Two FIRs were also filed in connection with the attack on journalists at the ‘Hindu mahapanchayat’ gathering. scroll.in/a/1021024
#YatiNarsinghanand is already an accused person in a hate speech case against Muslims. He was arrested and released on bail after spending weeks in custody. scroll.in/a/1021024
#HinduMahapanchayat | No permission was granted for the event but the organiser, a man identified as Preet Singh, still went ahead with it, deputy Commissioner of Police Usha Rangnani said scroll.in/a/1021024
The police have also booked Singh.
#HinduMahapanchayat | Four of the five journalists who were escorted away by the police were Muslims and were targeted allegedly after being asked their religious identity.
The first FIR was first based on a complaint filed by a Newslaundry journalist scroll.in/latest/1021024/
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Opposition leaders raised concerns about the protection of the data that will be collected scroll.in/latest/1021115
Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that the Bill is meant to ensure that police and investigators are two steps ahead of criminals.
“We have no intention of misusing the provisions of the Bill,” Shah said while replying to a debate on the Bill. scroll.in/latest/1021115
The [Criminal Procedure] Bill paves the way for India to become a surveillance state, Congress leader Manish Tewari said.
“It [the Bill] is also against the widely accepted dictum that everyone should be treated innocent unless proven guilty,” he said scroll.in/latest/1021115
Warming up to #Russia may help as growth forecasts have been cut and #FuelPrices are rising but could sabotage the tightrope New Delhi is walking with the West. scroll.in/article/1021012
The expectation is that the Reserve Bank will now lower its GDP growth to 7.5% from 7.8%. If it does not, it would be both shocking and divorced from data. I do not think the central bank governor will choose to be that sanguine, @MitaliLive writes
Critics often complain that the Centre only increases and never reduces domestic prices based on international prices.
For instance, while Int'l oil prices plummeted during the pandemic, oil prices in India remained the same as the govt increased excise. scroll.in/article/1020972
The BJP and its supporters have attempted to manage the political fallout of this steep rise by offering a host of excuses for why #FuelPrices are shooting up.
#BhaskarRao was the Bengaluru police commissioner from August 2019. Previously, he had served as the additional director general of police for a little over five years.
Delhi Police today filed a case against a journalist and a news portal for their tweets about the targeting of seven journalists at a Hindutva event in the Capital.
The case was filed against Meer Faisal and news website Article 14. scroll.in/a/1021073
Faisal was among the journalists who were assaulted at the event on Sunday. A journalist who was covering the event for Article 14, Arbab Ali, was among three reporters who were verbally abused there.