Four Reuters photographers win Pulitzer for images of India’s #COVID19 crisis
Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo, Amit Dave and the late Danish Siddiqui were named winners of the most prestigious award in journalism. #PulitzerPrize
#PulitzerPrize | #DanishSiddiqui, 38, was killed while covering a clash between Afghan security forces & Taliban fighters near a border crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan on July 16. He was covering the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan for Reuters.
The #PulitzerPrize, the most prestigious award in journalism, was awarded to the photographers for their images of the crisis that “balanced intimacy and devastation, while offering viewers a heightened sense of place”. scroll.in/a/1023584
“To have Danish’s incredible work honoured in this way is a tribute to the enduring mark he has left on the world of photojournalism,” Reuters Editor-in-Chief Alessandra Galloni said scroll.in/a/1023584
#PulitzerPrize | The body of a person, who died from #COVID19, lies on a funeral pyre during a mass cremation at a crematorium in New Delhi on May 1, 2021. Photo by: Reuters/Adnan Abidi
#PulitzerPrize | A man sits next to his wife, who was suffering from a high fever, as she intravenously receives rehydration fluid at a makeshift clinic in Parsaul village in Uttar Pradesh on May 22, 2021. scroll.in/a/1023584
A man waves a handkerchief from the back seat of his vehicle at his mother as she receives oxygen in the parking lot of a Gurudwara in Ghaziabad on April 24, 2021. scroll.in/a/1023588
A woman presses the chest of her father, who was having difficulty breathing, after he felt unconscious while receiving oxygen support at a Gurudwara in Ghaziabad on April 30, 2021. scroll.in/a/1023588
Photo by: Reuters/Adnan Abidi
The New York Times won three #PulitzerPrizes and was named as a finalist in five other categories also.
The journalists of #Ukraine were also awarded a special citation for their coverage of the #Russian invasion.
Reuters photographers Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo, Amit Dave and the late Danish Siddiqui won the #PulitzerPrize2022 for feature photography on Monday for their coverage of the coronavirus crisis in India.
The jury said that the prize was awarded to the four photographers for their images of the crisis that “balanced intimacy and devastation, while offering viewers a heightened sense of place”.
The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court today dismissed a plea seeking directions to open 20 rooms of the #TajMahal in Agra to check for the possible presence of Hindu idols or scriptures, Bar and Bench reported. scroll.in/a/1023775
“Tomorrow you will come & ask us to go to chambers of honourable judges,” the two-judge bench of Justices DK Upadhyay & Subhash Vidyarthi rebuked the petitioner. “Please, do not make a mockery of the PIL system.” scroll.in/a/1023775
#DemolitionDrive starts in Delhi’s Madanpur Khadar amid protests
Aam Aadmi Party MLA Amanatullah Khan, who rushed to the site to oppose the razing, has been detained by the Delhi police. scroll.in/a/1023760
#Delhi#DemolitionDrive | Bulldozers were seen trying to demolish a six-storey building in the area.
Labourers were seen breaking the building’s walls from the inside. scroll.in/a/1023760
#DemolitionDrive | The police warned protestors of strict action to stop demonstrations, NDTV reported. They were seen baton-charging the protestors as well. scroll.in/a/1023760
#RupeeVsDollar | On Wednesday, rupee had settled at 77.24.
After today's development, the rupee fell to a record low for the second time this week. scroll.in/a/1023752
“For Indian markets, inflation and Reserve Bank of India’s unexpected rate increase have created some kind of nervousness,” said Kranthi Bathini, director of equities strategy at WealthMills Securities, Reuters reported. scroll.in/a/1023752
#CommonGround: Tracking the [#PMKisan] scam in Assam reveals that it began with a rush to add beneficiaries at a breakneck speed ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha election.
#CommonGround: A data entry operator in Assam's Darrang district recounted that a banking correspondent made around 1,000 accounts in villagers' names, which he used to siphon off money from the [#PMKisan] scheme. scroll.in/a/1023605
“They took money and added names"
Since identify proof documents were not being scrutinised carefully, and bank accounts served as unique IDs for each beneficiary, many took the opportunity to draw up their own lists.
#Opinion: India’s #bulldozer raj is as far as we can get from nation building
Nations forged in devastation resemble petty mafias of muscle and flex. Neither a new politics, nor a vibrant economy can flourish in this morass. scroll.in/a/1023626
#Opinion: Emboldened by the ricocheting Bulldozer Raj, BJP leaders are on record, urging state authorities to identify and demolish the illegal properties of “rioters” and “Bangladeshis and Rohingyas”. scroll.in/a/1023626
While there is palpable confusion and a lack of direction in the economic sphere, there is more clarity in politics. India is being moulded into a Hindu majoritarian state, writes @professor_sudscroll.in/a/1023626
It [Trads] isn’t just fascist Italy from which they seek inspiration. They also draw upon the world of the American Alt-Right to give expression to their violent fantasies of subjugating Muslims, Dalits, women and sexual minorities. scroll.in/a/1023250