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  • Uttarakhand: Ex-serviceman dies all through starvation strike in Chamoli 

    By way of PTI

    GOPESHWAR (U’khand): A 56-year-old ex-serviceman who used to be sitting on a day-long starvation strike as a part of a gaggle to call for advantages beneath the ‘One Rank, One Pension’ died on the protest website right here on Sunday, police mentioned.

    Shiv Singh Bisht used to be sitting on a one-day starvation strike with fellow ex-service workforce on the district Justice of the Peace’s place of business in Chamoli.

    Consistent with knowledge from the place of business of the Superintendent of Police (Chamoli), Bisht’s well being deteriorated all through the starvation strike and assembly at the Collectorate premises.

    He used to be taken to the district health center the place medical doctors declared him introduced lifeless, the police mentioned.

    Ex-service workforce were agitating to press for his or her 16-point record of calls for, together with the ‘One Rank, One Pension’.

    Virendra Singh, president of the Chamoli District Ex-Servicemen League Group, mentioned Bisht’s demise used to be a tragic incident for his circle of relatives and the organisation.

    GOPESHWAR (U’khand): A 56-year-old ex-serviceman who used to be sitting on a day-long starvation strike as a part of a gaggle to call for advantages beneath the ‘One Rank, One Pension’ died on the protest website right here on Sunday, police mentioned.

    Shiv Singh Bisht used to be sitting on a one-day starvation strike with fellow ex-service workforce on the district Justice of the Peace’s place of business in Chamoli.

    Consistent with knowledge from the place of business of the Superintendent of Police (Chamoli), Bisht’s well being deteriorated all through the starvation strike and assembly at the Collectorate premises.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    He used to be taken to the district health center the place medical doctors declared him introduced lifeless, the police mentioned.

    Ex-service workforce were agitating to press for his or her 16-point record of calls for, together with the ‘One Rank, One Pension’.

    Virendra Singh, president of the Chamoli District Ex-Servicemen League Group, mentioned Bisht’s demise used to be a tragic incident for his circle of relatives and the organisation.

  • Ladies’s Reservation Invoice: BRS chief Kavitha to carry starvation strike in Delhi

    By way of PTI

    NEW DELHI: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) chief Ok Kavitha introduced a day-long starvation strike within the nationwide capital on Friday to press the call for for the passage of the Ladies’s Reservation Invoice.

    Addressing the media, Kavitha — the daughter of Telangana Leader Minister Ok Chandrashekar Rao — mentioned the invoice has been mendacity in chilly garage since 2010 and the Modi executive has a historical alternative to get it handed in Parliament prior to 2024.

    The starvation strike can be held through her NGO Bharat Jagriti, she mentioned and added all political events had been invited to enroll in it. Thus far, 18 events, together with the CPI-M and the Shiv Sena, have showed their participation.

    “About 500-600 individuals will sit down on a starvation strike, however the attendance can be a lot more. Greater than 6,000 other people and 18 political events have showed their participation,” she mentioned.

    CPI-M chief Sitaram Yechury will inaugurate the programme at 10 am.

    The invoice, which seeks to order 33 according to cent of seats in Lok Sabha and all state legislative assemblies for girls, was once offered within the Rajya Sabha in Might 2008 and was once referred to a status committee.

    In 2010, it was once handed within the Area and transmitted after all to the Lok Sabha.

    Alternatively, the invoice lapsed with the fifteenth Lok Sabha.

    Kavitha mentioned Top Minister Narendra Modi had promised in each the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha polls that his executive would convey this invoice and that it was once additionally a part of the BJP’s election manifesto.

    Not one of the BJP leaders raised this factor and the Modi executive has didn’t get this invoice handed in Parliament regardless of having a majority, she mentioned, and added, “That is very saddening factor.”

    The sector is progressing most effective through taking ladies on equivalent footing with males.

    This sadly has now not took place in India.

    “I wish to urge PM, all political leaders and particularly President Droupadi Murmu and request the Govt of India that it nonetheless has a chance as two extra Parliament periods are there (prior to the following election for passage of this invoice),” she mentioned.

    The Modi executive, if it needs, can get the Ladies’s Reservation Invoice handed identical to the Aadhaar Invoice which was once handed through it as a monetary invoice and through bypassing the Rajya Sabha, she added.

    Additional, Kavitha mentioned that India is in 148th position amongst 193 nations with regards to ladies’s illustration.

    There are most effective 78 ladies individuals out of 543 in Parliament, which is 14.4 according to cent.

    Sadly, it is extremely lower than the worldwide reasonable.

    In neighbouring Pakistan, there’s a 17 according to cent reservation for girls and their illustration in Bangladesh is upper than in India, she mentioned.

    NEW DELHI: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) chief Ok Kavitha introduced a day-long starvation strike within the nationwide capital on Friday to press the call for for the passage of the Ladies’s Reservation Invoice.

