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Bihar: Clash between two Durga immersion groups, chaotic mobs vandalise and loot neighbouring Muslim-owned shops

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An individual, identified as Amit Rastogi, allegedly removed the flag of the other procession, resulting in chaos 
Dalit Bahujan Adivasi

Manual Scavenging: Eradicate the practice, ensure effective rehabilitation, scholarship, compensation, uphold dignity and liberty says SC

Tanya Arora -
Supreme Court bench issues detailed directions to the Union and state government to implement the provisions of Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013, conduct necessary surveys, co-ordinate with Commissions
Rights

Manipur High Court: Right to cast vote an integral part of Article 19(1)(a), affirms voters right to know criminal antecedents

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As legal status of the right to vote remains ambiguous, a judicial pronouncement of a constitutional court declaring the same as a fundamental right is the need of the hour
Politics

“Rath Prabharis” to Nodal Officers: Will the Name Change help in depoliticising Bureaucracy?

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The latest incursion by the Modi 2.0 government, in galvanising officers from India’s central administrative service to showcase it’s government schemes, on the eve of five state elections and six months before the 2024 general questions raises serious questions of constitutional proprietary and overreach; as crucially it flags the question on why the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) with its widely eulogised mantle of electoral prowess, would after nine years in power, need this additional crutch!
Secularism

Barabanki prison celebrates the revered month of Ramzan!

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Is it possible to change the dynamics of a prison through religious harmony? Barabanki jail sets a benchmark for such ideals!
Communal Organisations

Hate Offender: BJP state VP, Vikram Pawaskar uses abuse and intimidation against Satara’s Muslims, wants “Hindu Rashtra”

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Accused of organising and stoking violence against Muslims in Satara (August-September 2023), SabrangIndia tracked down BJP’s Vikram Pawaskar. On September 15, as communal conflict was stoked over controversial social media posts in the western Maharashtra town, widespread destruction of minority property, the death of one Muslim man, with several others being injured resulted. Our investigation unearthed a previous history of hate speech that are attributable to this party functionary
Politics

Modi Govt backs down from dubbing IAS Officers ‘Rath Prabharis’, EC notice follows

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Officers have now been instructed to participate in Prime Minister Modi's yatra on November 15 and the union government has backed down from this campaign in the five poll-bound states. Merely stating that these public servants won't be called "rath prabharis" may not work, given the sharp opposition that the government’s plans have been met with; ECI issued a notice to the union government on the issue also yesterday, after a former IAS officer, EAS Sharma lodged a complaint
Labour

Maharashtra: 13 lakh construction workers will be denied Rs 1 mid-day meals from Nov 1

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Mid-day reports that a March 2019 scheme of the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government led by Udhav Thackeray (Shiv Sena) is now being summarily scrapped, without consultation by the Eknath-Shinde-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government
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