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Latest Update; Postpone NEET PG 2023, Nationwide Protest, Total Shutdown Of OPD Services- More Details Here – Kashmir News
Latest Update; Postpone NEET PG 2023, Nationwide Protest, Total Shutdown Of OPD Services- More Details Here – Kashmir News 
Assam Police arrests 2044 in crackdown against child marriage; faces protest by women
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Guwahati: In a massive crackdown on child marriage in Assam, the police on Friday arrested 2,044 people including Hindu and Muslim priests who conducted such weddings which, the authorities said, will be declared illegal.
As the police said they have a list of 8,000 accused and the drive will continue, women protested against the move in various districts saying they will face problems without livelihoods.
The police had registered 4,004 cases of child marriage in less than a fortnight since the state cabinet decided on January 23 to arrest offenders, besides launching an extensive awareness campaign against the menace.
“We have a list of 8,000 named accused and so far we have arrested only 2,044 people. The drive against child marriage will continue over the next three to four days and after we get all the data, a proper district-wise analysis can be done,” Director General of Police G P Singh said.
Till Friday evening, the highest number of 137 arrests have been made in Biswanath district, followed by 126 in Dhubri, 120 in Baksa, 114 in Barpeta and 96 in Kokrajhar.
Besides members of families that married off their underage children, the police arrested 51 purohits’ and kazis’ who conducted such wedding rituals in religious institutions, the DGP said.
He said the arrests were made after verification of inputs received from family members, the child welfare society, local people and the police personnel.
“We will act according to the law, conduct proper investigations and submit charge sheets,” Singh said.
The state cabinet recently decided that those having married girls below 14 years of age will be booked under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, and cases under the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006 will be registered against those who have married girls in the 14-18 years age group.
They will be arrested and the marriages will be declared illegal.
If the groom is also below 14 years of age, he will be sent to a reform house.
How many of the arrested people were minors is not yet known till the publication of the report.
Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said he has directed the police to act with a ”spirit of zero tolerance against the unpardonable and heinous crime on women”.
Meanwhile, women came out in large numbers to protest against the arrest of their husbands and sons.
“Why take only the men? How will we and or our children survive? We have no means of income,” said 55-year-old Niroda Doley of Majuli district.
Jehira Begum of Dhubri said that her 19-year-old son had brought home a girl who studied in college with him but they were not married yet.
“Her father, however, reported it to the police and now both my son and husband have been arrested,” she said.
A woman of Barpeta district, who did not wish to be named, said her son had “eloped with a minor girl. He made a mistake, but why arrest my sick husband?”
Monowara Khatoon of Morigaon said, “My daughter-in-law was 17 when she got married. Now she is 19 and five months pregnant. Who will look after her?”
Protests were also made from other quarters.
Pointing out that campaigning against child marriage is a welcome step, college student Ananya Barua said, “But it will create a lot of problems for those who are already married and have children.”
All Assam Minority Students Union (AAMSU) president Rejaul Karim Sarkar claimed they were working to end child marriage in minority-dominated areas for the last five years and had submitted several memoranda to the government but did not get any response from the authorities.
Just arresting people and asking the police to file cases will not solve the problem. All sections of the society must be involved in the campaign against child marriage so that people are convinced that it is a wrong practice, Sarkar said.
The chief minister on January 28 had said, “Thousands of husbands will be arrested in the next five-six months as it is a crime to have sexual relations with a girl below 14 years of age, even if he is her legally wed husband… Many (men who marry girls) could face life imprisonment,” Sarma said.
Assam has a high rate of maternal and infant mortality, with child marriage being the primary cause as an average of 31 per cent of marriages registered in the state are in the prohibited age, according to reports of the National Family Health Survey.
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#Assam #Police #arrests #crackdown #child #marriage #faces #protest #women( With inputs from www.siasat.com )
Protest if works undertaken in forest areas without nod of gram sabha: Soren to people
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Dumka: Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Friday asked the people to protest if any activity was undertaken in forest areas without the permission of gram sabhas, alleging that Centre was trying to exploit the state’s natural resources.
Addressing a rally at midnight in Dumka to mark the 44th foundation day of his party JMM, Soren said the Centre brought changes in the Forest (Conservation) Act so that no prior approval is required from gram sabhas for any work whether it was cutting trees or digging in scheduled areas.
“It was aimed to suppress the voices of Adivasis-Moolvasis,” he alleged.
Soren said he has already written to the Centre, informing it that the changes in the law cannot be implemented in the state.
He said the BJP developed states such as Gujarat and Maharashtra but did nothing for the development of Jharkhand when it was in power.
Alleging that the BJP was hatching a conspiracy to bring down the “Adivasi-Moolvasi government”, Soren said, “They have taken a pledge to send me to jail. However, the truth can be harassed but can not be defeated.”
