North India

Bijender, aka Bobby aged 47 lost his life doing a doleful job of cleaning the sewers in Narela in Delhi on Friday (19 March, 2021); who had been in the profession for almost 10 years. He was the lone bread earner in his family and an only parent to his three minor daughters; after the death of his wife, approximately five years ago.

Rakesh Tikait, one of the faces of ongoing farmers’ agitation against Narendra Modi government’s new farm laws, has demanded that all protesters who have been camping at the borders of the capital should be vaccinated.

Delhi High Court to hear regular bail plea of Shahrukh Pathan on 18 March, a Muslim youth and resident of northeast Delhi whose picture showing him pointing a gun at an unarmed Delhi Police Head Constable during the anti-Muslim pogrom in northeast Delhi, went viral on social media.

The Uttar Pradesh court in Mathura on Tuesday rejected the bail plea of Campus Front of India (CFI) national secretary Rauf Shareef, who has been arrested by UP Police in connection with a case of funding and stirring up protests after the rape and murder of the Dalit woman by upper-caste Hindu men in Hathras.

The Popular Front of India national committee has strongly condemned the arrest of Rashid Ahmed, a member of the organisation by the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) on Sunday.

The Birsa Ambedkar Phule Students' Association (BAPSA) in Jawaharlal Nehru University has alleged that its president Omprakash Mahato and members were attacked by Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) activists inside the campus on Sunday.

On 5 March, research scholar, Natasha Narwal from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi turned 32. Narwal spent the day behind bars in the capital city of Delhi.

A Delhi court on Wednesday passed an interim order staying the operation of search warrants against lawyer Mehmood Pracha in connection with the alleged use of forged documents in judicial records in a Northeast Delhi pogrom case.

Punjab legislators on Tuesday condemned Enforcement Directorate raids on the premises of rebel Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA and former Leader of the Opposition of Punjab Assembly, Sukhpal Singh Khaira.

Apprehending threat to life, the woman whose father was shot dead in Hathras in Uttar Pradesh by a man accused of molesting her, demanded a license to purchase and keep a gun.

Their new classroom is The Kisan School, started by The Kisan Social Army in February, 2021. It aims to educate the children from a nearby slum. The Kisan School is a 15X15 tent erected by the protesting farmers at Tikri border. The flaps of the tent were decorated with colourful displays and charts that read alphabets and numbers. A few girls in the corner completed their homework while boys in the front revised the previous day’s classwork. One thing was in common- their bright smiles and will to learn.

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