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Targeting human rights activism, comments by NIA Court shocking: PUCL
Issuing the statement on January 9, PUCL has expressed the hope that these prejudiced and invidious observations are suo moto expunged from the reported judgment. The NIA Court, Lucknow had, reportedly in a 136-page judgement delivered in early January actually pulled up organisations “for promoting the constitutional values of ‘spirit of harmony’ and ‘brotherhood’.”
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‘You left us a decade too soon, when India needed its body healed and soul rejuvenated’: a farewell to comrade Sitaram Yechury
In this brief evocative farewell note, actor and theatre person, Joy Sengupta regrets “how comrade Sitaram Yechury left a decade too soon, just as Indian politics needed all the sanity and empathy you embodied: sane and empathetic leaders to collectively help, heal its body and rejuvenate its soul”
Truth about the Sanjauli Mosque issue: Shimla, Himachal Pradesh
A week ago, Thursday, September 5, 2024, Hindutva groups...
A life dedicated to idealism of inclusive anti caste India
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How Do I Say Goodbye to a Comrade I Have Known For 50 Years?
Sitaram Yechury spent his life working for a world free from oppression. That is the generous legacy he has left all of us who share his vision of continued struggle and solidarity.
A multi-religious, multi-cultural nation state like India must stay aloof from religion: Sitaram Yechury
This exclusive conversation between Comrade Sitaram Yechury and Communalism Combat took place on July 31, 2003 and stressed that the separation between State and religion is a critical aspect of a modern nation state like India that is rich with a multitude of religious, cultural and linguistic differences
CPI-M Polit Bureau and AIKS dip the Red Flag in memory of Comrade Sitaram Yechury
The Polit Bureau of the CPI-M and the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) have, in moving statements issued today, mourned the loss of Comrade Sitaram Yechury, a “stalwart leader of the working people and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) since 2015. Comrade Yechury was also a highly regarded Marxist intellectual, a member of the politburo of the CPI(M) since 1992 and an ace parliamentarian.”
Mother Teresa: Saint who taught us Compassion
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Top intellectual targeted for role as anti-displacement activist, opponent of ‘corporate loot’
The civil rights network, Campaign Against State Repression (CASR), strongly condemning the National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrest human rights activist and advocate Ajay Kumar in “false conspiracy case registerd in Lucknow”, has demanded the authorities should stop witch hunting the “democratic rights activist”.
Manipur on Edge: Violent Clashes Erupt on the day following Kuki-Zo Protests Demanding Separate Administration, action against state CM based on leaked tapes
Protests intensify across Manipur as the Kuki-Zo community demands separate administration, banners reading "Leaked Tapes: Ethnic Cleansing Exposed" and "Separate Administration the Only Solution" flood the streets, reflecting deepening mistrust in the state government amidst ongoing violence.
IPMIE released “Electoral Integrity in India an Agenda for Change: Learnings from the 2024 General Election”
In a Press statement, the Independent Panel for Monitoring Indian Elections (IPMIE) calls on the Indian authorities to implement recommendation made by them with immediate effect, during the general election 2024 period
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