Senior journalist Sreenivasan Jain expresses shock after witnessing a woman journalist being detained by Delhi Police while covering protests in the national capital.
Speaking to DeKoder, Jain says the reporter had identified herself, was carrying her press credentials and was visibly equipped with a microphone. Despite repeated objections from Jain and other journalists present, he says police took her away.
Jain alleges that the detention happened under the supervision of a senior IPS officer and calls the incident “appalling.”
The incident comes hours after the Supreme Court's October 11 hearing, during which the Court recorded an assurance that journalists, lawyers and other professionals would not be obstructed in performing their duties.
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Jantar Mantar might be a fortress, but impromptu sit-ins are erupting elsewhere.
Here, protestors face off with the police on Delhi's Safdarjung flyover as they try and block a bus with their detained comrades.
Yesterday, rainwater jammed the Nayandahalli flyover. A citizen, Shivakumar (Insta: @vishvitha51), climbed into the clogged drain, cleared the filth himself, and got traffic moving.
This is not Brand Bengaluru. It is Garbage Bengaluru. GBA and the state government should be ashamed that residents are doing the job they are paid to do.
HEARTBROKEN: a phenomenal actor but most importantly a dear friend, Nana Patekar is no more. Passed away in Goa short while ago. Spoke to him only yesterday. His last words to me: Kaalji Ghe Raja (take care Raja). Will miss you Nana sir on and off screen . You were always there for me, through good times and bad. Om Shanti 🙏🙏🙏
I have been associated with elections right from the nineteen seventies. From Seshan onwards I have known many CECs and ECs well.
I have deliberately kept away from the ECI controversy because almost everything said about it is immediately labelled political and biased. But it has now reached a point where silence seems equally wrong.
Forget for a moment who is accusing whom. All that matters is that the Supreme Court wants to know how certain decisions were taken and who took them. There should be a record—files, notings, minutes, electronic trails. If something that should exist cannot be produced, that too will have to be explained.
What troubles me most is the damage already done. The ECI once carried enormous credibility, including abroad. So did India for conducting elections on an extraordinary scale with an Election Commission trusted to be independent.
Whatever the eventual explanation, that reputation has taken a knock. It took decades to build. I hope we understand what is at stake.
Rs 8 lakh bribe to construct building in GHMC limits
Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) arrested Tulasirarn Sunitha, the Town Planning Supervisor at GHMC's Golconda Zone in Mehdipatnam, on October 5. She was caught taking a bribe of Rs 4 lakh out of a total demand of Rs 8 lakh from a complainant.
In return, she agreed to ignore official orders, let the complainant keep building, not cause further problems, and help in the future.
The ACB found the Rs 4 lakh bribe with her and also seized Rs 2.5 lakh in extra cash.
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Rs 8 lakh bribe to construct building in GHMC limits
Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) arrested Tulasirarn Sunitha, the Town Planning Supervisor at GHMC's Golconda Zone in Mehdipatnam, on October 5. She was caught taking a bribe of Rs 4 lakh out of a total demand of Rs 8 lakh from a complainant.
In return, she agreed to ignore official orders, let the complainant keep building, not cause further problems, and help in the future.
The ACB found the Rs 4 lakh bribe with her and also seized Rs 2.5 lakh in extra cash.
#TelanganaACB #TelanganaACBnews #Golcondanews #GHMCcorruption #GHMCnews
Honestly, when I was your age, I didn’t have half the courage and resolve that you have displayed.
Walking with you gives us strength and hope!
You are a star @neha_aisa
Not even six days since the road was laid and the GHMC and Water Board work crews have arrived to dig it in Hyderabad in Srinagar Colony. Why shouldn’t we demand sacking of the top officials of these departments.
வாகனங்களுக்கு குனிந்து குனிந்து காற்று பிடிக்கும் போது முதுகு வலி வராமல் இருப்பதற்காக ஒரு பெட்ரோல் பங்க் ஓனர் இந்த ஐடியாவை செய்திருக்கிறார்
இதை ஏன் மற்ற பெட்ரோல் பங்குகளும் பின்பற்றக் கூடாது..?
What manner of festival are we celebrating where 13 people died.
Loud DJ's with filmi music, youth dancing on moving trucks. POP painted idols immersed in water bodies.
As a society we need to introspect if this is godly...
Cashless health insurance is legally sanctioned house arrest.
The doctor officially discharges you at 9 AM. You are fully recovered, your bags are packed and your family is ready to take you home.
Then the hospital administration steps in: "Sir, the insurance TPA approval is pending. Please remain seated in your room until we receive the final payment."
You then spend the next 8 to 12 hours held hostage in a ₹15,000-a-day hospital room.
You are no longer a patient but you are collateral. The hospital doesn't trust the insurance company to actually pay, the insurer is deliberately stalling to find a typo in your medical history to reject the claim and you are stuck in the middle of a corporate standoff.
We live in a country where UPI settles transactions in 300 milliseconds and automated trading algorithms move crores in a microsecond.
The system is designed to exhaust you. They want you so frustrated and desperate to go home that the next time you get sick, you just pay the cash upfront and file for a reimbursement which they will conveniently reject 45 days later citing "insufficient documentation."
If my policy is active and the hospital is in-network, the final discharge should be an instant and automated API settlement. Man I paid insurance company for this service.
Until we force insurers to adopt automated clearing, stop calling it a cashless facility.
Call it what it actually is: an extortion racket with a waiting room.
Illegal bike taxis like Rapido, Ola, and Uber are affecting our livelihood, say independent auto drivers.
I haven't seen a single auto driver driver use a meter in the last 12 years. If anything is illegal, it’s these guys way of operating.
In 1986 a young forest officer did something nobody else ever managed.
He arrested Veerappan.
Veerappan escaped. 5 years later he sent the officer a message. He said he was ready to surrender, but only to him, and only if he came alone and unarmed.
He went.
His name was Pandillapalli Srinivas.
He was an officer of the Indian Forest Service in Karnataka, posted in the forests on the border with Tamil Nadu. Those forests belonged, in practice, to one man.
Veerappan was wanted for killing about 200 elephants for their ivory and smuggling around 10,000 tonnes of sandalwood. He had killed forest officers and policemen. The villages around the forest protected him, some out of fear and some because nobody from the government had ever done anything for them.
Srinivas decided that was the real problem.
So instead of only hunting Veerappan, he went into the villages. He built roads. He brought drinking water to tribal settlements. He started a mobile dispensary. He built more than 40 houses for homeless families, paying for them out of his own salary. He talked more than 100 of Veerappan's men into giving up and coming back to ordinary life.
He built a temple in Gopinatham, Veerappan's own village.
He was the first officer those villagers had ever trusted.
On 9th November 1991 a wireless message reached him. Veerappan wanted to surrender. The condition was that Srinivas must come personally, without guards, without a weapon, with a few villagers Veerappan had named.
Other officers warned him not to go. Veerappan's own brother had come to him, told him Veerappan had given up his gun, and convinced him it was real.
Srinivas believed people could change. He had watched more than 100 of them do it.
The next morning, 10th November 1991, he walked into the forest near Gopinatham.
He was shot. Then his head was cut off. It was never found.
He was 37.
In January 1992 India gave him the Kirti Chakra, the second highest award for bravery in peacetime. His mother went to receive it.
Veerappan was finally killed by the police in 2004, 13 years later.
The villagers of Gopinatham still pray every day at the temple Srinivas built for them. The forest department restored the jeep he used to drive, and keeps it in a museum at Kollegal.
He tried to end Veerappan's power by giving the people around him a reason to trust someone else.
Veerappan understood that was more dangerous to him than any gun.