Central India
‘Hany Babu’s arrest is arbitrary.’ 36 organisations demand release of arrested DU professor
Condemning the arbitrary arrest of Delhi University Professor Hany Babu today by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in Mumbai, Campaign Against State Repression (CASR), a collective with over 36 organisations, has issued a public statement demanding arrested Professor's release.
Central India
NIA arrests Delhi University professor Hany Babu in Bhima Koregaon case
The National Investigation Agency inquiring into the Bhima Koregaon case in Maharashtra has arrested Delhi University professor Hany Babu on Tuesday.
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Central India
RSS workers chant Jai Sri Ram outside activist Saket Gokhale’s house, threaten his mother
Right To Information (RTI) activist and former journalist Saket Gokhale said Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) workers chanted ‘Jai Sri Ram’ outside his residence in Thane, and even threatened his mother on Friday.
Central India
Shift Saibaba to hospital, disability rights group writes to NHRC
Disability rights NGO National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled (NPRD) has sought the National Human Rights Commission's intervention to shift professor G.N. Saibaba, a wheelchair user lodged in the Nagpur central jail, to a medical facility for treatment.
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Central India
Admit Varavara Rao to private hospital, NHRC orders to Maharashtra govt
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has ordered jailed 80-year-old poet Varavara Rao who contracted Covid-19 in prison be moved to a private facility for treatment after his family said he was being neglected
Central India
Jailed poet Varavara Rao tests positive for COVID-19
Jailed poet-activist Varavara Rao has tested positive for Covid-19, said a hospital official on Thursday.
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Central India
MP Police brutality on Dalit family: BJP Govt faces flak, removes Collector, SP
A Dalit couple who allegedly attempted suicide in front of their children and police officers on seeing a JCB machine crush their standing crop was brutally assaulted by the policemen in Madhya Pradesh's Jagatpur Chak area of Guna district on Tuesday.
Central India
NHRC Covid-19 experts committee demands to release Rao on Parole
The members of the recently constituted Committee of Experts to assess the Impact of C0VID-I9 pandemic on human rights by National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) have raised their concerns to H. L. Dattu, Chairman of NHRC about the health status of Varavara Rao, a renowned poet, writer who has been kept in Taloja jail for the last 22 months.
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Central India
Don’t kill Varavara Rao in jail, wife and daughters of 79 year old poet urge
Wife and daughters of Telugu poet and activist Pendyala Varavara Rao, who is currently in Navi Mumbai’s Taloja jail in the Bhima Koregaon case, told media his life is in danger and appealed the Centre and the Maharashtra government to provide him with immediate medical care.
Central India
Amitabh Bachchan tests positive for coronavirus, hospitalised
Actor Amitabh Bachchan tested positive for covid-19 on Saturday evening and was admitted to Nanavati Hospital in Mumbai. He confirmed the same in a tweet.
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Central India
Navi Mumbai: COVID-19 patient kept in ambulance for one day for want of bed, dies
Family of a 64-year-old man who died due to coronavirus infection in Navi Mumbai has said that he had to be kept in an ambulance for a whole day before he could be admitted to a hospital, PTI reported.
Central India
14 MPs write to Uddhav Thackeray raising concern at deteriorating health of Varavara Rao
In a letter to Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray, more than ten parliamentarians have registered their grave concern at the deteriorating health of the 81-year-old people's poet Varavara Rao, now lodged in Taloja Jail under the Bhima Koregaon case.
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