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May Day Dramatised
When Safdar Hashmi wrote a play on the centenary of May Day, 1986.
After 15 months in jail, Ishrat Jahan awaits bail: Delhi Violence Case
A lawyer-activist charged under the draconian UAPA, her bail application comes up before the Karkadooma court tomorrow. A timeline of her case under two different FIRs:
Tax raids unleashed on Dainik Bhaskar, Bharat Samachar media groups
Raids at Dainik Bhaskar premises in Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat Maharashtra, Bharat Samachar at Lucknow
Pay heed to Article 21 and its order in the Kanwar Yatra case: SC to Kerala Gov’t
Supreme Court has termed Kerala govt’s three-day relaxation in Covid restrictions due to Bakr Eid alarming, other states issue protocols ahead of festival
No Covid-19 deaths due to oxygen shortage reported by States/UTs: Centre in RS
The Health Ministry said that States and Union Territories have not reported any deaths due to oxygen shortage or inadequate medical infrastructure
No data on witnesses killed, turned hostile: Centre in Lok Sabha
The MoS Home Affairs, has answered in the Lok Sabha that data on witnesses killed is not centrally maintained
Make Right to Health a fundamental right: Oxfam India’s report on unequal healthcare
A detailed and comprehensive analysis, uses data since 2015-16 to understand the persisting issues of health inequalities in India
Pegasus spyware trotting into ministers’ phones, who is next?
In Parliament, IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw dismissed surveillance of journalists, however he too is on the ‘list’ say latest reports
Why are so many people mourning Danish Siddiqui?
The photographs he took showed truth to power, and had empathy with the common man
Malad’s slum-dwellers demand immediate rehabilitation
Trapped within the danger-zone that residents call a “dump,” Ambedkar Nagar residents stage a protest, as Maharashtra CM for homes
Role of RSS & police in communal riots, Aligarh: Parliamentary debates
In the debate held in Lok Sabha in December 1978, former Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi, leader of the opposition Y.B. Chavan, the then Prime Minister Morarji Desai, and many other veteran parliamentarians participated. The PM, Morarji Desai conceded on the floor of the house that U.P. PAC committed excesses against Muslims during 1978 communal riots in Aligarh.
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UP: Women protest installation of prepaid smart electricity metres in several districts
At least ten districts of Uttar Pradesh have witnessed widespread women led protests against the hasty, untested installation of pre-paid smart metres that women claim have been programmed to run fast to “inflate” electricity bills
Minorities
As lynchings “normalise” in ‘New India, a Bihar imam is ‘thrashed, pushed’ from train to die in Bareilly
While the incident reportedly took place on April 26, it took sectional media and social media coverage for the Bareilly police to finally admit that the beating to death of Maulana Tausif Raza Manzari was a targeted attack, not an accident on May 1; his wife provided details of a call to her from the dead cleric where he narrated he was under attack
Gender and Sexuality
Reproductive Autonomy Cannot Be Subordinated to Adoption: Supreme Court allows termination of 7-month pregnancy of minor
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Malegaon 2006 Blast Case: Bombay High Court rejects NIA’s ‘alternate narrative’, holds prosecution built on contradictions and inadmissible evidence
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