    Addressing the media, Kavitha — the daughter of Telangana Leader Minister Ok Chandrashekar Rao — mentioned the invoice has been mendacity in chilly garage since 2010 and the Modi executive has a historical alternative to get it handed in Parliament prior to 2024.

    The starvation strike can be held through her NGO Bharat Jagriti, she mentioned and added all political events had been invited to enroll in it. Thus far, 18 events, together with the CPI-M and the Shiv Sena, have showed their participation.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    “About 500-600 individuals will sit down on a starvation strike, however the attendance can be a lot more. Greater than 6,000 other people and 18 political events have showed their participation,” she mentioned.

    CPI-M chief Sitaram Yechury will inaugurate the programme at 10 am.

    The invoice, which seeks to order 33 according to cent of seats in Lok Sabha and all state legislative assemblies for girls, was once offered within the Rajya Sabha in Might 2008 and was once referred to a status committee.

    In 2010, it was once handed within the Area and transmitted after all to the Lok Sabha.

    Alternatively, the invoice lapsed with the fifteenth Lok Sabha.

    Kavitha mentioned Top Minister Narendra Modi had promised in each the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha polls that his executive would convey this invoice and that it was once additionally a part of the BJP’s election manifesto.

    Not one of the BJP leaders raised this factor and the Modi executive has didn’t get this invoice handed in Parliament regardless of having a majority, she mentioned, and added, “That is very saddening factor.”

    The sector is progressing most effective through taking ladies on equivalent footing with males.

    This sadly has now not took place in India.

    “I wish to urge PM, all political leaders and particularly President Droupadi Murmu and request the Govt of India that it nonetheless has a chance as two extra Parliament periods are there (prior to the following election for passage of this invoice),” she mentioned.

    The Modi executive, if it needs, can get the Ladies’s Reservation Invoice handed identical to the Aadhaar Invoice which was once handed through it as a monetary invoice and through bypassing the Rajya Sabha, she added.

    Additional, Kavitha mentioned that India is in 148th position amongst 193 nations with regards to ladies’s illustration.

    There are most effective 78 ladies individuals out of 543 in Parliament, which is 14.4 according to cent.

    Sadly, it is extremely lower than the worldwide reasonable.

    In neighbouring Pakistan, there’s a 17 according to cent reservation for girls and their illustration in Bangladesh is upper than in India, she mentioned.

  • Jailed Iran filmmaker Jafar Panahi on starvation strike

    Via On-line Table

    PARIS: Acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, who has been jailed for the closing six months, stated he has begun a starvation strike to protest his persevered detention, in line with a remark revealed by means of Tahereh Saeidi, his spouse Thursday.

    Tahereh Saeidi introduced the scoop in regards to the starvation strike on her Instagram web page.

    Panahi, a former Golden Endure winner whose social-issue motion pictures have drawn retribution from the Islamic Republic, recounted becoming a member of different Iranian filmmakers on July 20 closing 12 months to protest the arrest of 2 colleagues, most effective to seek out himself in Evin jail after being resentenced by means of a pass judgement on, The Hollywood Reporter recalled.

    Panahi gained a Golden Lion on the Venice Movie Competition in 2000 for his movie “The Circle”. In 2015, he gained the Golden Endure at Berlin for “Taxi Tehran”, and in 2018, he gained the most productive screenplay prize at Cannes for “3 Faces.”

    He began his dry starvation strike, refusing meals and water, from Wednesday, he stated within the remark.

    “As of late, like many of us trapped in Iran, I don’t have any selection however to protest in contrast inhumane behaviour with my dearest ownership — my existence,” stated Panahi.

    Panahi stated he’s protesting in opposition to the unlawful and inhumane behaviour of the judicial and safety equipment and the hostage-taking.

    “I’ve began a starvation strike because the morning of the twelfth of Bahman, and I can refuse to devour and drink any meals and medication till the time of my unlock. I can stay on this
    state till in all probability my useless frame is free of jail,” the ace director stated within the remark.

    “With love for Iran and the folks of my land,” Jafar Panahi signed off.

    There have been expectancies closing month that the judiciary may order his unlock, however he stays at the back of bars in Tehran’s Evin jail.

    In line with AFP, Panahi, 62, used to be arrested on July 11 and were because of serve a six-year sentence passed down in 2010 after his conviction for “propaganda in opposition to the machine”.

    However on October 15, the Excellent Courtroom quashed the conviction and ordered a retrial, elevating hopes amongst his prison workforce he might be launched.

    Panahi’s July arrest got here after he attended a court docket listening to for fellow movie director Mohammad Rasoulof, who were detained a couple of days previous.

    Rasoulof used to be launched from jail on January 7 after being granted a two-week furlough for well being causes and continues to be believed to be out of doors of prison.

    Cinema figures had been a number of the 1000’s of other folks arrested by means of Iran in its crackdown at the protests sparked by means of the September 16 loss of life in custody of Mahsa Amini, 22, who were arrested for allegedly violating its strict get dressed code for girls.

    Superstar actor Taraneh Alidoosti, who had revealed photographs of herself with out dressed in the Islamic headband, used to be amongst the ones detained despite the fact that she used to be launched in early January after being held for just about 3 weeks.

