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Manipur Year 4: Guns Without Justice
Three years into the worst episode of ethnic violence, marked by grave allegations of state failure and complicity, in post-independence India, the central government is preparing to deploy around...
IMF and other global bodies now pushing for better accounting of mineral wealth by governments
After nearly five years of sustained advocacy, organisations succeed in drawing the IMF’s attention towards government mismanagement of natural resource wealth
What caused the massive fire at Rohingya camp in Nuh?
32 Rohingya shanties were gutted in the fire at Nuh, Haryana; this is the third such blaze this year at a Rohingya refugee camp in north India
The What, Where, Why and How of AFSPA
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The law enacted in 1958 aimed at controlling insurgency and cross border militancy, but successive governments at the Centre have been reluctant to withdraw it even after peace is restored.In wake of the Nagaland killings, let us explore how AFSPA gives unbridled power to the armed forces.
No more teenage girls to be forced into marriage in India?
The Union Cabinet’s clearance to raise the legal age of marriage for women from 18 to 21 years has set social media abuzz
Branches of Films Division, two other cinema units will shut down soon
Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament John Brittas had recently written to Anurag Singh Thakur, Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting expressing concerns about the move
Group Captain Varun Singh succumbs to injuries
The sole survivor of the chopper crash that killed CDS Bipin Rawat was being treated for severe burns at a military hospital in Bengaluru
Films Division, NFAI “repositories of a national treasure”, closure is “means to erase”: John Brittas
The MP writes to the I&B Minister expressing concerns on merging Children's Films Society, Films Division, National Films Archive of India and Department of Film Festivals with National Film Development Corporation
Repeal of AFSPA will strengthen spirit of Constitutional democracy: WGHR
Global Human Rights body issues statement in solidarity with Nagaland shooting victims
AFSPA: A colonial remnant of a law in a 75-year-old democracy
In the words of Justice BP Reddy, AFSPA is a sketchy and bald Act, and needs to be repealed. These words from his report of 2005 need to be resounded for the Parliament to pay heed, to understand that a colonial era law is being used to blatantly take away innocent lives and destroy unsuspecting families
Why did right-wing trolls target 17-year-old daughter of Brig Lidder?
On the funeral day of Brigadier Lidder, who was among those killed in the chopper crash, trolls targeted his daughter Aashna, for being ‘woke’
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