| No Images? Click here  The Maharashtra government has now admitted that its own bureaucracy unlawfully rejected the forest rights claims of tens of thousands of Adivasis and other traditional forest dwellers, putting them at the risk of eviction. Huffpost India’s Akshay Deshmane found the state government blamed the district level committees in two affidavits filed before the Supreme Court. The Associated Press, meanwhile, reported that it interviewed over 50 Kashmiris in a dozen villages who alleged that Indian troops inflicted beatings and electric shocks, forced them to eat dirt or drink filthy water and even threatened to abduct and marry female relatives. In other news, Nirmala Sitharaman’s remarks on millennials have become the butt of all jokes on the internet with Twitter users giving credit to the millennials for destroying many industries. The Maharashtra government affidavits cited in this story were filed in the context of a clutch of Supreme Court petitions on the implementation of the Forest Rights Act of 2006. On February 13, 2019, the court ordered the eviction of all forest dwellers whose rights claims were rejected, provoking concerns that 1.89 million forest dwellers could be forcibly evicted. One estimate put this number at 9.5 million forest dwellers.  Apple laid out its vision of the future (or the next couple of quarters, at the very least) for the iPhone, Watch and most of its Services play. Here’s a rundown of all major announcements made by Apple at the event and first impressions based on using the new hardware in the demo area.  New to this email? You can sign up here.You can also follow HuffPost India on Flipboard.©2019 HuffPost India | Worldmark 3, FL 3, Aerocity, Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi, Delhi 110037 |
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