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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

Fodder scam: Lalu Prasad Yadav gets bail in Chaibasa Treasury case

Jharkhand HC granted bail to the vetran politician accused in a case of fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 35.62 crore from Chaibasa Treasury in the early 1990s. But Yadav remains in jail in connection with another case

Kolkata group organises drive to gift sarees to women from low-income neighbourhoods

Organisation hopes to gift new sarees to 500 women who work in the unorganised sector and have been hit hard by the economic crisis 

Fr. Stan Swamy’s arrest malicious and spiteful: PUCL

The 83-year-old human rights defender was picked up by the NIA from Ranchi in connection with the Bhima Koregaon case yesterday

Republic TV, two others accused of TRP fraud

Mumbai police will summon Arnab Goswami, other accused for questioning

Ex-CBI Chief Ashwini Kumar found dead in Shimla

He was found hanging by his family in what is being perceived as death by suicide

Contemporary artists raise key questions about freedom of speech and expression

Artists Poojan Sahil and Vijay Pandey talk about protest culture, current government and dissent in India.

UP government gives in, decides against privatising electricity sector

Government relents to the pressure from electricity employees and engineers who opposed privatisation of electricity distribution.

Rajasthan PUCL defends free speech of local journalists

The people’s organisation demanded that the state stay complaints against two journalists arrested recently on trumped up charges of spreading 'fake news'

Countrywide protest in support of socially backward sections on October 13!

CITU, AIKS and AIAWU call for nationwide strike in light of growing violence against marginalised sections.

Indian Civil Society is being Murdered!

CIVICUS report slams India for judicial harassment of activists, journalists, and protesters

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