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Stark abdication by an absent state, paucity of basic necessities & poor, unhygienic conditions in relief camps: Manipur

A team of Karwan-e-Mohabbat visited five relief camps to assess the humanitarian crisis and highlight the suffering and demands of the internally displaced in Manipur; report makes recommendations for state and union governments and citizens groups to step forward to heal the wounds inflicted

Madras Bar Association urges return to original names of India’s criminal laws: Bharatiya Nyaya Samhita

In a resolution passed at the an extraordinary general body meeting of the Madras Bar Association, advocates have claimed that the names of the three newly introduced bills on criminal laws violates the spirit of the Constitution of India

No evidence of religious violence in Manipur’: US-based right-wing think tank

Dismissive of any “evidence of religion-based violence in Manipur”, a US-based India-centric, clearly right-wing think tank has said in a report, listing historical baggage, inter-tribes distrust, fear of economic impacts, drugs and insurgency among the factors responsible. Taking this denial further, the report has not ruled out “foreign interference” behind the conflict

The ‘Fascist BJP, Down’ slogan not an offence: Madras HC quashes FIR against academic

Five years ago, in 2018, research scholar Lois Sofia had raised the slogan at the Thoothukudi airport and in a flight which had Tamilisai Soundararajan, who is now governor of Telangana and Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry, and was then TN BJP chief.

Asserting the principle of federalism, Kerala CM releases revised textbooks restoring chapters removed by NCERT

CM Pinarayi Vijayan flags bias in new national curriculum, reintroduces chapters on Mughals, assassination of Gandhi.

SC transfers CBI cases related to Manipur violence to Assam, asks Gauhati HC CJI to choose trial judges

The Supreme Court on Friday said the trial in the Manipur violence cases being probed by the CBI will take place in neighbouring Assam and asked the Chief Justice of the Gauhati High Court to nominate one or more judicial officers to deal with the matters.

While Modi plays the OBC card, backward castes & Adivasis remain excluded from Central University

The premier educational institutes of the country continue to exclude marginalised communities. According to the latest figures, the constitutionally-mandated reservation policies are not fully implemented in 45 central universities. 

Duty of GOI to ensure that innocent fishermen are not punished: SC

The perennial tragedy of innocent fishworkers from India and Pakistan, being punished and jailed, for no crime but that they, by virtue of their work, sometimes enter the other country’s water space, has not been effectively mitigated for decades; the SC however dismissed the petition since it involves another country outside its jurisdiction

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