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Selective & discriminatory, CAA notification likely to be followed by NPR-NRC

teesta setalvad - March 12, 2024

Since the time that the intent of what became the CAA Amendment of 2019 was conceived and found its way into the BJP’s 2014 manifesto, its intent has been divisive and exclusionary; the threats issued time and again by the minister for home affairs that CAA 2019 would follow a “chronology” –All India NPR and NRC—made the intent worse; insecurity and social upheavals will be the result of this cynical diktat

Farm and Forest

Four-hour long ‘Rail roko’ protest held by farmers on tracks across Punjab, participation from farmer unions associated with SKM

sabrangindia - March 12, 2024

Another death of protesting farmer reported, seventh since the beginning of the protest

Communalism

Anti-constitutional, bereft of humanity & religiously bigoted: CAA 2019 is now enforced in India

Shamsul Islam - March 12, 2024

Not only are the Balochis and Ahmadiyas from Pakistan abandoned under this skewed law, but so are Uyghur Muslims of China and Tamil Hindus or Sri Lanka

Farm and Forest

Déjà vu, a film that depicts the chilling effects of corporate-contract farming, resonates with Indian farmer’s protests

sabrangindia - March 12, 2024

The film, inspired by the 2020-2021 Indian farmers protest against the now repealed three contentious farm laws offers viewers a unique insight; it explains how MSP is nothing but a levelling of urban & rural incomes at no cost to the consumer; director, Bedabrata Pain and two others drove over 10,000 kilometres, at the height of the pandemic, through the food bowl of America, capturing the heart-wrenching accounts of American farmers who became victims of the “mind-set of the market” 40 years ago.

Children

Class 3 student threatens to kill Muslim classmate in Gujarat

sabrangindia - March 12, 2024

On February 17th in Vadodara, Gujarat, an 8-year-old student studying in class 3 was targeted and reportedly abused by his fellow classmates. Reports suggest that similar incidents of discrimination have happened in the school earlier as well.

Politics

Supreme Court rejects SBI plea for extension in electoral bond case, pulls up the bank for the delay

Legal Researcher - March 12, 2024

Rejecting the extension application of SBI the SC has ordered the bank to disclose the details of electoral bonds, including donor and party details, by 12 March

Communalism

Karnataka: Muslim girl asked to not wear hijab to school, after students protested wearing saffron shawls

sabrangindia - March 11, 2024

The hijab ban continues to evoke student protests against Muslim girls wearing the hijab, as a recent case from a private college in Karnataka reveals a girl wearing a hijab was told to remove it after students protested against her wearing the head covering.

Rule of Law

Two cops dismissed for negligence of duty after 3 Muslims, one officer were shot dead by RPF officer

sabrangindia - March 11, 2024

Two Railway Police Force constables have been dismissed in the case of hate killings by an RPF officer where 3 Muslims and one RPF officer were gunned down in a train in July 2023.

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