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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

Once debarred from NRC, Hitesh Dev Sharma in charge of new NRC Coordinator

Guwahati, November 11, 2019: Hitesh Dev Sharma former joint...

Will English help bring the margins into the mainstream?

Andhra Pradesh CM says English will now be the medium of instruction from class I to VI, Telugu will be a compulsory subject

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

We, the undersigned, have all received messages from WhatsApp...

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

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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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