The environment ministry has made an alarming change to the Forest Conservation Rules. It has rid itself of responsibility: its responsibility to ensure forest dwellers' rights are recognised before their forests are chopped down. Here's why you should care: #Thread
After 6 yrs on death row, Momin, Jaikam & Sajid will soon walk free.
Disagreeing with the Bulandshahr court & the Allahabad HC, the Sup Ct today held the 3 men not guilty of murdering 6 family members.
@P39A_nlud briefed Sr Adv Nitya Ramakrishnan & D Seshadri Naidu in the matter.
#Justin The SC has commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment simpliciter (first among the four recent commutations) in Lochan Shrivas v Chhattisgarh.
Relying on the mitigation affidavits, the Court noted that he made consistent efforts to bring his family out of poverty.
📢 We now have NFHS-5 survey data for all 131 health indicators of India at State level in a single CSV file.
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Update at 1 am: After powerful dharna at @KhandwaSp office by around #300adivasis, half of them women, all abducted persons including 8 adivasis & Nitin who were in illegal custody of Forest Dept since morning have been released. The Forest Dept must still be held accountable.
11:14 PM Scores of Adivasis wait outside the SP office for their comrades to be released. If there is ANY mischief on the part of the police / forest officials, we are ready for a Jail Bharo Andolan. The truth is on our side. We are not afraid.
THE FOREST DEPARTMENT DESTROYED HOUSES OF ADIVASIS, DESTROYED THEIR FIELDS WHICH THEY HAVE OWNED FOR GENERATIONS, ASSAULTED ACTIVISTS AND DETAINED A 12 YEAR OLD GIRL!!
84-year-old Jesuit Father #StanSwamy has passed away. Let us not talk about this as mere death. This is a judicial murder--and everyone is complicit: NIA, Modi- Shah, the judiciary that never saw the nonsense-upon-stilts which was Bhima Koregaon case, jails, ruling class & media
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Lakhs of prisoners continue to languish in overcrowded prisons across the country living under the threat of COVID. A significant portion of them are undertrials ie those whose guilt remains unestablished.
Unsurprisingly, these primarily include SC, ST, OBCs and Muslims
#Thread I live in an open space in a Delhi neighbourhood, and for the past few days it’s been particularly windy, smoky. But I’ve started to notice black stains, ash on the clothes I put out to dry. I didn’t know where it was coming from until...
#Vaccines, PM Cares, Taxpayers' money, Steel cos.
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The central govt vaccine isn't 'free'. We're paying ₹150 per dose from taxpayers' money. State govts and individuals will be paying ₹500 on average per dose. Assuming all 130 crore people 1/n
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Mobilisation of #COVIDVaccine beneficiaries is vital to ensure reduction of wastage of COVID vaccines but vaccine hesitancy leading to wastage, say officials and experts. India is reported to have wasted 4.4 mn doses until April 11 https://t.co/MccauPODwf
A thread in response to different views expressed against my tweets and articles on Covid #vaccines. Many were abuses; I ignore them. I try to take the reasonable questions and try to answer them here. One question and one answer in each tweet below. Its a long thread, btw! 1/n
New forensic evidence from US agency shows how devices of #BhimaKoregaon accused #RonaWilson were hacked & 22 files—key evidence as per the State—were planted: @shreegireesh. 16 accused including #SudhaBharadwaj, #StanSwamy, held w/o bail, trial.
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