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“Inside the SIR”: Booklet flags ‘mechanical disenfranchisement’ in electoral roll revision

CJP–VFD publication combines training manual and ground documentation to question ongoing voter verification exercise

Who could have hurled petrol bombs at Shaheen Bagh protest?

Bikeborne miscreant hurls flaming projectiles at historic protest site

Jamia protests suspended, Eidgah goes online, Shaheen Bagh continues symbolically with four protestors

The student-led anti-CAA-NPR-NRC protest at Jamia Millia Islamia has been suspended in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Jamia Coordination Committee is the first to officially suspend its protest keeping the interests of others in mind. 

Census, NPR likely to be deferred in wake of the Coronavirus outbreak

Though government sources have indicated the postponement, a formal statement is pending from the Centre

Anti-CAA-NPR-NRC protests may be suspended due to Corona Virus pandemic

The student led protests at Jamia Millia Islamia university are likely to be called off, or suspended for the time being, on Sunday March 22. The date marks 100 days of the protest. 

States start using Disaster Relief fund to help combat COVID-19

The Centre recognised the disease as a “notified disaster” under the Disaster Management Act but has limited disbursement

Lives of the ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’ in the times of Corona

How exclusion and poverty make our underprivileged more vulnerable

Four accused in Coimbatore unrest charged under NSA

The police acted fast after initially booking only the suspects belonging to Muslim community under UAPA

Covid-19: No international flights to land on Indian soil starting March 22

The government has already banned entry of passengers from severely Covid-19 hit countries in India

RSS cancels meeting in B’luru over Covid-19; Twitter slams them for hyporcrisy

Tweeple pull up RSS asking why it cancelled the meeting if it and its affiliates promote cow urine as a cure for coronavirus

Bhiwandi Shaheen Bagh to go on with only 5 protestors till March 31 due to Covid-19

The organizers of the Bhiwandi Shaheen Bagh said that keeping public safety paramount, the protest would go on symbolically until further orders

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