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Religious Freedom: How the USCIRF continues to designate India as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC)
For another year running, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), in its 2026 Annual Report, has in strong recommendations, urged the US government to designate India as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC), “for engaging in and tolerating systematic, ongoing, and egregious religious freedom violations, as defined by the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA)”
First they came for the farmers, now they come for the workers
Lok Sabha passes three labour bills dressed up as ‘reforms’ , but will dilute workers’ rights more
Stranger things: Walkouts, night vigils and intermittent fasting in the Parliament
Rajya Sabha members are batting for farmer’s rights, but law minister wants them to “apologise” before suspension is revoked
Gov’t admits that over 1 crore migrant labourers returned home on foot!
After failing to report data on migrant workers deaths and many frontline warriors of the pandemic Centre now suddenly talks about the number of migrant workers who returned home
Oppn boycotts Lok Sabha over farm Bills, Dharna by suspended MPs on
An all night dharna by the suspended Rajya Sabha MPs also received widespread support
Crores allocated for upliftment of manual scavengers remain unused: Lockdown impact?
The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment tells Parliament that the scheme for manual scavenging prevention and rehabilitation is not applicable to those sanitation workers who are not identified as manual scavengers.
MHA: Over 200 still detained under PSA in J&K
This ministry also said Covid measures were running smoothly with 2G internet in response to two questions asked in Lok Sabha
Tablighi Jamaat event caused coronavirus to spread to ‘many persons’: MHA
Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy also told Rajya Sabha that Delhi Police arrested 233 TJ members, evacuated 2,361 people from its HQ
Over 18,000 granted citizenship in India, many from Bangladesh and Pakistan: MHA
Ministry produces the number of people who were granted Indian citizenship in the last five years
KPSS’s fast-unto-death begins in Srinagar
Kashmiri Pandit Sangharsh Samiti had sent multiple communications to government demanding rights of non-migrant Kashmiri Pandits
The era of the SC’s glorious jurisprudence has vanished: Justice AP Shah
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