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Theirs & ours, how Indian cities discriminate against Dalits & Muslims

Forced ghettoisation due to stigma is worsened by an iniquitous access and distribution of public services for Muslims and Dalits in Indian cities, an international study reveals

Protests erupt over ECI’s new delimitation draft in Assam which is embroiled in controversy

The delimitation exercise by the ECI, delayed from 2008, finds strong critics arguing vociferously against it stating that basic guidelines have been given the go by and older data, not the 2011 census used as its basis; moreover it is not just the Muslim minority but indigenous peoples who will be adversely impacted.

SIT should probe lynchings, compensation for families: MPCC working chief

Mumbai: Maharashtra Congress working president Naseem Khan on Monday demanded setting up of a special investigation team to probe into the recent incidents of mob lynching...

“We only resisted intervention of police, expelling of students…,” suspended SAU professors

The institute has been in the news for targeting students and now faculty

Vanishing villages depict struggle of erosion-affected families, impact migration: Assam

For so many like 80-year-old Ziad Ali erosion and displacement have been a mental trauma. The octogenarian has been displaced a dozen times as Beki river’s destructive current has eroded Rasulpur village in Barpeta district almost every flood season “, especially since 2004”. Despite the existence of erosion benefit schemes (2021) these have not reached Barpeta district.

Karnataka HC: Proceedings against Pramod Muthalik for delivering offensive statement quashed

The Bench noted lack of recording of independent eyewitness statements, no data to substantiate that accused made inflammatory statements as reasons

Animal husbandry minister not consulted on contentious livestock bill, RSS affiliate BKS claims

The said bill, which included the word 'bovine' in the definition of animal products, has now been withdrawn

Maharashtra celebrated Shahu Maharaj’s message of social justice, harmony: Kolhapur, Pimpri-Chinchwad

In Kolhapur, where communal violence had been thrust by mobilisation of elected representatives of the BJP and right-wing elements, a procession of several thousand send out message of communal harmony

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