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3 cr trees, 6 lakh acres and the Green Revolution | NL interview with Peepal Baba

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By Basant Kumar
| Newslaundry Verified
Governments in India routinely boast about planting crores of saplings in plantation drives, but how many actually survive? In Uttar Pradesh, for example, record-breaking daily targets are proudly announced although ground reports end up exposing how vast numbers of those saplings wither away within days. Against this backdrop stands Swami Prem Parivartan, popularly known as ‘Peepal Baba’. For over four decades, he claims to have planted more than three crore Peepal saplings across six lakh acres.
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July 20 crackdown: One DCP approved pellets, another authorised firearms

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By Prateek Goyal, Basant Kumar
| Newslaundry Verified
A document seen by Newslaundry shows that a Deputy Commissioner of Police, acting with the powers of an Executive Magistrate, authorised the Rapid Action Force to use tear gas, lathi charge and firearms against protesters at Jantar Mantar on July 20. This document is separate from a general diary entry at Parliament Street police station, reported earlier by The Hindu, which recorded a second officer of DCP rank authorising the use of the pellet gun against the same protest.
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‘Today is your last day’: Nearly 120 staff shown the door at India Today

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By Basant Kumar
| Newslaundry Verified
“Today is your last day. Please submit your resignation.” That, according to Anmol Kumar Mahto*, is what he was told last Wednesday, about an hour before his shift ended at the TV Today Network Limited office in Noida’s Sector 16. He had spent two years on the Hindi website team. He says he was called to a ground-floor cabin where his manager and an HR representative, Babita, were waiting.
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