Mainstream Weeklyby Beena Sarwar A Pakistani Hindu stuck in India with three children after his wife died in April is pleading with the authorities to let him return to before Independence Day, August 14.
“Mein TooT gaya huN - I am broken,” says Ajeet Kumar Nagdev, 41, speaking on phone in Urdu from Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh. His wife Rekha Kumari, 38, died on April 22, a day before the last Attari-Wagah border opening. “What can I do? The children break me, but I have to get up and keep going.” (…)
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13 August 2021DELHI UNION OF JOURNALISTS (REGD.)
Flat No. 29, New Central Market, Connaught Circus, New Delhi – 110 001
Phone: 23413459, E-mail: duj.delhi[at]gmail.com
11 August, 2021
Press Release
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Bhubaneswar / Mumbai
Convener: Dr Ram Puniyani Coordinator: Dhirendra Panda
PRESS STATEMENT
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The National Solidarity Forum has instituted two annual awards in (…)