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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

Kashmir: Four killed in Hyderpora gunfight

IGP Kashmir says civilian was "militant associate", family denies charge

When will Indian fishworkers be assured of their safety on high seas?

National Fishworkers Forum India, Pakistan India Peoples’ Forum for Peace & Democracy condemn firing on Indian fishworkers by Pakistan’s maritime security agency

UP: Mid-day meal cooks get Rs. 7,500 but three months salary still pending

Varanasi’s local authorities say they could only pay five months of mid-day meal cooks’ salaries with the funds they received

Why did Times Now give a platform to communal, seditious statements?

Times Now Summit 2021 allows Kangana Ranaut to say independence was ‘alms’, Himanta Biswa Sarma to say ‘India belongs to Hindus’

No Koli voices in the planning of coastal road project: Mumbai’s fisherfolk

Worli’s Koli community appeals to the BMC to heed the request of a wider navigation span

Will Haryana Chief Minister listen to Padma Shri wrestler’s silent demand?

Hearing impared international level wrestler Virender Singh is sitting on protest with his Padma award, asking the Manohar Lal Khattar led Haryana gov't to give deaf athletes their due

Hundreds mourn Srinagar resident Mohammad Ibrahim Khan

Khan was a salesperson at a shop owned by a Kashmir Pandit and was shot dead, allegedly by militants, on Monday evening, the second such killing in 24 hours

More skeletons tumble out of the Rafale closet

French portal Mediapart reveals how Dassault paid huge bribes but the CBI failed to investigate the alleged kickbacks despite having documentary evidence!

Will the US tag India a ‘country of particular concern’?

Recommendation by USCIRF timed in anticipation of the State Department’s announcement about the CPC and Special Watch List (SWL) designations

Assam: Flood renders them homeless, FT questions their citizenship

Families forced to live by the roadside after their huts were washed away by floods, now struggle to prove their citizenship

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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

Why Majoritarianism today is the single most acute threat to democracy

Majoritarianism that plagues India and many other democracies is the perversion of Dr. Ambedkar’s idea of democracy. While Dr. Ambedkar’s definition of democracy lays stress on effective and proportionate representation and safeguarding minority rights, majoritarianism is the dominance of a particular religious community, caste group, or racial group over the rest of the population.

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‘Free the Temple’, ‘Protect the Faith’, ‘Take Up Weapons’: How September’s festivals became stages for anti-Muslim hate

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Karnataka: SIR Interrogated

A report, The SIR Investigation Report—A Narrative of Betrayal and Tears was released by the Anti-SIR Alliance and the Citizens’ Vote Protection Committee today; the report documents the (mal) implementation of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Karnataka

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

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