Society Activists Draw A Road Map
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A GROUP OF inspired civil society activists and academicians visited the riot-hit areas/mohallas of Delhi, including Bhajanpura, Chand Bagh, Gokulpuri, Chaman Park, Shiv Vihar, Main Mustafabad (including Bhagirathi Vihar, Brijpuri) to get a sense of the human suffering and the damage that the social fabric ...
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