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ECI to political parties: Steer away from caste and religion during electioneering, no false statements to mislead, no anti-women stance
The advisory issued by the ECI asserts that any act in violation would result in severe consequences
Farmers protest: Documentary ‘Kisan Satyagraha’ barred from Bengaluru film fest
The award-winning documentary film on the 2020-21 farmers stir has been refused a screening; along with two others films, one on Israel and the other on Ukraine, reports Times of India
JNU Students conducting election meeting attacked
As per reports, several students were attacked by the Akhil Bharatiya Vidya Parishad on February 29 as they were conducting a general body meeting on campus.
Ten years of a powerful PM but the country is a landscape of worrying divisions: Christoffe Jaffrelot to Karan Thapar
Modi is India's most powerful PM ever but the country has become a landscape of very worrying divisions: Christophe Jaffrelot to Karan Thapar for The Wire.
A Gandhian revolutionary: Jyotiba Desai passes away at 97
Jyotibhai Desai, who was to turn 98 in two...
Lest we ever forget: Maulana Azad whose death anniversary is today, February 22
On the 55th death anniversary of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, a doyen of India’s freedom struggle, India’s first Union Minister for Education and a man whose contribution the present far right regime wants to erase from all record, we must always remember the man who was President of the Indian National Congress twice. In memorium
‘X’ distances itself from the clampdown on freedom of expression by blocking accounts on the executive orders of the Union government
As ‘the social media giant states that they are complying with the orders of government, what are the legal consequences it would face if it does not?
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