Will right Partition wrongs, says Narendra Modi
Addressing a Vijay Sankalp Samavesh rally at Kalinagar in Silchar in southern Assam, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the Centre was working hard to clear the Bill for safeguarding “all who had been victims of Partition”.
Ground Zero | Telangana’s ‘villages of widows’
In the 1970s, hundreds of women from Mahbubnagar’s villages lost their husbands to silicosis, an occupational hazard that could have been prevented if safety protocols had been followed. Even after four decades, justice and compensation remain a distant dream for the affected families, reports K. Venkateshwarlu
Sabarimala protests: Violence abates, but disquiet remains
The Kerala Police on Friday claimed that they had stopped the escalation of Sabarimala-related hartal violence. However, they admitted that there were still some hotspots of disquiet in Thiruvananthapuram, Pathanamthitta, Kannur, Kozhikode, Palakkad and Kasaragod districts.
Live: Australia vs India fourth Test scorecard
Marcus Harris struck a fine half-century as Australia reached 122 for one at lunch on day three of the fourth Test against India here on Saturday.
On day one, Cheteshwar Pujara scored his 18th Test hundred, while Rishabh Pant scored his second Test century on day two as India had declared at 622 for seven in their first innings.
BJD to maintain equidistance from BJP and Mahagathbandhan
The Biju Janata Dal will maintain its neutrality in the run-up to the Lok Sabha election, aligning with neither the ruling NDA nor any Opposition alliance, party leaders reiterated on Friday, even while announcing a farmers’ protest in the capital to demand more minimum support prices for paddy.
J&K separatists warn youth against Islamic State
Kashmir’s top separatist leaders, including Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik, in a joint address at Srinagar’s Jamia Masjid on January 4 asked youth “not to get swayed by the Islamic State ideology”.
Telcos fined ₹58 lakh for call drops
inancial disincentives of about ₹58 lakh were imposed on telecom companies, including Idea and BSNL, for not complying with the benchmark to measure drop call rate.
Artistes, actors, scholars, poets being stifled: Naseeruddin Shah
Walls of hatred are being erected in the name of religion in India and those who stand against this “injustice” are being punished, actor Naseeruddin Shah said in a video released on Friday by Amnesty India against alleged government “crackdown” on NGOs.
‘Precarious family milieu forces children to homes’
Most children at childcare institutions are not orphans, but belong to family structures that are unable to look after them such as those that are headed by unwed mothers, abandoned wives, widows and in some cases single fathers, shows a pan-India study conducted under this aegis of the Women and Child Development Ministry.
Open defecation continues unabated
New research on the impact of the Swachh Bharat Mission in the rural parts of four northern States shows that while open defecation has fallen and toilet ownership has increased, the percentage of people who owned toilets but continued to defecate in the open has remained unchanged between 2014 and 2018.