“We have framed a law based on 1932 khatian to provide employment to local youths, but the governor returned it terming it flawed. A similar law was enacted by the Karnataka government and the Centre had approved it,” he added.
Soren said he will continue to fight for the policy that proposes to use the 1932 land records to determine the domicile status of people.
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#Protest #works #undertaken #forest #areas #nod #gram #sabha #Soren #people( With inputs from www.siasat.com )
Chhattisgarh: Bhim Army stages protest demanding 16pc reservation for SCs
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Raipur: Bhim Army staged a protest demanding 16 per cent reservation for the Scheduled Castes category at Budha Talab area in the state capital Raipur on Thursday.
Founder and National president of Bhim Army, Chandrashekhar Azad also participated in the protests and said that the state government should stop playing with the society, otherwise they would have to face consequences in the upcoming assembly elections in the state.
A huge number of protestors gathered and also took out a rally on the occasion. They tried to gheraoed CM’s house but the police stopped them near the Smart City. After which they submitted a memorandum to the administration.
Addressing the gathering, Azad said, “Today we have gathered here to strengthen the demand of the movement, which has been going in Raipur for the last one month. Our main demand is that when the BJP government was in power in 2008, they reduced the reservation for scheduled castes from 16 per cent to 12 per cent in the state. During the 2018 assembly election, the present Congress-led state government had promised that BJP had done injustice and if the congress government would come back in power then they would restore it.”
“It has been more than four years but still Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel has not fulfilled the promises made by him. We have come here to remind them about his promises. Today is our symbolic demonstration. We have given one month’s time to the Chief Minister, if our demand is not fulfilled, then after March 2, we will organise a big movement in Raipur by calling the people across the state. We will gheraoed the CM House. We will visit all the gram sabhas, towns and cities across the state and will expose the lies of the government among the people. We oppose whatever unconstitutional action is being taken by the government,” he added.
“People moving ahead by the reservation given by Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar should not work against the society at the behest of the government. The people of Chhattisgarh will teach them a lesson,” Azad added.
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#Chhattisgarh #Bhim #Army #stages #protest #demanding #16pc #reservation #SCs( With inputs from www.siasat.com )
Cong calls protest on Feb 6 over Hindenburg report on Adani
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New Delhi: The Congress party has decided to hold nationwide district level protests on Monday, February 6, in front of the Life Insurance Corporation office and the State Bank of India office here over the Hindenburg report.
“The government can’t jeopardize the hard earned money of the people of India to profit the crony friends of the Prime Minister.” said KC Venugopal, party general secretary.
He said the LIC has invested Rs 36,474.78 crore in the Adani Group whereas Indian banks together have invested nearly Rs 80,000 crore in the group. They continue to do so even when there are allegations of stock manipulation, accounting fraud and other malfeasance.
The group has lost $100 billion since the Hindenberg report came out.
All the Pradesh Congress Committees have been requested to issue the necessary instructions to the District Congress Committees so that apart from senior leaders, party functionaries and workers, mobilisation from the BCC, Panchayat and Booth level is ensured in full measure.
The Congress is also demanding a JPC probe or an enquiry under the supervision of the Chief Justice of India into the Adani saga, involving hundreds of thousands of crores of public money.
He said that amidst the all round gloom due to unprecedented unemployment, uncontrolled inflation and economic distress, the Modi government was expected to present a budget which addressed these urgent concerns of the people.
“Sadly, the characteristically insensitive and callous government, rather than acting to safeguard the people’s interest and stop the squandering and loot of public money, is still single mindedly bent on helping PM Modi’s friends, blatantly throwing all caution and prudence to the winds,” he said.
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#Cong #calls #protest #Feb #Hindenburg #report #Adani( With inputs from www.siasat.com )
Protest against anti-encroachment drive in Jammu locality continues
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Jammu: Thousands of people, including women and children, hit the streets in Sunjwan-Bathindi on the city’s outskirts against the Jammu and Kashmir administration’s ongoing anti-encroachment drive to retrieve “illegally occupied” state land.
The residents’ protest comes in the backdrop of the authorities serving public notices asking violators to remove illegal constructions within seven days, officials said.
The protesters also observed a complete shutdown in the area.
Waving Tricolours and shouting slogans against the eviction drive, the protesters passed the main roads before staging a peaceful sit-in at a vast land adjoining the bypass.
Police were deployed in large numbers as a precautionary measure to maintain law and order.
The sub-divisional magistrate was seen requesting the protesters to disperse on the assurance that no residential homes would be demolished. He added that the district administration was ready to listen to their grievances.
Representatives of almost all major political parties, including the National Conference, Congress, People’s Democratic Party, Apni Party and the AAP, also joined the protest and demanded an immediate end to the “anti-people” drive.
The residents also staged a protest in the area on January 30 and had threatened to intensify their agitation if the government went ahead with the demolition drive.
