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Jun 22 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
130 dead after 6.1-magnitude #earthquake hits eastern #Afghanistan

Tremors were also felt in Pakistan’s capital and the Punjab province. scroll.in/a/1026685 Image
#Afghanistan #earthquake | Mohammad Nassim Haqqani, the head of the Taliban administration’s disaster management authority, said that 100 people were killed and over 250 were injured in the province of Paktika. scroll.in/a/1026685
#Afghanistan #earthquake | Twenty-five deaths were reported in the Nangarhar province and five in Khost.

Bilal Karimi, a deputy spokesperson for the Taliban government, said that the earthquake destroyed several houses in the region. scroll.in/a/1026685 Image
#BreakingNews | An Afghan emergency official says at least 920 people killed, 600 injured in powerful earthquake. (AP)

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An earthquake of 6.1-magnitude has killed 1,000 persons in the eastern provinces of #Afghanistan on Wednesday. #AfghanistanEarthquake

Officials said that 1,500 more have been injured and that the toll could rise.

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“The number is increasing,” Mohammad Amin Huzaifa, head of the Information and Culture Department in Paktika.

“People are digging grave after grave.” #AfghanistanEarthquake

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Jun 24
#DroupadiMurmu as President would be a triumph for the Sangh Parivar – but not the Adivasi community

By nominating Murmu as its presidential candidate,the Sangh has completed its last leg of appropriating all of India’s major identities By Vivek Deshpande
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Wouldn’t this be to reduce the highest constitutional post in the country to a mere symbol? Yet, time and again, this is exactly what has happened under successive governments. By Vivek Deshpande

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Jun 24
Nine years after Muzaffarnagar riots, the only woman who pursued rape charges still awaits justice

She stood her ground even as the other rape complainants withdrew their cases. Nearly a decade later, is a verdict anywhere in sight? @iyersaishwarya writes scroll.in/a/1026696
In 2013, as communal riots spread across Muzaffarnagar in western UP, she had been beaten up and raped. Her son, then three months old, had been held hostage.

If she protested, her assailants had said, they would kill her son, @iyersaishwarya writes scroll.in/a/1026696
The 34-year-old said she knew the three men who had raped her – they lived in her village and were frequent customers of her husband, a tailor. scroll.in/a/1026696

She was scared and dizzy with fever on Feb 18, the day she had to go to the Muzaffarnagar district court.
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Jun 24
#MaharashtraPoliticalTurmoil | 37 Shiv Sena MLAs proclaim Eknath Shinde as legislature party leader

A quick recap of the top developments from Thursday on the #PoliticalCrisisInMaharashtra⬇️

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#MaharashtraPoliticalTurmoil | The rebel MLAs are demanding that the Shiv Sena should quit the ruling alliance formed with the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party.

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#MaharashtraPoliticalCrisis | 37 rebel Shiv Sena MLAs who are currently camping at a hotel in Guwahati on Thursday write to Maharashtra Dy Speaker Narhari Zirwal, proclaiming state minister Eknath Shinde as their leader in the legislature.

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Jun 23
What is the Anti-Defection Law and how will it shape the Maharashtra crisis?

The law was supposed to end corrupt defections. But it has clearly failed, @ShoaibDaniyal writes. ✍️

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If two-thirds of the MLAs (or MPs, in the case of Parliament) agree to defy the party leadership, they legally can.

The Anti-Defection Law will not apply to them, @ShoaibDaniyal writes. ✍️

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Tuesday saw a repeat of a now-familiar sight in Indian politics: MLAs being herded to a secure holiday resort to prepare the ground for a government to be brought down. By @ShoaibDaniyal ✍️

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Jun 23
#DataCheck: In seven years, India has seen a 500% rise in cases filed under its hate-speech law

The country lacks exclusive legislation criminalising hate speech that does not incite violence. (Via @FactCheckIndia)

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#DataCheck: While there is no specific law that defines hate speech, there are select legal provisions or sections in the Indian Penal Code that prohibit certain forms of speech with the exception to free speech.

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#DataCheck: Cases filed under this section registered a sixfold or almost 500% increase in seven years – 323 cases in 2014 to 1,804 cases in 2020 – according to the National Crime Records Bureau.

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Congresswoman Ilhan Omar introduces a resolution about ‘worsening treatment’ of minorities in India

She urged the US Secretary of State to designate India as a ‘country of particular concern’ because of its human rights record. scroll.in/a/1026772
Omar, one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress, expressed “grave concern about the worsening treatment of religious minorities in India”. scroll.in/a/1026772
The resolution by the congresswoman noted that the US Commission on International Religious Freedom has also recommended to the Joe Biden government that it designate India as a “country of particular concern” for three consecutive years. scroll.in/a/1026772
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