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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

“Fighting rail privatisation is a battle for universal access to reasonable travel and employment”: NRMU Gen Secy Venu Nair

Speaking to Sabrang India’s PriyankaKavish, Nair explained the manifold problems that will come with the government’s decision of railway privatisation

Journalists’ unions call for peaceful media protest on July 9, Press Rights Day

In the wake of Covid19 thousands of media persons have been sacked, and scores are being harassed and charged under various laws.

Poverty alleviation requires revision of Poverty Line

How the World Bank’s model is flawed and has kept us from making any meaningful progress in lifting people out of poverty

Fishing for trouble, or troubling the fishworkers?

A Draft National Fisheries Policy has been made public even as the fishworkers continue to struggle in the pandemic

Inquiry demanded to probe journalist’s death at AIIMS

DB's Tarun Sisodia had allegedly died by suicide in Delhi on Monday

Did Hindutva extremists mobilise rioters in NE Delhi in February?

Chargesheets accessed by various media houses show that the members of a Whatsapp group 'Kattar Hindu Ekta' talked about killing minorities and making them chant Jai Shri Ram

J&K Police Dy. SP Devender Singh was “being groomed” by Pakistani officials: NIA 

Chargesheet reveals Devender Singh sheltered terrorists, used his personal vehicle for their movement, and “assured them help in procuring weapons”.

Save country & constitution from the current govt: PB Sawant

In a call to all progressive lawyers, Justice PB Sawant says that the powers that be are inimical to the Indian Constitution that is a culturally and socially transformative document

I don’t have 100 dollars to reach the port: Indian fisherman in Iran

44 Indian fishermen remain stranded in Iran, unable to pay-up for their return, even as Indian Navy’s 'Operation Samudra Setu' brings back 687 Indian nationals from Bandar Abbas

CJP helps mother reunite with sons, secures release from Assam Detention Camp

“I never thought I would see the faces of my boys," says Harbala Khatun who was released from Kokrajhar detention camp due to CJP’s intervention

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