Kerala journalists union files affidavit countering several claims stated in UP govt affidavit, alleges arrest & detention protocols were broken in Kappan's case
Photo is being circulated with captions suggesting woman was hired by Congress to ‘act’ as victim’s sister-in-law in Hathras, and now as a protesting farmer.
State has also claimed that Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan is the office secretary of the banned Popular Front of India and was visiting Hathras to ‘create a caste divide’.
Kerala-based journalist Siddique Kappan was arrested on 5 October when he was on his way to UP to report on the alleged Hathras gang rape and murder case.
For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.
The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.
Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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