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Topic2002 Gujarat riots

Topic: 2002 Gujarat riots

In age of amnesia, it is easy to forget Bilkis Bano’s fight and the failure of chowkidars

As India votes, Bilkis Bano’s victory should be a stark reminder of past injustices, of politicians who tread over bodies of many like her for their aspirations.

Bilkis Bano has another reason to smile in her 17-year fight for justice

Tuesday's Supreme Court order, directing the Gujarat govt to pay Rs 50 lakh to the 2002 riots victim, comes 2 years after it upheld life sentence to 11 accused.  

SC orders Gujarat govt to give Rs 50 lakh, job & accommodation to Bilkis Bano

Bilkis Bano, who was gang raped during the 2002 riots, earlier refused to accept a Rs 5 lakh offer and sought exemplary compensation from Gujarat govt.

‘I am coming to fight you’: Gulberg massacre survivors to take on Amit Shah, BJP in Gujarat

Two brothers who lost many of their family in the 2002 Gulberg massacre are contesting the Lok Sabha elections in Gujarat, which goes to polls on April 23.

Supreme Court to hear Zakia Jafri plea challenging Modi clean chit in 4 weeks

Zakia Jafri, wife of ex-MP Ehsan Jafri, one of 68 killed in the post Godhra Gujarat riots.

SC-appointed Special Task Force ‘finds 4 Gujarat encounters suspicious’

The STF, headed by former SC judge H.S. Bedi, has indicated the involvement of some police officers in the encounters that followed the 2002 Gujarat riots.

There’s nothing ideological about PM Modi’s first term in office

2019 election will reveal whether pragmatic & non-ideological choices can also yield political returns.

End of the era of Bansals as #MeToo strikes Binny

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Supreme Court to hear plea against clean chit to PM Modi for 2002 Gujarat riots on 19 Nov

In 2012, a special investigation team had filed a closure report and given the clean chit to Modi saying there was no prosecutable evidence against him.

Pot’s calling the kettle black

In 1984, there was shame, there was also decency. In 2002, there’s Modi.

On Camera

Russian-style socialism dominated Nehru’s imagination. It was disastrous

It is necessary to break the spell of socialist dogma on the imagination of those attracted by its Utopia as the only scientific way of progress, wrote MA Venkatarao in 1963.

What’s behind bond yields’ logic-defying spike? The market’s concern over the future

While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.

Navy gets first Tata-made Spanish 3D surveillance radar for its warships, 19 more to come

It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.

Gen Zs have taken down the Nepal regime. Here’s why this will never happen in India

To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.