Anti-citizenship Act stir: No fresh violence reported in West Bengal today

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No crisp episode of viciousness over altered citizenship law was accounted for in West Bengal on Wednesday morning, police said.
In any case, a senior cop and two other faculty were harmed when a gathering of instigators flung unrefined bombs at them in Sankrail territory of Howrah area on Tuesday night.
Howrah City Police Deputy Commissioner of Police (Headquarters) Ajeet Singh Yadav was harmed in the two his legs in the wake of being hit by chips of the bomb however was released from an emergency clinic after he was regulated therapeutic guide.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is booked to partake in a dissent walk against citizenship law from Howrah Maidan to Dorina Crossing in Esplanade territory of Kolkata on Wednesday.
She has held two dissent walks in north and south Kolkata on Monday and Tuesday separately.
The state has seen pitched fights against the citizenship law since December 13.
Police has ventured up vigil over the state and upwards of 354 dissenters were captured for savagery.

A few trains going through West Bengal were either dropped or short-ended because of the fights.....Read More

SC refuses to allow Jharkhand ex-CM Madhu Koda to contest Assembly polls

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The Supreme Court on Friday wouldn't permit previous Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda from challenging the up and coming get together decisions in the state. A seat of Justices N V Ramana and V Ramasubramanian looked for a reaction from the Election Commission on the request of Koda testing his preclusion by the survey board in 2017 for not recording political race costs.
The survey board had excluded Koda from challenging decisions for a long time. At the start, the insight showing up for Koda said that it has been a long time since he has been precluded and the top court ought to enable him to challenge the forthcoming surveys. "You yourself is liable for the postponement. You should sit tight for another year. We can't enable you to challenge the races at this stage. We have to hear the opposite side (EC)," the seat said and gave notice to the survey board.
On November 13, the pinnacle court had consented to hear the supplication of Koda testing the survey board choice after his guidance said that the last date for documenting designation for the up and coming get together surveys was November 18. Koda was excluded by the survey board in September, 2017 for a long time from challenging races for neglecting to document subtleties of costs identified with the 2009 Lok Sabha surveys, which he won from the Singhbhum electorate of the state as an Independent up-and-comer.
Koda, an Independent MLA, filled in as the central clergyman of Jharkhand from 2006 to 2008. He has been indicted in a coal square designation trick case and has been given three-year prison term. He has likewise been charged in tax evasion cases enrolled by the Enforcement Directorate and lopsided resources case enlisted by the state cautiousness division.

He was first captured in 2009 from Chaibasa region of the state by the watchfulness division.....Read More

Keep the tribals happy: Forest-dwellers hold the key in Jharkhand elections

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Tribals' disappointment with the moderate usage of the Forest Rights Act (FRA), which offers formal acknowledgment of woodland inhabitants' property rights, could be a central factor in more than 62 of the 81 Assembly bodies electorate in the Jharkhand state races, an autonomous research bunch said.
The examination depends on the way that the quantity of SC/ST voters qualified for land rights under the FRA was more than the edge of triumph in the last political race in 58 of the 62 seats considered FRA-delicate.
Almost 70% of the populace in voting demographics spread crosswise over Jharkhand — Chakradharpur, Gumla, Latehar and Simdega, for instance — have a place with the SC/ST class.
Dissecting the aftereffects of the 2014 Assembly decisions in these 62 bodies electorate, scientists reasoned that any ideological group that guaranteed successful execution of the FRA and different laws ensuring land privileges of tribals could vanquish the officeholder Bharatiya Janata Party.
The FRA, which became effective in 2006, is basic to the employments of in any event 3.8 million SC/ST voters in Jharkhand, 52% of 7.3 million voters, as indicated by the 2014 democratic insights.

Of the SC/ST voters, 75% (2.9 million) have a place with STs, discovered experts Tushar Shah and Archana Soreng, the two individuals from the NGO organize Community Forest Resource-Learning and Advocacy (CFR-LA), who led this examination autonomous of CFR-LA...Read More

India is 112th in WEF rankings on gender gap, Bangladesh does better

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India is 112th among countries positioned regarding the hole among sexes, and it was among the last five for ladies' wellbeing and endurance and financial support, said a yearly overview on Tuesday.
Iceland remained the world's most unbiased nation on the World Economic Forum's Gender Gap Report. India descended the stepping stool from its 108th position a year ago to rank beneath nations like China (106th), Sri Lanka (102nd), Nepal (101st), Brazil (92nd), Indonesia (85th) and Bangladesh (50th).
Yemen is positioned the most noticeably awful (153rd), while Iraq is 152nd and Pakistan 151st. "The time it will take to close the sex hole limited to 99.5 years in 2019. While an enhancement for 2018 - – when the hole was determined to take 108 years to close - despite everything it implies equality among people crosswise over wellbeing, instruction, work and legislative issues will take in excess of a lifetime to accomplish," the WEF said.
Geneva-based WEF, a worldwide association for open private collaboration, said the current year's improvement can to a great extent be credited to a noteworthy increment in the quantity of ladies in governmental issues. The political sexual orientation hole will take 95 years to close, contrasted with 107 years a year ago. Around the world, ladies presently hold 25.2 percent of parliamentary lower-house seats and 21.2 percent of ecclesiastical positions, contrasted with 24.1 percent and 19 percent, individually a year ago.

