The education minister’s resignation sparks celebrations by Cockroach Janata Party (CJP), but security forces arrive at the protest site at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar in large numbers and start sending the protestors away.
CJP chief Abhijeet Dipke says new education secretary has “severe multi-crore corruption charges against him”. Government is “rewarding corruption instead of ensuring accountability,” he says of the transfers.
Activist Amit Bhatnagar’s indefinite hunger strike is on the 18th day. Thousands of men and women in MP are protesting against proposed dam in Ken-Betwa river linking project that threatens to submerge 22 villages and displace over 7,000 families.
‘Sadak pe khade rehna kabse crime ho gaya?’ asks actress Ayesha Khan after Mumbai cops detain her for attending a gathering organised to show solidarity for the student protests in Delhi
Swatantra Bharadwaj, a 21-year-old Hindutva influencer, was heard saying in a podcast that he was not arrested despite his murderous attack on CJP protester Nishu Azad’s father. “I was not even jailed. The world should know this. I was out and
about through the night,” he said.
A buffer against fear, and relief from mental burden are among the perceptible and verifiable benefits the chanting of the mahamantra brings. Staunch believers say it works like the wind clears storm clouds, and sunrise dissolves darkness.
The two men were among hundreds of workers who vanished after the glacial collapse wreaked havoc in Nepal along its border with China on August 26. The disaster has so far claimed at least 1,280 lives, with more than 5,500 people still missing.