sabrang

Stop backdoor entry of private players in Railway Production Units: Open letter to CAG

sabrangindia - February 17, 2024

Hidden subsidies to the private sector who will manufacture coaches at a much higher cost will be a drain on the public excehquer

Dalit Bahujan Adivasi

To include or exclude: process of including a Community in SC or ST list

A Legal Researcher - February 17, 2024

Established procedures and a collective assessment by the statutory NCSC and NCST Commissions, RGI is needed before the union government may accept a proposal for inclusion sent by any state government

India

Manipur conflict continues as two killed and many injured after protest

sabrangindia - February 17, 2024

Two killed and numerous injured after the Kuki-Zo community protests against what the call as the ‘unfair’ dismissal of a Kuki-Zo head constable.

Labour

NREGA’s ‘slow death’: Continued budget cuts, poor wage rates, technical complexities

CounterView - February 17, 2024

Rural workers from several States, participating in a public hearing organised in Jharkhand, have regretted that the Union Government's rural jobs guarantee scheme is...

Farm and Forest

Bharat Bandh: Nationwide strike by farmers sees highways blocked, toll plazas opened up, rallies held

sabrangindia - February 16, 2024

The call for the strike had been raised by SKM and trade unions to support the ongoing ‘Chalo Delhi’ protest by farmers, highlight the unfulfilled promises of the union government

Communalism

Haldwani minorities fear deaths to be higher than official figures, narrate tales of police brutality & complicity: Fact-finding report

sabrangindia - February 16, 2024

Several testimonies before the fact-finding team narrated the administration’s targeted attack on the evening of February 8, when officers arrived with bulldozers, sanitation workers and large police “protection” to demolition the mosque and madrasa “despite the matter being sub-judice;” today, Haldwani’s Banbhoolpura area suffers in silence as connectivity is cut with the outside world

India

Policing & Profiling Citizens: Using Aadhar data to create an NPR, profiling Christians?

sabrangindia - February 16, 2024

An accelerated pace in using Aadhar data meant for one purpose to create a National Population Register (NPR) which is the first step towards an all India National Register of Citizens (NRC) appears to have been undertaken, since 2015 with 119.34 crore Indians being listed thus without informed consent, a citizens investigation reveals; besides, selective profiling of Christians in pars of Mumbai, Mira Road, Thane are also concerning

Farm and Forest

Day 4 of Farmer Protest: Excessive state force at protestors leads to death of elderly farmer, first death to be reported as of now

sabrangindia - February 16, 2024

The third meeting between the farmer leaders and the union ministers yielded no result, ministers assured ceasefire till talks are taking place; more than 100 farmers have been injured till now, three lost vision due to pellets

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In a strongly worded letter to Prime Minister, Narendra Modi and Maharashtra Chief Minister, Devendra Fadnavis, V.D. Satheesan, Congress leader of the opposition Kerala Assembly has sought urgent intervention regarding the detention/arrest of twelve individuals, including Father Sudhir, a priest of the CSI South Kerala Diocese, arrested by the Maharashtra Police following a complaint filed by Bajrang Dal activists

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West Bengal: SIR unravelled

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Multiple reports of serious anomalies in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process being unilaterally conducted by the Election Commission of India (ECI) in West Bengal have come to light; exclusion of Matuas, immigrants from erstwhile east Bengal, is only one of them

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