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Hindi speakers’ take-over of Mumbai? Bihar Bhavan allowed on prime Mumbai Port trust land!
In a controversial decision by the now ‘four engine sarkar’, prime port trust land at Elephant Estate has been reportedly been sanctioned for the ‘Bihar Bhavan’ in Maharashtra’s capital of Mumbai; this decision has drawn huge flak from Marathi speakers and protests are likely to follow; to be built at the cost of Bihar’s tax payers, this is also part of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s plant of a proto fascist, “Hind-Hindi-Hindustan.” One language, One Faith, One Nation
PM Narendra Modi names August 14 “Partition Horrors Remembrance Day”
Pak Rangers-India’s Border Security Force (BSF) exchange sweets at Attari-Wagah border to mark Pakistan’s Independence Day
No confidence in the Modi regime: Kisan Sansad
Hundreds of thousands hit the streets during Aug 9 the farmers’ struggle; Kisan Sansad adopts a ‘No Confidence’ Motion against the Modi regime
22 children of foreign nationals living in Assam Detention Camps!
The children are living with their mothers - nine women who are believed to hail from Myanmar and Bangladesh - lodged in three out of six detention camps
The Haziness of Transparency
The need is for urgent and energetic political search for a practical democratic resolution with sincere participation of ALL the people
We must act NOW to defend democracy!
The need to defend democracy, especially in wake of Fr. Stan Swamy’s institutional murder, is perhaps felt today, as never before
Undaunted by temple attack, Pakistani Hindu stuck in India, wants to go home
A Pakistani Hindu man, stranded in India with his three children after his wife died in April, is pleading with the authorities to let him return to Pakistan before his country’s Independence Day on August 14
Gujarat: Six people forced to dip fingers in boiling oil to prove innocence
The virtual trial by fire in Gujarat’s Kutch region was based on the belief that an innocent will not be burnt by hot oil
‘NEP Quit India’ campaign begins
Students and teachers collectives share AIFRTE’s letter rejecting the policy, take to social media to voice their concerns
Bhima Koregaon case: NIA files draft charges under UAPA, sedition & conspiracy against 15 accused
Filing of draft charges against the accused indicates that the trial could begin anytime soon. However, the lawyers of some of the accused have asked the court to dispose the applications before it, prior to framing charges
No decision on nationwide NRC yet: MHA tells Parliament
The Ministry responded to quite a few questions related to CAA, NRC and NPR during the monsoon session of Parliament, and has reiterated that no definite date for initiating Census process has been decided but it is certain that NPR will be updated
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Publicly Tortured, Forced to Eat Cow Dung: No arrests in Odisha Pastor assault case
More than two weeks after a Hindutva mob assaulted and humiliated Pastor Bipin Bihari Naik in Dhenkanal, police inaction and a counter-FIR against the victim raise serious questions about justice and religious freedom
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J & K: Attempt to muzzle FoE, Media? Police summons to media, journalists
The peremptory, even extra-legal summons to four journalists from national publications has drawn outrage; the repressive action, clearly an action of intimidation, is aimed at those who have reported on a controversial move by the J & K administration and police to collect information on Mosques etc in the union territory
Dalit Bahujan Adivasi
50,000 strong Adivasi, farmers march from Charoti to Palghar, hold indefinite dharna for land rights
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Citizenship restored! CJP scores another big win in Assam for Mazirun Bewa, a widowed daily wage worker
After years of fear and stigma, Mazirun Bewa finally declared Indian by birth — thanks to CJP’s tireless fight against arbitrary “foreigner” tags
Rights
Citizens move to stop privatisation of Mumbai’s Public Hospitals
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Counting the Caged: What India’s prison data refuses to see
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World
A Conversation About Israel That Felt Uncomfortably Familiar
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