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

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

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

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

Dalit groom attacked, threatened, and beaten off a horse at his wedding in Gujarat

A group of higher caste men attacked a Dalit man at his wedding and forced him to get off his horse because they did not think Dalits can be allowed to ride horses. The police have arrested four of the accused as of now

Maharashtra Mob Violence: Muslim student and a fruit vendor, forced into chanting ‘Jai Sri Ram’

The police have filed a case against a group of people in Maharashtra’s Parbhani for assaulting a young teenager and then later assaulting a fruit seller within a span of 30 minutes.

Day 3 of Farmers’ Protest: More than 100 farmers injured by rubber bullets, solidarity protests by BKU and SKM in Punjab

Punjab government to bear cost of treatment of those injured, Delhi police order 30,000 tear gas shells; Economist MS Swaminathan asserts that law on MSP is fiscally doable, debunks falsity of Indian economy falling into bankruptcy due to guaranteed MSP

Supreme Court unanimously hold Electoral Bond scheme to be unconstitutional, violative of right to information

The five-judge Constitutional bench has struck down the scheme and the amendments made to the RPA Act, IT Act and the Companies Act; observed the right to privacy donors is important, transparency in political funding cannot be achieved by granting absolute exemptions

Tiruppur district administration breaks down ‘Untouchability Wall’

The revenue department’s takes a step closer to dismantling casteist practices. A demand to bring down the caste wall was advocated by several advocacy groups against untouchability

Protesting farmers spend Basant Panchami facing government’s water cannons and tear gases’ government withholds social media accounts of farm leaders, journalists

Haryana police uses drones to throw tear gas at farmers, Daughter of Professor MS Swaminathan requests government to not treat farmers like criminals while celebrating the Bharat Ratna awarded to her father

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