The decision by Twitter to label National Public Radio (NPR) in the USA as “state-affiliated media,” which it then changed to “government-funded media” after a barrage of criticism, underscores the need to rethink the role of major social media platforms as critical gatekeepers in the public sphere.
The whole process of census-taking needs at least one year, and only thereafter will the provisional population figures be available. The break-up of the population into various social categories and workers and the related preparation of final tables will take further time. In fact, by the time the final religious tables start coming up, say in 2027, the Government will be busy preparing for the next census operation of 2031
The 2021-22 annual report, citing Covid-19 pandemic for the delay in updating the NPR and other field activities, stressed the need to update the NPR database across the country, except Assam.
The report, published on Monday (November 7), has underlined the need to update the NPR database across the country, except Assam.
Asaduddin Owaisi said, "It is already happening that you first give the long-term VISA and then they (minority community of Afghanistan) get citizenship."
The “clarification” assumes significance in the light of the prevailing speculations about his growing proximity with Opposition leader Tejashwi Yadav from the RJD in the recent week during which he had held two successive closed-door meetings with the latter in the Bihar assembly.
The Congress veteran also trained his guns at the Centre over the abrupt transfer of the Delhi High Court Judge S Murlidhar calling it a "midnight surgical strike" resorted to by the Centre in the face of violence spiral in Northeast Delhi.
“It is strengthening the speculation that BJP’s top leadership and chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s hand-inglove which is why Shah can come to Kolkata. Miss Banerjee has not condemned the hate speeches by three BJP leaders including Union minister who instigated the Delhi riots,”CPM leader Sujan Chakraborty said.
The EZC meeting, chaired by Home Minister Amit Shah, discussed Left-wing extremism besides issues like coal-royalty revision, crimes and rail-link projects.
Indeed, Bihar is the first state with an NDA government to adopt a unanimous resolution in the Assembly, seeking to stick to the proforma of the old NPR that was finalised in 2010.
