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

sabrangindia - August 25, 2023

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

Violence

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

sabrangindia - August 25, 2023

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

Freedom

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

sabrangindia - August 25, 2023

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.

Education

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

sabrangindia - August 25, 2023

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

Rule of Law

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

sabrangindia - August 25, 2023

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.

Dalit Bahujan Adivasi

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

ABHAY KUMAR - August 25, 2023

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.

Labour

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

sabrang - August 25, 2023

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

Communalism

Hate Speech targeting minorities continue nationwide, from Daman to Delhi

sabrangindia - August 25, 2023

Multiple incidents of derogatory and dehumanising hate speech towards Muslims reported across India.

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