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‘Forum for Electoral Integrity’ petitions NHRC over mass voter disenfranchisement under SIR

The Forum for Electoral Integrity has petitioned the National Human Rights Commission to urgently intervene in the Election Commission’s SIR process, citing UN concerns, the coalition alleges the arbitrary, mass deletion of 52 million voters, disproportionately targeting Muslim and Bengali citizens through organised campaigns and opaque AI systems

Pay five-months salary or we stop work: JNU sanitation workers 

Members of the AICCTU condemned the college authorities for failing to pay employee dues as well as failing to provide them basic necessities such as identity cards 

Gradual, unannounced but continuous dismantling of Constitutional mechanisms since 2014:Anuradha Bhasin

The Executive Editor of Kashmir Times delivered the 40th JP Memorial Lecture

Chhattisgarh: 5 police personnel killed, 14 injured in alleged Maoists attack

Victims were travelling in a bus Kadenar and Kanhargaon villages, and were hit by an improvised explosive device

Bom HC: Two petitions filed seeking probe into corruption allegations against Maha gov’t 

Both petitions seeks independent probe into corruption allegations by Mumbai’s ex-top cop against the Home Minister

Martyrdom Day brings together Jawaans and Kisans

Farmer leaders thank young leaders and participants for supporting the country’s peasants by promising solidarity to the movement

No Bharat Ratna for Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, Please!

Demands are often made to the government for posthumous conferment of India’s highest civilian honour upon Dr. Lohia

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Centre directs Uttarakhand to follow stringent SOPs during Kumbh Mela, state CM, LS speaker test positive

Saradha scam: CBI raids six locations in Mumbai

Raids at homes and offices of SEBI officials connected with the Ponzi scheme that rocked West Bengal; timing curious as polling begins in a few days

India seals all entry points along Myanmar border

Mizoram CM Zoramthanga holds virtual meet with Myanmar’s Foreign Minister, had also written to PM Modi asking political refugees be given asylum 

Nearly 20,000 women prisoners in India: Centre tells RS

The available data from the year 2019 states that 22,456 CCTV cameras have been installed in various jails of the country

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‘Forum for Electoral Integrity’ petitions NHRC over mass voter disenfranchisement under SIR

The Forum for Electoral Integrity has petitioned the National Human Rights Commission to urgently intervene in the Election Commission’s SIR process, citing UN concerns, the coalition alleges the arbitrary, mass deletion of 52 million voters, disproportionately targeting Muslim and Bengali citizens through organised campaigns and opaque AI systems

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