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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
Shaheen Bagh shooter warmly welcomed, then coldly expelled by BJP
Kapil Baisla Gujjar, who opened fire at Shaheen Bagh was officially welcomed into the BJP, then reportedly sacked after massive public outrage
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Wondering whether the central government will be as open-minded as they are trying to project, farmers formally accept the government's offer to talk on December 30.
Bihar govt repression continues: 10,000 farmers lathi charged in Patna.
Deprived of APMCs years ago, Bihar farmers decry the anti-farmer laws of the Centre and demand the restart of local markets only to suffer lathi-charge by state police.
Farmers lament Centre’s vague and nonspecific letter for talks
Let down by the central government’s unimpressive letter for talks on December 30, farmer leaders assert their demands and discuss future protests
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Centre agrees to meet farmers on December 30, end of stalemate?
Two days after farmer leaders sent their proposal, the central government agrees to talk to farmers on December 30 instead of December 29.
A 2020 Report of Victims of apathy: People of Assam
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Gujarat: Dalit lawyer dies after being assaulted in a casteist attack
Local residents allegedly harassed and verbally abused the 65-year-old lawyer before calling more people to attack him
Advocate dies for farmers’ struggle, leaves behind a note for “Modi, the Dictator”
The farmers movement witnesses its third death by suicide at Tikri border.
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