Maktoob journalist Shaheen Abdulla wins Delhi Minorities Commission Award
He received award for ground reports on anti-CAA protests in Uttar Pradesh and Delhi riots
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New Delhi: Maktoob journalist Shaheen Abdulla won the Delhi Minorities Commission (DMC) Award in the print and electronic media category on Monday.
“Shaheen is a committed young journalist of substance and promise,” the award committee said.
Shaheen, a multimedia journalist has been working at Maktoob as Creative Editor for two years. Shaheen’s ground reports on anti-CAA protests in Uttar Pradesh and Delhi riots received the recognition.
Shaheen has directed a documentary on National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam, ‘In a state of doubt’ and the documentary received wide comments and discussion across India.
His reports also appear in Vice, Caravan Magazine, and The Quint among other publications.
Shaheen is also a student of convergent journalism at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.
Qurban Ali (former BBC journalist) columnist and author Humra Quraishi, Mahthab Alam (The Wire) and Aditya Menon (The Quint) also won DMC awards in print and electronic media category.
Since 2018, Delhi Minorities Commission has been giving awards to the best performers among minorities in Delhi in various fields of human endeavour.
The recipients of these awards are selected on the basis of recommendations by DMC advisory and peace committees’ members
and empanelled NGOs.
Activist Teesta Setalvad received a lifetime achievement award by DMC for her outstanding contribution to the human rights in India.
Farah Naqvi, AC Michael, Armeet Singh, Adv Mahmood Pracha and Quill Foundation won DMC awards in human rights category. Adv. Abu Bakr Sabbaq, Reena Charles, Adv. D.S. Bindra, Dr. Anju Jain, Rehab Foundation and Ovais Sultan Khan are among the DMC awardees in the community service category.
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Dalit outfits call state-wide hartal over dental student’s death
Thiruvananthapuram (PTI): Various Dalit organisations on Monday announced a state-wide hartal seeking justice in the death of Kannur Dental College student Nithin Raj.
The hartal will be observed on Tuesday from 6 am to 6 pm.
As many as 52 Dalit organisations, including Justice for Nithin Raj Action Council, have announced the strike.
Organisations requesting cooperation for the strike said that no vehicles will be forcibly stopped and that all essential services are exempted.
Raj, a first-year BDS student at a private dental college in Anjarakkandy in Kannur district, was found critically injured after falling from a building on April 10 and later succumbed to his injuries.
Police have registered a case against two faculty members on charges of abetment of suicide and under provisions of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, following allegations by the student’s family that he was subjected to caste- and complexion-based harassment.
Kerala Pinnokka Samudaya Munnani (KPSM), one of the organisations supporting the hartal, alleged in a statement that police had shown apathy in the investigation and were attempting to protect the accused in the case.
KPSM state president K V Padmanabhan and general secretary S Anwar alleged that the probe into Raj’s death was being deliberately misdirected and delayed.
While the family has firmly alleged that caste discrimination and mental harassment by faculty members led to the student’s death, police were attempting to divert the investigation towards loan app borrowings, they claimed.
The organisation alleged that this was a planned move to shield the real accused.
KPSM further alleged that by deliberately delaying the arrest of the accused teachers, police enabled them to secure anticipatory bail.
They said there was no confidence in the present police investigation and demanded that the case be handed over to an independent agency at the earliest.
