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From Nashik to Mumbai: Adivasi students’ protest meets police detentions
Weeks of agitation over tribal hostels and schools culminate in alleged detention of protesters ahead of planned Azad Maidan march
BJP’s election manifesto in Assam promises “corrected” NRC, end of “Love Jihad”
The deeply communal content is all that there is in this ‘Sankalp Patra’ that is otherwise full of old promises that the government has failed to deliver upon in the last five years
TN: Special DGP accused of sexual harassment, suspended
The Madras High Court, monitoring the investigation, had urged the government to take action against the accused
Photo essay: How Chitrakoot Adivasis filed land claims under FRA on Martyr’s Day
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AIUFWP and CJP showcase the painstaking on-ground efforts that have helped create history as claims were filed by women members of the community
UP’s Hindutva goons harass Catholic nuns, teens on Delhi-Orissa train
Police march nuns, teens to police station, release them after more identification papers are sent from Delhi
Jignesh Mevani among those detained outside Gujarat Assembly
The group had gathered to seek justice for Dalit RTI activist Amrabhai Boricha who had been lynched
Gujarat: 16-year-old girl stabbed 32 times for refusing man’s marriage proposal
Congress working president Hardik Patel and NCP leader Reshma Patel questioned the law and order situation in the state
Bombay HC refuses to accept compromise affidavit in a sexual assault case
The Bench noted that the aim and objective of Vishakha guidelines will remain defeated if the complainant is coerced to withdraw her complaint
Plea in SC to allow consensual teenage relationships under POCSO Act
The Act is silent on the aspect where two minor individuals enter into a consensual relationship
Jignesh Mevani calls for gathering on March 23 to demand justice for Amrabhai Boricha
The Dalit RTI activist was hacked to death, allegedly by upper caste men, in his home in Sanodar village of Ghogha taluka in Bhavnagar district earlier this month
Chhattisgarh HC seeks State’s reply over woman’s custodial death
The court has also directed the police to provide the post mortem report to her family
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