Be that as it may, the financial open door hole has compounded, augmenting to 257 years, contrasted with 202 years a year ago. The report said probably the best challenge to shutting this hole is ladies' under-portrayal in rising jobs, for example, distributed computing, building and information and AI....Read More

Those involved in arson can be identified by their clothes: PM on CAB stir

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Accusing the Congress and its allies of fuelling violence over the amended Citizenship Act, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the opposition's actions prove that the decision to pass the bill was "1,000 per cent correct", and those indulging in arson "can be identified by their clothes".
"The Congress and its allies are stoking fire over the Citizenship Act, but people of northeast have rejected violence," he said during an election rally here."The country is watching; people's faith has been cemented in Modi after the Bill was cleared by Parliament. Their (Opposition) actions reflect that the decision to pass Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in Parliament is 1,000 per cent correct," the prime minister said.
Protests have been raging against the law in northeast and West Bengal, where several railway stations, trains and buses were set afire by mobs over the last two days."People who are setting fire (to property) can be seen on TV... They can be identified by the clothes they are wearing," he said without elaborating.
Condemning the overseas protests held by Congress, he said, "For the first time, the Congress did what Pakistanis has been doing for long."A large number of people had gathered outside the Indian High Commission in London on Saturday to protest the amended Act and what they branded as Modi government's "failures".

"You will be surprised at the events that had unfolded near the Indian High Commission in London after the verdict was announced on Ram Janmabhoomi and the abrogation of Article 370. People from Pakistan, those settled in London, had staged demonstrations outside our embassy," he said."Did any Indian stage demonstration near the Embassy? If there is any issue, a person goes to the Embassy, meets the officials, who then send the documents to the central government," Modi explained...Read More

Jharkhand polls: Phase-IV voting on Monday; 2 ministers' fate to be decided

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The fate of state Labour Minister Raj Paliwar and Land and Revenue Minister Amar Kumar Bauri will be decided in the fourth phase of polling in Jharkhand on Monday.
BJP candidate Bauri will lock horns with NDA ally AJSU Party nominee Umakant Razzak in Chandankiyari seat while the saffron party's Paliwar will contest JMM candidate Hussain Ansari in Madhupur constituency.
Jharia seat will witness a direct fight between two women candidates of the same family.The BJP has nominated Ragini Singh, wife of sitting saffron party MLA Sanjeev Singh who is behind the bars in the murder case of his cousin Niraj Singh of the Congress.The Congress has fielded Niraj Singh's widow Purnima Niraj Singh in the seat.
A total of 47,85,009 electorate, including 22,44,134 women and 81 third gender voters, are eligible to cast their franchise in the 15 Assembly seats that are going to polls in the fourth of the five phases, state Chief Electoral Officer Vinay Kumar Choubey said on Sunday.A total of 221 candidates, including 23 women nominees, are in the fray in the elections.
The highest number of 25 candidates will lock horns in the Bokaro seat while the least number of eight nominees will contest the Nirsa constituency, he said.Voting will commence at 7 am and end at 3 pm at Jamua, Bagodar, Giridih, Dumri and Tundi seats while polling will continue till 5 pm in rest of the constituencies, Choubey said.

Polling will be held in Deoghar (SC), Jamua (SC), Chandankiyari (SC), Madhupur, Bagodar, Gandey, Giridih, Dumri, Bokaro, Sindri, Nirsa, Dhanbad, Jharia, Tundi and Baghmara constituencies spread across four districts of the state.Of the 6,101 polling stations, 4,296 are located in rural areas, the CEO said....Read More

Jharkhand election: Polling for penultimate phase begins

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Polling for the fourth phase of the five-phased Jharkhand Assembly election began in 15 constituencies on Monday.
The voting began at 7 am, Election Commission (EC) officials said.
It will conclude at 3 pm at Jamua, Bagodar, Giridih, Dumri and Tundi, while for the rest of the seats, the voting will continue till 5 pm, they added.
The seats going to the polls in this round are Deoghar (SC), Jamua (SC), Chandankiyari (SC), Madhupur, Bagodar, Gandey, Giridih, Dumri, Bokaro, Sindri, Nirsa, Dhanbad, Jharia, Tundi and Baghmara, spread across four districts.
Jharkhand Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Vinay Kumar Choubey on Sunday said armed forces were deployed in the Naxal-hit areas.
Of the 6,101 polling stations, 587 were "critical" and 405 "sensitive" in the Naxal-affected constituencies, while the non-Naxal-hit seats had 546 "critical" and 2,665 "sensitive" polling stations, he said.
A total of 47,85,009 voters, including 22,44,134 women and 81 third-gender voters, are eligible to decide the fate of 221 nominees, including 23 women candidates.As many as 34,106 voters were aged 80 years and above, while there were 66,321 differently-abled voters, the CEO said.

He said 2,504 wheelchairs and 4,039 volunteers will help the differently-abled voters, adding that a transport facility was being provided to bring them to the polling stations and drop them back.Webcasting facilities will be there in 2,122 polling stations, while 183 model polling stations were set up and only women personnel will conduct polling in 70 polling stations, the CEO said.More than one electronic voting machine (EVM) will be used in four Assembly constituencies as there are more than 16 candidates in these seats, he added....Read More