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Crimes against Dalits, women high in BJP-ruled States

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May 6, 2018

Hubballi, May 6: Referring to data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), former Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said that under BJP’s watch, a Dalit suffered an atrocity every 12 minutes and six Dalit women were raped every day.

Addressing presspersons along with AICC General Secretary Mukul Wasnik and spokesperson Pavan Khera, Mr Shinde said that highest crimes against Adivasis were registered in BJP ruled states of Chhatisgarh and Madhya Pradesh.

States that accounted for a majority of crimes against Dalits as per NCRB, were the BJP-ruled States of Madhya Pradesh (43.4%), Rajasthan (42%), Goa (36.7%) and Gujarat (32.5%), while Congress-ruled Karnataka recorded significantly lesser crimes against Dalits, he said.

Mr. Shinde said the last four years of the NDA rule at the Centre had witnessed an anti-Dalit and anti-adivasi bias like never before, leading to a brazen attack on the Constitution. “And the dilution of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, is a consequence of this deep rooted prejudice,” he said.

In contrast to this, the Congress-led government in Karnataka has initiated measures to empower the SC/STs and weaker sections. In fact based on the population, the budgetary allocation had been increased to 24.10% to facilitate their empowerment, he said.

Mr. Wasnik said that there had been massive cuts in allocation to Scheduled Castes in the Central budget. The allocation to SCs which accounted for 16.6% of the country’s population has been now reduced to 5.5%, he said.

He pointed out that even in terms of jobs for SCs there had been a massive reduction of 91%. While there were 92,928 jobs for Dalits in the Central government during the Congress rule (2013), it came down to just 8,436 in 2015 under BJP, he said.

Taking a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he said while Mr. Modi praised B.R. Amedkar, his party’s goons were vandalising the statues of Ambedkar.

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May 30,2020

New Delhi, May 30: An Air India flight from Delhi to Moscow on Saturday had to return midway after the airline's ground team found out that one of the pilots had tested positive for novel coronavirus, officials said.

"When the A320 plane, which did not have any passengers as it was heading to Moscow to bring back stranded Indians under Vande Bharat Mission, had reached Uzbekistan's airspace, our team on ground realised that one of the pilots had tested COVID-positive," senior Air India officials said.

"The flight was immediately asked to return. It came back to Delhi at around 12.30 pm on Saturday," the officials said. The crew has been quarantined. Another plane would be sent to Moscow to bring back the stranded Indians, according to the officials.

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Bloomberg
July 27,2020

New Delhi, Jul 27: India’s coronavirus epidemic is now growing at the fastest in the world, increasing 20% over the last week to more than 14 lakh confirmed cases, according to Bloomberg’s Coronavirus Tracker.

Infections in the South Asian nation of 130 crore people have reached 14.3 lakh, including 32,771 deaths, India’s health ministry said, with daily cases close to a record 50,000 on Monday. India is only trailing the US and Brazil now in the number of confirmed infections, but its growth in new cases is the fastest.

Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka are among the states where the maximum number of daily cares are being reported. The world’s second-most populous country has been ramping up testing, with 515,472 samples taken on Sunday, according to the Indian Council of Medical Research.

Still, India and Brazil have some of the world’s lowest testing rates, with 11.8 tests and 11.93 tests per 1,000 people respectively, compared to the US with 152.98 tests per 1,000 and Russia with 184.34, according to Our World in Data, a project based at the University of Oxford in the UK.

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March 26,2020

New Delhi, Mar 26: The total number of people who have been confirmed positive for COVID-19 in India has risen to 649 in India, including 593 active cases and 42 people who have been cured or discharged from hospitals, according to the recent update by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) on Thursday morning.
The death toll due to the novel coronavirus in the country has reached 13, the official data reported. There have been 3 more deaths due to COVID-19 reported in the country since last evening.
An 85-year-old woman in Gujarat died yesterday while with the passing away of a 65-year-old woman, Madhya Pradesh reported its first COVID-19 death. Tamil Nadu also reported its first death in the state yesterday due to the deadly infection.
According to report from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) India had tested 24,254 people as of 8 p.m. on March 25.
The country is now in its second day of a 21-day lockdown that was announced by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday to deal with the spread of coronavirus, saying that "social distancing" is the only option to deal with the disease, which spreads rapidly.
The central government had on Wednesday announced that it will provide 7 kg ration to 80 crore people in India. The Centre also said that it has earmarked Rs 1.80 lakh crores for providing wheat at Rs 2 per kg and rice at Rs 3 per kg
"Union Cabinet has decided to provide wheat at Rs 2 per kg which is worth Rs 27 per kg and rice at Rs 3 per kg which is worth Rs 37 per kg. A total amount of Rs 1 lakh 80 thousand crores is being spent for the cause. The amount will be given in advance to the states for the coming 3 months," Union Minister Sadananda Gowda said yesterday.
Those shops which are catering to essential services will continue doing so during the 21-day nationwide lockdown.

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