Ananya Bhardwaj, who received the award for her coverage of this year's Manipur ethnic violence, calls the assignment among her 'most challenging', because of language barrier & lack of access.
Siddiqui, 38, was killed when he was on assignment in Afghanistan last year. He won the award along with Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo and Amit Dave from Reuters news agency.
Talking about the horrific torture Danish faced, the photojournalist's parents said they have urged the International Criminal Court to investigate his death 'on priority'.
Clashes erupted on Republic Day during a farmers' tractor rally in Delhi. Later in the year, the farmers’ protest ended with government repealing the farm laws.
Internal investigation into Danish Siddiqui's death reveals Reuters South Asia editors were unaware of his embedding with Afghan forces, also finds that Siddiqui was mistakenly left behind by soldiers in Spin Boldak.
Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.
On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.
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