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Under PM Modi India’s democracy slid to autocracy: Human Rights Watch

sabrangindia - January 12, 2024

The latest report released the Human Rights Watch has criticised India’s government for not protecting the rights of minorities and has presented a detailed list of accounts from issues concerning press freedom, sexual abuse, and the ethnic conflict in Manipur.

Communalism

Is the Congress anti-Hindu or anti Hindutva?

teesta setalvad - January 12, 2024

On January 10, 2024, the ‘grand old party’, the Congress, finally declined to attend the inauguration of the Ram Temple at Ayodhya on January 22, stating the blatant politicisation of religion and state behind the event as its reason, in its rather belated and vacillating response. Now, with the BJP attacking this move, the Congress has gone all out to counter the BJP’s ‘anti-Hindu’ slur

Secularism

Heartrending tales of communal harmony amidst polarised times

sabrangindia - January 12, 2024

Narratives of violence and political polarisation are rife in the news, however are all ordinary Indians hostile to interfaith interactions? These incidents remind us that they are not.

Education

UP: High school girls’ viral letter to DM, ‘No Library, Computers, or Even Blackboards…’

Satya Prakash Bharti - January 12, 2024

The letter from students that has gone viral exposes deplorable conditions at the government High School, Raitpur in Aligarh district.

Rule of Law

Delhi HC: Foreigners cannot claim right to reside and settle in India, protections limited to Article 21

sabrangindia - January 12, 2024

In a habeas corpus plea moved against restriction of movement of an alleged foreigner, the bench noted that foreign national cannot claim that he has right to reside and settle in India in terms of Article 19 (1) (e)

India

Rendered homeless in Delhi winter, yet ‘no plan’ to increase shelters for the victims

Bharat Dogra - January 12, 2024

Increasing cold weather conditions have led to many vulnerable people remaining indoors as far as possible in Delhi. The pollution of the city mixed with fog and cold weather has also prompted those having vulnerable health conditions to avoid going out particularly in night and early morning.

Violence

Manipur braces for tension as governments mull stripping ST status from Kuki and Chin tribes

sabrangindia - January 11, 2024

Concerted moves by both the union government and the Biren Singh-led state government to “review” (if not divest) the “Nomadic Chin-Kuki” tribes from the list of Scheduled Tribes (STs) in the state has generated concern and real fears of the re-escalation of a violent conflict

Dalit Bahujan Adivasi

Dalit scientist at top science institute threatens fast unto death after harassment

sabrangindia - January 11, 2024

A Dalit scientist at the CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory in Maharashtra’s Pune has come forward talking about facing discrimination based on caste and harassment at the institute. She has also asserted that she was denied promotion due to her caste.

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