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Economic Boycott as Hindu Solidarity: BJP leader Nitesh Rane calls for Muslims to be shut out
HARHAR campaign launch becomes a platform for religious segregation, with Rane urging Hindus to buy only from Hindus and issuing a chilling threat against Muslims attending the Kumbh Mela
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Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt denied temple entry over Kapoor’s 11-year-old interview about eating beef
Ticket sales for their upcoming movie through the roof even though some seers support Bajrang Dal, VHP for stopping them
‘Astonishing’, Need White Paper on Remission in Bilkis Bano: Justice Madan Lokur
The former justice of the Supreme Court says how the remission came about needs to be closely examined.
Nearly 9,000 people participate in signature campaign to demand justice for Bilkis Bano
Feminist groups had sent 8,320 signatures to the Supreme Court Chief Justice on Tuesday; now with 630 new signatures, the tally is now close to 9,000 and growing
Uttar Pradesh: Teacher allegedly breaks Dalit girl’s hand
The alleged abuser is an “upper caste” teacher in a government primary school
Bilkis Bano case: Convicts’ whereabouts unknown even as SC prepares to hear petitions challenging remission of sentences
Meanwhile, lawyer of convicts claims Centre enabled grant of remission of sentences to 11 convicts
Attempt to Destroy Gujarat Riots Legal Trail: Arundathi Roy
The Booker winner condemned the release of 11 rapists of Bilkis Bano while paying tributes to journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh, who was murdered 5 years ago.
Rajasthan: Khap fines rape survivor for failing virginity test
Woman’s family directed to pay Rs 10 lakhs for “purification ceremony”
Members of Ganpati Visarjan procession pay respect to mosque
The procession switched the music from Hindu bhajans to Islamic devotional songs while passing by a mosque
Sikh cricket player dubbed “Khalistani” for dropping catch
Right-wing trolls and even some accounts based in Pakistan used the term
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In Karnataka, during the pandemic and lockdown, mid-day meals in government schools and anganwadis under the National Food Security Act (2013) [1], shut down indefinitely [2,3] amidst growing concerns about how this would affect vulnerable communities. In spite of demands, the state government has not yet undertaken a detailed post pandemic and lockdown survey to identify the immediate and long-term interventions to address and prevent malnutrition. Several visits have been made by civil society organisations, students, nutritionists and academics to different districts of Karnataka, during and after the Covid-19 pandemic and this commentary gives a broad overview of the observations made. There is a need for an in-depth quantitative and qualitative study.
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Delhi SIR: Public audit finds 416 of 1,236 deleted voters still at their registered addresses
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SIR’s elusive illegal immigrants: Bogey Busted but will the injustices heaped be corrected?
Barely 771 “foreign nationals” identified in Karnataka and a miniscule 1,600 in six other Indian states; yet the hysterical bogey of the “ghuspetiya” (illegal immigrant) has been used to render 130 million plus Indian without the right to vote?
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2020 Delhi Riots: Delhi High Court upholds seven-year sentence for five men in 22-year old Muslim migrant worker’s death
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Jamia’s Answer to Student Protest: Online exams, hostel closures and police detentions
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Assam NRC: Seven years after 19 lakh people were excluded, rejection slips remain a non-starter
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