    (With inputs from AFP)

    PARIS: Acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, who has been jailed for the closing six months, stated he has begun a starvation strike to protest his persevered detention, in line with a remark revealed by means of Tahereh Saeidi, his spouse Thursday.

    Tahereh Saeidi introduced the scoop in regards to the starvation strike on her Instagram web page.

    Panahi, a former Golden Endure winner whose social-issue motion pictures have drawn retribution from the Islamic Republic, recounted becoming a member of different Iranian filmmakers on July 20 closing 12 months to protest the arrest of 2 colleagues, most effective to seek out himself in Evin jail after being resentenced by means of a pass judgement on, The Hollywood Reporter recalled.

    Panahi gained a Golden Lion on the Venice Movie Competition in 2000 for his movie “The Circle”. In 2015, he gained the Golden Endure at Berlin for “Taxi Tehran”, and in 2018, he gained the most productive screenplay prize at Cannes for “3 Faces.”

    He began his dry starvation strike, refusing meals and water, from Wednesday, he stated within the remark.

    “As of late, like many of us trapped in Iran, I don’t have any selection however to protest in contrast inhumane behaviour with my dearest ownership — my existence,” stated Panahi.

    Panahi stated he’s protesting in opposition to the unlawful and inhumane behaviour of the judicial and safety equipment and the hostage-taking.

    “I’ve began a starvation strike because the morning of the twelfth of Bahman, and I can refuse to devour and drink any meals and medication till the time of my unlock. I can stay on this
    state till in all probability my useless frame is free of jail,” the ace director stated within the remark.

    “With love for Iran and the folks of my land,” Jafar Panahi signed off.

    There have been expectancies closing month that the judiciary may order his unlock, however he stays at the back of bars in Tehran’s Evin jail.

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    In line with AFP, Panahi, 62, used to be arrested on July 11 and were because of serve a six-year sentence passed down in 2010 after his conviction for “propaganda in opposition to the machine”.

    However on October 15, the Excellent Courtroom quashed the conviction and ordered a retrial, elevating hopes amongst his prison workforce he might be launched.

    Panahi’s July arrest got here after he attended a court docket listening to for fellow movie director Mohammad Rasoulof, who were detained a couple of days previous.

    Rasoulof used to be launched from jail on January 7 after being granted a two-week furlough for well being causes and continues to be believed to be out of doors of prison.

    Cinema figures had been a number of the 1000’s of other folks arrested by means of Iran in its crackdown at the protests sparked by means of the September 16 loss of life in custody of Mahsa Amini, 22, who were arrested for allegedly violating its strict get dressed code for girls.

    Superstar actor Taraneh Alidoosti, who had revealed photographs of herself with out dressed in the Islamic headband, used to be amongst the ones detained despite the fact that she used to be launched in early January after being held for just about 3 weeks.

    (With inputs from AFP)

  • South Asian College scholars pass on starvation strike, call for scholarship hike

    Through PTI

    NEW DELHI: A gaggle of scholars of South Asian College are sitting on an indefinite starvation strike to press for a hike of their scholarships, a scholars’ frame mentioned.

    The starvation strike commenced on November 7 after the management didn’t reply to their calls for, the school’s Common Frame of Scholars mentioned.

    In spite of scholars falling unwell and collapsing, the management has refused to begin discussion, it alleged.

    The scholars were challenging an building up in MA scholars’ stipend to Rs 7,000, paid extension to the Covid-affected PhD batch, making sure parity of stipend paid to PhD students with that underneath the Junior Analysis Fellowship and pupil illustration within the College Lawsuits’ Committee.

    “From November 1, the scholars have occupied the fourth flooring — out of doors the Performing President’s Place of business — in an indefinite sit-in. The indefinite starvation strike commenced on November 7,” the coed frame mentioned in a commentary.

    Management officers may no longer be reached for remark.

    The scholars have mechanically held demonstrations to press for his or her calls for since October 13.

    NEW DELHI: A gaggle of scholars of South Asian College are sitting on an indefinite starvation strike to press for a hike of their scholarships, a scholars’ frame mentioned.

    The starvation strike commenced on November 7 after the management didn’t reply to their calls for, the school’s Common Frame of Scholars mentioned.

    In spite of scholars falling unwell and collapsing, the management has refused to begin discussion, it alleged.

    The scholars were challenging an building up in MA scholars’ stipend to Rs 7,000, paid extension to the Covid-affected PhD batch, making sure parity of stipend paid to PhD students with that underneath the Junior Analysis Fellowship and pupil illustration within the College Lawsuits’ Committee.

    “From November 1, the scholars have occupied the fourth flooring — out of doors the Performing President’s Place of business — in an indefinite sit-in. The indefinite starvation strike commenced on November 7,” the coed frame mentioned in a commentary.

    Management officers may no longer be reached for remark.

    The scholars have mechanically held demonstrations to press for his or her calls for since October 13.