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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)”
Shrey Hospital Fire: The curious case of the missing phones
It is bad enough that eight people died in the fire that broke out in the ICU, but now it turns out their phones may have been taken away before the fire
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Most dangerous thing is the death of our dreams: Pash (9 September 1950 – 23 March 1988)
Had he lived, written his poems of resistance in India today, he would have been called an “urban naxal’, jailed like Varavara Rao, or gunned down like Gauri Lankesh.
Bail to 21 accused of violence in anti-CAA protests in Mangaluru: SC
Image Courtesy:thehindu.comThe Supreme Court Wednesday granted bail to 21...
Centre’s plan to privatise PSUs an anti-people policy: AITUC
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Men lynched by mobs, cab driver killed by passengers in UP
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SBI VRS scheme penny-wise and pound-foolish: AIBEA official
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Shrey Hospital case: Victims’ families demand CBI inquiry
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Actor Rhea Chakraborty arrested by NCB, but the TV media trail continues to bay for blood
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