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Indian Journalists Are Being Targeted for Questioning Governments’ Handling of the Pandemic, Vice

Vice 19 June 2020 The country’s media persons are facing criminal charges and intimidation for exposing lack of transparency around the crisis. On June 13, a journalist was charged with various offences by the police of the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) for a story filed from within Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s parliamentary […]

Chakmas, Hajongs starving in Arunachal, says rights body, The Hindu

The Hindu27 April 2020 ‘Their ration cards were seized in 1991’ A Delhi-based rights body has sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s intervention in ensuring food for the Chakma and Hajong communities in Arunachal Pradesh who have allegedly not been included in the government’s economic package. The Chakmas and Hajongs, displaced in the 1960s by violence […]

‘Singapore Syndrome’ in India’s dormitories causing spurt of COVID-19 cases: Rights body

The New Indian ExpressPublished on 01 June 2020 Singapore Syndrome is all about faster spread of COVID-19 cases where maintaining social distancing is impossible like the cramped dormitories housing the foreign migrant workers. GUWAHATI: A rights body on Monday claimed that at least 251 migrant workers had died while trying to return home during the […]