Lawyer/ Independent Journalist. LSE 24-25 #CheveningScholar 24-25 , Laadli 2022 and 24, QoC-CANSA Climate Fellow 2023. Views are Personal.
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Extreme police brutality against Ambedkarites who were demanding justice for Sahil. Many activists, including @Sonpimplerahul , @deepali_writes and others, have been detained.
ही काय पद्धत आहे @MumbaiPolice @PawaiPolice
अश्या प्रकारे वागणूक कोण देत
ते सर्व विद्यार्थी आहेत.
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In drought-hit Maharashtra, thousands working under VB-G RAM G scheme - on paper
On ground, @tabassum_b found no workers at five sites in Beed. Those named on the muster roll were not aware of work orders issued against their names. Nor did they know where their wages were being credited.
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Shifted out of Mumbai last week. Gradually realised the city will be in a perpetual state of construction since that's how contractors and in turn ministers will make money. So there'll always be that next project, next renovation to make your life tough. And if nothing else, they'll break an existing one completed just few years ago to make something bigger. Living in Mumbai constantly felt like life in hard mode. And with a baby in picture, wanted to have a little bit of greenery and space around. And eventually schools with space.
Used to love the city when I came 9 years back from Delhi. But something shifted some years back, specially post lockdown. Incidentally I think Mumbai was good to live as long as 'Dilli se aaya hai kya?' used to be an insult. Now let's see..
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UPDATE: @Prafulla1951 says Dr Randall Sequeira, Laxman Naik being held in Rayagada jail. The community physician is being detained under charges, inc 'attempt to murder'.
"(Police) want to harass, because he’s moving in the area, documenting the movement” vs Vedanta, Adani.
At 10:30 pm last night, reports that @odisha_police detained Dr Randall Sequeira, doctor to Adivasi communities, and Laxman Naik, leader of affected villages opposing @Vedanta_Group’s mining in Niyamgiri and Sijimali. Their whereabouts are still unknown, no access to a lawyer.
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The fact is not that Tiger shroff was just attacked, The fact is that he could’ve literally died, Son of a famous bollywood actor Jackie shroff and he was saved just by a few inches and because one if ghe guy’s pistol got jammed. BJP has sent Mumbai and Maharashtra back to 1990s time.
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Everything is so exhaustingly brazen. Give EC immunity. Delete CCTV footage. Make voters run around. Stack the courts & newsrooms with yes men. Beat everyone up for Q the process.
And act innocent.
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This is open and shut case of gross illegality! No defence for the EC here. Casts a huge shadow on Bengal elections which must be reviewed.
The ECI Software Deleted 5.38 Lakh Bengal Voters With Auto-Generated Rejections Without Citing a Reason m.thewire.in/article/rights/…
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The Election Commission Software Deleted 5.38 Lakh Bengal Voters With Auto-Generated Rejections Without Citing a Reason.
#Special @chhuti_is thewire.in/rights/the-eci-so…
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Brazil’s election is likely the most unfollowed global event. Do you like breathing oxygen? Then you should care who wins next week, bc one guy wants you to keep breathing and the other wants to burn trees
Brazil registered the lowest Amazon deforestation rate on record over the past year, allowing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to claim success on a key issue that’s been at the center of his platform bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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‘at least ONE weekly off, Rs 700 wage’
Police in Surat detains about 70 workers as they decided to march to the Collector’s office. We had reported on their demands in a detailed video about 8 days ago. Do listen: youtu.be/bIDVY1x_9JU?si=xVdv…
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Sanyal, Dreze is worth 100 of you. A far far far better economist than you, with your supplicant mediocrity, would ever be. And an infinitely better human being who’s done more for India than you or ideological forefathers have ever done.
His work was funded by Ford Foundation and McArthur Foundation. How many million years would it take to those "100 workers" to match billionaires like Henry Ford and John McArthur? Or is this calculation meant only for the non-white billionaires? Saving Indian souls - backed by western business - is a very old game.....
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At 10:30 pm last night, reports that @odisha_police detained Dr Randall Sequeira, doctor to Adivasi communities, and Laxman Naik, leader of affected villages opposing @Vedanta_Group’s mining in Niyamgiri and Sijimali. Their whereabouts are still unknown, no access to a lawyer.
NEW | Vedanta seems to be attempting to revive its stalled Niyamgiri bauxite mining project despite the Gram Sabhas’ rejection of mining in 2013, raising concerns that the Odisha government may be using the criminal justice system to weaken tribal resistance and clear the way for corporate interests. @Ayaskant_Das reports.
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Meta employees say Instagram restrictions affected Brazil President Lula’s accounts during the election. Internal messages also said the platform recommended rival Flavio Bolsonaro’s profile and WhatsApp channel.
Meta denies political interference.
🔗 aje.news/9gesof
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Imagine protesting a mine, only to discover your signature, your deceased parents’ signatures, and almost the entire village’s have allegedly been forged to manufacture consent for it.
An explosive investigation by @mhassanism !
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Anjali from AISA called me just now .. @neha_aisa was picked up by Delhi Police at Mandi House while on her way to join the ‘Lehra Do Tiranga’ protest. Taken away alone, without her phone, her whereabouts are now unknown.
@DelhiPolice What kind of law and order allows the police to detain a citizen and keep her location a secret?
Detention cannot become disappearance. Delhi Police must disclose where Neha is, ensure her access to he r family ,friends and comrades . moreover police should explain the grounds for her detention. @DelhiPolice - remember you are accountable to the law—not above it.
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WHERE IS NEHA?
Delhi Police refuses to meet a delegation of lawyers and civil society members demanding the release of Neha.
Gather NOW in large numbers at Parliament Street Police Station to demand their release!
@DelhiPolice release Neha now!
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For all practical purposes, Art. 19 rights in New Delhi have been suspended. Citizens can’t move freely, can’t protest peacefully, can’t raise slogans all because some arbitrary orders- which nobody has seen-are in place. Courts sit in silence, the hearings have yielded nothing.
