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Election Commission must take the Indian people into confidence, correct its procedures & practices

Instead of treating complaints from political parties and the public at large as vexatious, the Commission should take advantage of them as useful feedback and correct its procedures and practices

Union Home Ministry seeks further six months to frame CAA rules, has implementation however begun?

Without the rules being framed, the Citizenship (Amendment) Act cannot be implemented; MHA’s claims in its annual reported reveal however that some measure of implantation may have begun

Prominent Muslim writers excluded from Kannada Sahitya Sammelana, allege scholars, alternate meet called

Several academics and senior writers have told The Hindu, New Indian Express snd The News Minute that the state has hundreds of Muslim Kannada writers, however, only a select few have been considered for the event.

President Draupadi Murmu gives her assent to Gujarat Bill empowering police to criminalise protests

The controversial new law vests powers with the police to register cases against those who protest without informing local courts in writing, which has been the case thus far. 

Uneven yet Eloquent: PEN America’s anguished cries on India at 75

Over a 100 Indian and diasporic writers wrote, or gave statements about the suppression of dissent (among other things) in India at 75 

On The Road, with the Bharat Jodo Yatra

For months since September, I had been devotedly following...

Spate of Demolitions continue, 44 Muslim families asked to vacate homes: Kushinagar, UP

The state government, claiming that the homes of residents are built on encroached land, has sent eviction notices to 47 families of Nutan Hardo village in Uttar Pradesh’s Kushinagar village, out of which 44 are Muslim.

Assam: Delimitation of Assembly, Parliamentary Seats, Merging of Districts Raise Apprehensions

The Assam government notification of December 31, 2022, suggests that almost 100 villages have been realigned with different districts from the existing ones.

J&K: Protest, Condemnations Against Rajouri Attack as Toll Reaches Six

A minor boy was killed, and seven others were injured in an explosion near one of the three houses where armed assailants targeted the locals, killing at least four people, including a father and son.

Kashmiri students allege attacks in AMU, write to Shah for probe

They have been protesting for three days against alleged harassment faced by them on campus

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