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Bengali Migrant Workers Detained in Odisha: Calcutta High Court demands answers, seeks coordination between states
Court poses six pointed questions on detention of Sainur Islam and demands answers from Odisha over detention of youth during ‘identification drive’; Court directs West Bengal to appoint nodal officer
Safai Karamchari Andolan campaigns against dry latrines
100-day campaign aims to end the unfair burden on Dalit women
Garbage piles up in Ahmedabad, as sanitation workers strike work
Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s sanitation workers strike has entered its fifth day today
A 2020 Report of 10 Worst Victims of Apathy: India’s Migrant Workers
How the unplanned and sudden lockdown led to chaos, suffering and even death
India yet to ratify the Convention on Migrant workers
As the migrant numbers in India have tripled over the years, it is yet to accede to the international treaty
41 Orgns call for workers unions to join farmers protest
Over 41 networks and organisations from the unorganised sector have demanded a withdrawal of the three anti-farmer laws and for larger workers unions to join the mass protest
Wistron Factory Vandalism: Karnataka Gov’t registers FIR against 7,000 employees
Karnataka State IT/ITes Employee Union, and other organisations have condemned the criminal charges pressed against the contract workers
Wistron Factory violence: AICCTU blames State and management for exploitation
Compulsory 12-hour shifts, delay and non-payment of wages, no grievance redressal mechanism, night shifts for women are just some instances that pushed helpless workers to a point of desperation
Jharkhand: Unpaid for 9 months, Pakur forest labourers move HC
The PIL has been filed by a forest range officer who wrote several letters to authorities demanding the workers’ salaries
Meghalaya sets stringent guidelines for migrant workers
Cabinet approves draft rules as per recently passed law to check influx of migrant labourers
Manual Scavengers Act: Karnataka HC issues directions over implementation
The court noted that manual scavenging is most inhuman and that it infringes the fundamental rights guaranteed under Article 21
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On Monday, August 18, Samajwadi Party (SP) national president and former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, Akhilesh Yadav alleged widespread, evidence driven, voter discrepancies in voters lists of the state, also stating that his party had approached the ECI about these in 2022, soon after the state assembly polls but which had been simply ignored by the poll body. He was joined later in the day by SP leader Ram Gopal Yadav who questioned the motives of the government and ECI while further detailing these gross irregularities and illegalities in Adityanath-ruled UP
Communal Organisations
Indian tricolour & the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
RSS-BJP rulers have called upon Indians to unfurl Tricolour, our national flag on the eve of 79th Independence Day of India. In RSS-BJP ruled states this is now a “must” for madrasas and some Mosques.
Rule of Law
Caste and community creations of human beings, God is always neutral: Madras HC
If a temple is permitted to be visited by the general public, it assumes the character of a public temple, irrespective of the caste or community of the devotees, they must be permitted to offer their prayers to God, every Hindu irrespective of the caste or sect to which he belongs to, shall be entitled to enter any Hindu temple and offer worship therein – Madras High Court
Minorities
New Magnificent Churches Built Under Islamic Rule In Its Early Centuries
There is a general impression among both the Muslims and the Christians that Islam does not permit construction of churches or house of worship for other faith communities.
India
99.8% of 65 lakh voter deletions go unchallenged on 13th day of objection period
After 65 lakh names were deleted from the SIR draft roll, the ECI received 74,525 new voter applications—an average of 306 electors per assembly constituency in 13 days, only 0.2% of deletions drew objections with 99.8% unchallenged and zero claims & objection from political parties
India
Palghar, Maharashtra: One woman voter in six locations, DEO, ERP and BLO common!!
Interestingly, a perusal of the rolls by the CHRI, after AltNews flagged the multiple presence of Sushama Gupta in Palghar, shockingly revealed that the District Election Officer(DEO), Govind Bobde, the Electoral Registration Officer (ERO), Shekhar Ghadge and the Booth Level Officer(BLO),Ms. Pallavi Sawant are named against all these entries in all locations