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“Pradhan Helped BJP Win Odisha, Gyanesh Is Helping It Win India” | Aishe Ghosh | Teesta Setalvad
Aishe Ghosh speaks with Teesta Setalvad about student protests, political crackdowns and the fight for democracy in India.From the 2020 crackdown on student activists to today’s protests, they discuss...
JNU Alumni protest fees hike in Kolkata, gets support from several Universities
Professors, students and parents, who are aggrieved with the fee hike in public education system of India poured in huge number in central Kolkata to show solidarity with JNU alumni demanding fee hike to be rolled back
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WCD Ministry offers up cookie-cutter answers to queries on domestic violence
When asked about cases of domestic violence over the last three years, Minister of Women and Child Development (WCD) Smriti Irani responded in Parliament with old figures.
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.
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Bihar custodial death: Six suspended after Dilshad Ansari’s death in custody; family demands high-level probe
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