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#Protest #antiencroachment #drive #Jammu #locality #continues( With inputs from www.siasat.com )
Telangana: Police arrests ex-IAS officer Akunuri Murali over protest
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Former IAS officer Akunuri Murali Hyderabad: Two persons, including a former IAS officer, were arrested by the police on Tuesday for protesting the allotment of double-bedroom houses to the poor.
Akunuri Murali who is also the convenor of the Social Democratic Forum (SDF), along with the forum’s co-convenor Dr Prudhviraj were arrested from Ambedkar Colony in Hanamkonda district.
The protest happened on Monday in Bhupalpally town. In a statement, the SDF said, “A total of 540 two-bedroom houses were constructed five years ago. So far not a single house has been allotted to the poor.”
Following the incident, Bhupalpally collector Bhavesh Mishra sent the local tahsildar Md. Iqbal to talk to Murali in the police station. The protest was later called off when the collector promised house allotment will be done by February 4.
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#Telangana #Police #arrests #exIAS #officer #Akunuri #Murali #protest( With inputs from www.siasat.com )
Diaspora groups in UK protest against BBC over controversial documentary
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London: Hundreds representing different Indian diaspora organisations gathered outside the BBC headquarters in central London on Sunday to protest against what they branded as “fake news” behind the broadcaster’s controversial series on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The “Chalo BBC” protests were coordinated across BBC studios in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow and Newcastle and brought together groups such as Indian Diaspora UK (IDUK), Friends of India Society International (FISI) UK, Insight UK and Hindu Forum of Britain (HFB), among others.
The protesters waved placards reading “Boycott BBC”, “British Bias Corporation” and “Stop the Hinduphobic Narrative”, and chanted slogans such as “Shame on BBC” and “Bharat Mata Ki Jai”.
“The documentary on Prime Minister Modi was very biased given that he was completely cleared by the Indian judiciary, and yet the BBC decides to become judge and jury,” said Jayu Shah from FISI UK, among the protesters in London.
“The BBC needs to be investigated internationally and the directors of the board of the BBC should be investigated for failing in their duty as a public broadcaster,” he said.
Another protester said she had come with her wheelchair-bound mother because they felt strongly against the “false and anti-India propaganda” they felt was being spread by the British broadcaster.
The two-part BBC documentary, which claims it investigated certain aspects relating to the 2002 Gujarat riots when Prime Minister Modi was the CM of that state, has been trashed by the Ministry of External Affairs as a “propaganda piece” that lacked objectivity and reflected a “colonial mindset”.
The BBC has defended the programme as “rigorously researched according to the highest editorial standards”.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has defended Prime Minister Modi over the BBC documentary, asserting that he “didn’t agree with the characterisation” of his Indian counterpart.
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#Diaspora #groups #protest #BBC #controversial #documentary( With inputs from www.siasat.com )
Thousands of Israelis protest against Netanyahu government
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Thousands of Israelis protested in several cities against the new government headed by Benjamin Netanyahu, on Saturday, January 28, 2023, for the fourth week in a row, Anadolu Agency reported.
The protests against the Netanyahu government, held in the several cities including— Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa and Beersheba.
According to Israeli Broadcasting Corporation (IBC), about 40,000 demonstrators participated in Kaplan Street and Habima Square in Tel Aviv, while about 13,000 people demonstrated in Haifa.
Hundreds participated in front of the Israeli President’s house in Jerusalem, and thousands participated in a demonstration in front of the municipal building in Herzliy.
The protestors held the Netanyahu government responsible for the recent operations against the Israelis.
Tel Aviv police were on high alert for fear of a possible attack on the protestors who had gathered in the thousands. The protestors demanded Netanyahu’s resignation because of his prosecution in corruption cases.
Saturday’s protests is the fourth in a row that the Israeli opposition organizes on a weekly basis, in protest against the judicial reform plan presented by Yariv Levin, Minister of Justice in Netanyahu’s government, earlier this month.
The plan includes government control of the Judge Appointment Committee, and an unprecedented reduction in the powers of the Supreme Court.
As per media reports, the opposition describes the plan as a judicial coup and says it represents the beginning of the end for Israeli democracy, which Netanyahu denies and says it comes to restoring balance between the three authorities in his entity.
The newly formed coalition government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was sworn in at the Knesset on Thursday, December 29, 2022.
Tensions escalated after Jenin camp stormed
Israeli media announced, on Saturday, January 28, 2023, that two settlers were seriously injured, in a shooting in the Silwan neighborhood of Jerusalem.
This comes hours after eight people were killed, including the perpetrator of the attack, Khairy Alqam, in Jerusalem, and at least 6 others were wounded in a shooting in front of a Jewish synagogue, in Jerusalem, on Friday evening, January 27.
At least nine Palestinians, including an elderly woman, were killed in an Israeli raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on Thursday morning.
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#Thousands #Israelis #protest #Netanyahu #government( With inputs from www.siasat.com )
