âWarm, kind, wise and brilliantâ: Guardian writers remember Kakoli Bhattacharya
Our Delhi correspondents pay tribute to the Indian journalist and Guardian news assistant, who has died of Covid
Kakoli Bhattacharya, who has died aged 51, had worked as an assistant, translator and fixer for the Guardian since 2009.
Kakoli Bhattacharya, who has died aged 51, had worked as an assistant, translator and fixer for the Guardian since 2009.
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Tue 27 Apr 2021 11.04 EDT
Last modified on Tue 27 Apr 2021 12.02 EDT
Every Guardian south Asia correspondent over the past decade can remember the first time they met Kakoli Bhattacharya. A smart, brilliant and tenacious journalist, Kakoli joined the Guardian in Delhi in 2009 as an assistant, translator and fixer â but the role she would play in the lives of all the correspondents who worked with her far outstripped her official duties.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi with United States President Joe Biden. | Narendra Modi via Twitter
A United States panel has recommended that the Joe Biden government designate India as a “country of particular concern” for engaging in and tolerating “systematic, ongoing, and egregious” religious freedom violations.
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom suggested imposing targeted sanctions on individuals and entities responsible for violating religious freedom by freezing their assets and/or stopping them from entering the US.
This is the second such recommendation from the panel. It had noted a “sharp downward turn” in religious freedom in India in 2019 and flagged it as a “country of particular concern” in its 2020 report, for the first time since 2004.
Nagaland forms panel on listing indigenous inhabitants
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The NRC-like exercise seeks to filter out the non-original residents of the State
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The NRC-like exercise seeks to filter out the non-original residents of the State The Nagaland government has decided to form a joint consultative committee (JCC) involving all traditional tribal bodies and, civil society organisations for taking an exercise to register the State’s indigenous inhabitants.
The decision was taken at a meeting the government had organised on Friday with leaders of the community-based and social organisations as well as political parties in State capital Kohima on the issue of preparing the Register of Indigenous Inhabitants of Nagaland (RIIN).
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The apex body of Naga tribes said the Register of Indigenous Inhabitants of Nagaland could have ‘unforeseen and dangerous implications’ if not handled with utmost care
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The apex body of Naga tribes said the Register of Indigenous Inhabitants of Nagaland could have ‘unforeseen and dangerous implications’ if not handled with utmost care
An apex body of Naga tribes has asked the Nagaland government not to be hasty with the exercise to prepare the Register of Indigenous Inhabitants of Nagaland (RIIN), seen as a variant of Assam’s National Register of Citizens.
The Nagaland government has reportedly been trying to revive the RIIN exercise that was launched in July 2019 with the stated objective of preventing outsiders from obtaining fake indigenous certificates for seeking jobs and benefits of government schemes.