NC Digest: The Stories That You Must Not Miss Today
Here are some of the top headlines of the day.
- Prepare To Be Shocked. Here’s What An Eye Witness To The Babri Demolition Saw.
Praveen Jain, one of the country’s finest news photographers was in Ayodhya and captured rehearsals for the demolition of Babri Masjid in 1992 on the eve of the event. He was working with The Pioneer when the event took place.
Jain is a witness in the Babri Masjid demolition case. He testified on June 21-22 as the hearings of the case are being held in Lucknow currently. Read more here.
- Rajasthan: Farmers Threaten To Go On Strike; Say BJP Govt Is Exploiting Them
The Bhartiya Kisan Sangh on Tuesday threatened to go on strike from July 13 if the compensation demands of Bonli farmers are not met till July 10. The farmers are demanding payment of insurance premium and compensation for loss of crops. The Sangh held a meeting on ‘farmers awareness’ at its headquarters on Tuesday and urged farmers from nearby villages to join the movement. Read more here.
- Pune School Specifies Colour Of Innerwear, Washroom Timings, Length Of Skirts For Girls
The MIT School administration in Pune’s Maeer area on Tuesday sent notes to parents specifying the colour of innerwear their daughter/daughters should wear to school. The note written in the school dairies of the students states that girls should only be wearing white or skin colour innerwear. It also specifies the length of the skirts to be worn by the girls. Read more here.
- Kumaraswamy Announces Rs 34,000 Crore Farm Loan Waiver Scheme
In a big relief to the farm sector, Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy today announced a mega Rs 34,000 crore farm loan waiver scheme in the maiden budget of the Congress-JDS coalition government. Unveiling the budget proposals in the Assembly, Kumaraswamy, who also holds the finance portfolio, said he has limited the loan amount to Rs 2 lakh, as it was “not right” to waiver higher value crop loan. Read more here.
- Uttar Pradesh: Dalit Girl Abducted And Raped By Six Men In Muzaffarnagar
A 12-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly raped for three days by six youths after being abducted by them last month from Kotwali police station area here, police said today. A case has been registered yesterday against the six accused, five of them being minor, aged between 14 and 16 years, SHO Anil Kapervan said, adding that the sixth accused is still not identified. Read more here.
- BJP Leaders Are Talented Comedians; Here Are Eight Ridiculous Remarks Made By Them In 2018
It can be rightly said that Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) lawmakers have something funny, rather stupid to say every time they open their mouths. On some days, education minister tells us that Darwin’s theory is wrong because ‘no one has seen apes turn into humans’ and on other days, BJP ministers wed frogs to please rain gods! Read more here.
- New Rape Capital Of India? Minor Girl Raped In BJP Ruled M.P. In Fourth Such Incident In Last 10 Days
A 14-year-old tribal girl was allegedly raped by four persons in Sagar district of Madhya Pradesh, police said today, fourth such incident in the state in last 10 days. The incident took place at Tejpur village near here yesterday, Assistant Sub-Inspector K L Ahirwar of Gourjhamar police station, said. A next-door neighbour allegedly asked the victim, a school dropout, to come to her house to help with some domestic chores yesterday morning, he said. Read more here.
- MSP Hike Yet Another ‘Jumla’, An ‘Electoral Lollypop’: Congress
The Congress said the hike in minimum support price (MSP) for kharif crops, announced by the government today, was a “jumla” (rhetoric) and “electoral lollypop” aimed at wooing farmers ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha election. The party charged the Modi dispensation with “duping” farmers and said that it had failed to live up to its promise of fixing MSP at 50 per cent above the cost of production. Read more here.
- Approval To Rs 200 Per Quintal Hike In MSP For Paddy Historic Betrayal By Govt: Farmers’ Organisation
The All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) today termed the Centre’s decision to hike the minimum support price for paddy by Rs 200 per quintal a “historic betrayal” and accused the BJP-led NDA government of “hoodwinking” farmers with an eye on the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The decision, taken by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, comes less than a year before the next general elections. Read more here.
- Advocate Sudha Bharadwaj Refuses To Be Intimidated By Arnab’s Dirty Tricks, Will Send Him A Legal Notice Instead
- The Eye Witness of Babri Demolition Shares His Experience
Pravin Jain, one of the country’s finest news photographers was in Ayodhya and captured rehearsals for the demolition of Babri Masjid in 1992 on the eve of the event. He was working with The Pioneer when the event took place. Jain is a witness in the Babri Masjid demolition case. He testified on June 21-22 as the hearings of the case are being held in Lucknow currently. Read more here.