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3,404 SIR Forms Found at Kharghar Xerox Shop: CJP, VFD and BCS demands answers from Maharashtra SEC

The discovery of original voter Enumeration Forms outside official custody, followed by the suspension of five BLOs, raises serious questions over the security and integrity of Maharashtra’s electoral-roll revision process; citizens groups demand a comprehensive inquiry

Bihar’s MGNREGA Workers Stare at Deeper Rural Stagnation

The rural workforce is caught between delayed or non-payment of wages in the state and lack of jobs outside.

Public consultation? Govt of India ‘didn’t consult’ even CIC before amending RTI Act

Information accessed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act...

Protests break out across Assam, Barak & Brahmaputra Valley against CAB

Across Assam, from the Barak Valley in upper Assam to the Brahmaputra Valley in lower Assam, protests against the Modi.2 government’s Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB, 2019) are breaking out proving to be an embarrassment to the BJP regime in the state

Opposition builds, TMC joins JD-U against Citizenship (amendment) Bill in Parliament

Discriminatory citizenship in the CAB was an election promise of the BJP during the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

WB bye elections: TMC knocks the wind out of BJP, wins all three constituencies

Huge embarrassment of BJP as TMC wins state chief Dilip Ghosh’s constituency!

‘Government-backed attacks’: Google warned 500 Indians against hacking

The search giant issued over 12,000 warnings to users across the country against hacking state-sponsored attackers from July – Sept 2019

28 deaths in detention camps, detainees down from 1043 to 988 in 9 days: Assam

Questions related to detention camps in Assam have been repeated, time and again, during the winter 2019 session of Parliament. Last week saw a question in Lok Sabha, where the government claimed to know the nationalities of the detainees and this week the government stated that there have been 28 deaths in detention camps and also made tall claims about the facilities provided to the inmates.

Unemployment rate doubled in rural areas, 2014-2018: GOI

Response to a Rajya Sabha question also states that unemployment grew sharply among urban men from 3% to 6.9% between 2015-16 and 2017-18.

75,000 student suicides between 2007 and 2016 in India!

Academic pressure, caste-based discrimination found to be major causes

Constitutional morality only through humanist principles of Babasaheb Ambedkar

 The President of India speaks about 'constitutional morality' while...

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3,404 SIR Forms Found at Kharghar Xerox Shop: CJP, VFD and BCS demands answers from Maharashtra SEC

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