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Operation Samadhan-Prahar & the Changing Nature of Indian State

Operation Samadhan-Prahar is a relatively new initiative of the union government of India, propagated as an effort to “combat Maoist insurgency in the tribal...

Did the RSS want Partition? An interview with Dr DR Goyal for Communalism Combat, October 1994

In this interview for Communalism Combat, 29 years ago, Dr DR Goyal, a member of the organization in his youth explains why he left and how poisonous RSS propaganda accelerated the movement for Pakistan

Amidst Strong Opposition, Tamil Nadu Withholds Factories Act

Trade unions held spontaneous protests in many parts of the state against amendments to the Factories Act. The meeting of all trade unions gave a call for strike on May 12.

Trees felled in Aarey at 5am amidst heavy police deployment

This move comes as a result of permission being granted by the Supreme Court to the MMRCL to fell 177 tress

Earthly Birthday Greetings to Stan Swamy in Heaven

Dear Stan, It is your birthday today here on earth! You would have completed eighty-six years, if you were around. Well, thatwas not to be; onJuly 5. 2021 you were murdered by a brutal and fascist regime, which...

Kajal Hindustani booked by Vashi police for delivering anti-Muslim hate speech on February 26

The FIR has been filed by Maharashtra Salokha Samiti, sections 153A, 153B, 295A and 505 of the IPC have been invoked

Sajjad Nomani says girls should not be allowed to go to college alone

He spoke in a video uploaded on his Facebook page, speaking about Quran during Ramzan

P Sainath to march with Farmers from Akole to Loni in Ahmednagar district: Maharashtra

The march, led by intellectuals like P Sainath and others will start from Akola and be be taken to the Loni office of Revenue and Dairy Development Minister Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil.

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