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Through The Lens of Raghu Rai: An evening in Mumbai
A film screening at the open air venue –Press Club Mumbai terrace—brought alive the works and perspective of the legendary photographer, Raghu Rai
The game of hits and misses: crackdown on “illegal” immigrants
With the Karnataka police on a politically driven “mission” to detain “illegal immigrants” the exercise is in all likelihood going to determine into an anti-Bengali or anti-outsider statement, allowing regional parochialism to raise its ugly head, even as citizens get mindlessly targeted
Assam’s flood affected victims still waiting for compensation
Bureaucratic red-tapism and not lack of funds is the cause of the delay
Open Letter to the Government of India from Pegasus Targeted Persons
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IAS Gopinathan who quit in protest of J&K clampdown gets chargesheet from Centre
Accused of insubordination, he had been earlier asked to resume duty immediately
36 Years Since the Massacre, People from Nellie Still Suffering
The CJP Team received information that a large chunk of people in the village of Borbari—where the Nellie Massacre took place in 1983—have been excluded from the final NRC list. CJP’s Assam State Co-ordinator Zamsher Ali along with the CJP team went to visit the village and take stock of the situation. Here is what he had to say:
Gujarat’s anti-terror law gets President nod after 16 years
The BJP, infull throttle, has been relentlessly pushing its agenda through various policies and this time it has gotten its draconian anti-terror law for Gujarat passed by the President
Centre to merge Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha TV channels
The committee to plan the transition will be headed by a person from the Union government
Hate Speech on FB is BJP’s weapon of choice in Assam: Report
While the Assamese language that has been used potently to spew hate targeting the state’s Muslim minority, leaving them vulnerable to targeted violence; Facebook has been, so far, unresponsive
The BSF have left the 300 plus livestock to die a slow death
Cattle killers: Will the BSF be pulled up for the inhuman killing of cattle in West Bengal?
“Nationalism is ideological poison”: Hamid Ansari
Former VP says, religiosity and strident nationalism are a threat to a democratic society
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