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Police detain Adivasi students for second day, force them out of Mumbai
Students who marched from Nashik are denied Azad Maidan protest, prevented from leaving Tilak Bhavan and forcefully transported out of the city
Delhi Govt’s Committee of Peace and Harmony to examine Facebook India’s role in Delhi riots
The Committee of Peace and Harmony talks to two journalists monitoring Facebook’s community standards’ implementation in India, the proceedings were livestreamed
Bengaluru riots coverage: Kannada news media under the scanner
Anti hate-speech group writes to state minorities commission demanding action against errant channels, publications
Book on Delhi’s communal riots to be printed now with right-wing support
Controversial book on the riots gets new publishers, right wing IT teams attack Bloomsbury India for refusing to print one-sided story
Hate content on social media: Corporate and individual responsibility
Does the WSJ expose on FB’s alleged tacit support of the regime’s hate machinery also open doors to a deeper understanding of what led to the Bengaluru riots?
Bloomsbury India withdraws publication of one sided book on Delhi Riots, after outrage
The book claims to tell the ‘Untold Story’, just 6 months after the communal violence, even though matter is subjudice
HJS dubs Narendra Dabholkar ‘Urban Naxal’
Is this a nefarious ploy by right-wing extremists to delegitimise the work of the slain anti-superstition activist, and other rationalists and dissenters?
U’khand HC directs state to look into forest rights claims of Van Gujjars
The court has directed the state to form a committee and come up with a proposal detailing its scope of work by September 28
Women auto-rickshaw drivers struggle to make ends meet during post-lockdown period
Auto-drivers hailed as warriors during the lockdown period continue to suffer from a dearth of adequate wages, lack of family support
Homogenisation critical to rise of majoritarian nationalism: Justice Gautam Patel
In the Asiatic Society’s 27th Smt. Bansari Sheth Memorial Lecture, the Bombay High Court judge explains modern day nationalism
To ban or not to ban: K’taka cabinet yet to decide SDPI-PFI fate
Cabinet says, they still do not have concrete evidence or a police report on the case
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