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Karnataka’s new PRC rules are people-friendly, but will the ECI accept them?
While a sustained and rigorous campaign by anti-SIR activists across Karnataka has pushed the opposition Congress government to issue a fresh set of simplified guidelines for the issuance of Permanent Residency Certificates; the experience of West Bengal however shows that no amount of pro-activeness by any state government influences an ECI functioning under a non-transparent and non-accountable diktat
Huge mismatch between Gujarat’s Covid records and data from crematoria, cemeteries
Despite ranking among the top three states in terms of vaccination drive, the state’s data in terms of Covid-deaths barely accounts for even 10 percent of the actual data presented on-ground.
Odisha CM bats for centralised procurement of vaccines
Naveen Patnaik writes to fellow Chief Ministers highlighting challenges faced by states in dealing with international manufacturers and production constraints of domestic manufacturers
Torture of PDP leader Waheed Para by NIA accuse UN officials
The communication to the government of India has coincided with Jammu and Kashmir police filing a chargesheet against the valley leader in another militancy-related case
No mixing of Covid vaccines allowed yet: Centre
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GDP contracts by 7.3 percent in 2020-21, an all-time low in the last four decades!
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Abba, they took away Maa: CJP reunites a mother and her children in Assam
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Doyjan Bibi becomes the 40th person to be released from a Detention Camp on conditional bail with CJP’s help
A misguided attempt to revive Coal
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The Centre had passed an order on May 28 asking Alapan Bandyopadhyay to report to Delhi on May 31 by 10 A.M
Did Marx’s grandson endorse Savarkar’s Hindutva ideology?
A look at RSS's attempts to legitimise problematic stands taken by their favourite leaders by claiming they were endorsed by world-renowned thinkers
US Government lambasts India on Freedom of Religion
India is one of the very few democracies in the world today which pays scant attention to the religious freedom of her people – almost on par with dictatorial regimes
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