Gates Foundation staffer resigns to protest against giving Gates Foundation's Award to Modi
New Delhi: Hours before Prime Minister Narendra Modi officially received the Gates Foundation’s annual Global Goalkeeper Award for his Swachh Bharat Mission, a staff member at the foundation reportedly resigned in protest.
Sabah Hamid, a 42-year-old communications specialist, told TRT World that honouring Modi while he imposed a communications and movement lockdown in Kashmir was a grave error. “Since the foundation seemed set on its course of action to go ahead with the award – which as a private foundation it is entitled to – I could do just one thing: leave,” Hamid said.
The former employee has said that she took up the matter with her superiors, but “realised very quickly that this was a decision that would not be changed”.
Hamid, a Kashmiri, has been with the Gates Foundation for the last 3.5 years. “Being Kashmiri makes it personal. Eight million of my people have been under an undeclared curfew for 50 days now, with minimal access even to medical care, and there is a humanitarian crisis under way in the valley. The Modi led government has not only designed and implemented this crisis, their untruths and the complicity of a large part of the media means they are also trying to hijack the narrative. Being feted at large international gatherings, and winning awards plays right into that,” she said.
courtesy: thewire.in
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Dentist raped at friend's birthday party in Ranchi, accused on run
Ranchi, Apr 14 (PTI): A dentist from Jamshedpur was allegedly raped by a man after being intoxicated at a birthday party in Jharkhand's Ranchi district, police said on Tuesday.
The incident happened on April 9 when the 25-year-old woman went to a birthday celebration of a male friend at an apartment in the Lalpur police station area, they said.
She was allegedly sexually assaulted by one of the host's friends, they added.
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"We registered an FIR under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) on April 13 based on the survivor's statement. Her medical examination has been conducted. A search is underway for the accused, who is absconding," said Rupesh Kumar Singh, officer in charge of the Lalpur police station.
In her statement, the survivor alleged that she was assaulted after being intoxicated at the party, and subsequently raped.
She hails from Jamshedpur and had been preparing for the entrance test of the Master of Dental Surgery (MDS) in Ranchi, the officer said.
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