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Scrap SIR, Restore Electoral Integrity: A national call to defend the right to vote

Public assembly demands the scrapping of SIR, accountability of the Election Commission and urgent safeguards against wrongful exclusion from electoral rolls

AP: Violence erupts against renaming district in Ambedkar’s name

Several police officials including Amalapuram’s SP and DSP were injured during the violence

General strike call against inflation and unemployment

Left parties condemned the rising prices during a worsening employment situation in India

Never Ever Forget

A poem about communal violence and those who fuel it

NFHS-5 data busts right-wing myth of Indian vegetarianism

Non-vegetarianism growing in Gujarat, over 50 percent of MP's population eats non-veg food

Indian federalism is a dialogue: SC

Court upholds power of both, Centre and states to legislate on GST; says GST Council regulations not binding on either

Ghulam Muhammad Jaula passes away

The UP farmer leader was a symbol of secularism in the agrarian community

NFIW remembers freedom fighter Sarla Sharma

The veteran workers leader struggled to empower many marginalised women workers in the capital city

Striving for peace in strife-torn Kashmir

Pandits in Anantnag, protesting the killing of Rahul Bhat, question whether this is the new Kashmir Modi is talking about

Protests continue over Kashmiri Pandit’s murder

Protests continued for the seventh day in Kashmir over the killing of PM Package employee Rahul Bhat

West Bengal: ED arrests six, including a Bangladeshi national, living illegally in India

Raids were against Bangladesh nationals for possessing fake Indian identity cards; the arrested Bangladeshi, is accused of defrauding banks of his own country too

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Scrap SIR, Restore Electoral Integrity: A national call to defend the right to vote

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Why Majoritarianism today is the single most acute threat to democracy

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Karnataka: SIR Interrogated

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‘Solidarity Is Not a Crime’: Mumbai activists protest alleged police harassment over Palestine event

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