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To Karnataka’s Anti-SIR Movement: A note of caution and concern
While efforts have been afoot in Karnataka, Maharashtra, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh by civil rights groups and people’s movements to ensure inclusion of the maximum number of eligible voters under the ongoing, expanded, SIR process. The author argues how these efforts may come to naught, given the structural issues involved: a compromised ECI, rushed timelines and the unlawful and rigid document-test for citizenship. In fact, robust efforts in Kerala, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu where similar efforts were made also came to naught.
Favouring corrupt practice? EC involving Gujarat corporates to ‘force workers to vote’
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Two days on a yatra; that tiny glimmer
A Mumbai-based writer takes some time off to join the Bharat Jodo Yatra
No Freedom or Civil Liberty in Kashmir, says PAGD; Concerns Rise Over ‘New’ Voter List
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Distress of Kashmiri Pandits (KPs) in Valley continues, KPSS alleges govt unconcern
For the past two weeks, even as visits by high political functionaries continued, Kashmiri Pandit (KP) families in the Kashmiri valley have alleged callous neglect
At 107 in Glob Hunger Index, India now ranks in ‘serious’ category
As concerning is that India, at 107 of 121 countries measured, is even below Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal
Two women killed in ‘human sacrifice’ in Kerala’s Pathanamthitta district, arrests made
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