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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.
Why is the Centre stalling Justice Muralidhar’s transfer to Madras HC?
The Orissa High Court Chief Justice has served a long tenure at Delhi High Court from where he was hurriedly transferred after he pulled up the Delhi Police for not doing their job during the 2020 Delhi riots
US advises American tourists to exercise caution due to cases of sexual assault and terrorism in India
US also advises against travel to Jammu and Kashmir, and places close to the India-Pakistan border
Arundhati Roy: Things that Can and Cannot Be Said; The Dismantling of the World as We Know It
As the rapist-mass murderers return to take their place as respected members of society, Teesta Setalvad, the activist whose organisation, Citizens for Justice and Peace, has meticulously compiled a tower of documentary evidence that points to the complicity of the Gujarat government in general and Narendra Modi in particular with the 2002 massacre, was arrested, accused of forgery, tutoring witnesses and attempting to keep ‘the pot boiling’.
A Funeral and a Death: Kumar Shiralkar (1948 – 2022)
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Mohammed Manik jumps into turbulent Mal river, saves 9 lives
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ECI U-Turn on ‘freebies’, does the watchdog itself need a code of conduct now?
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UP: Power officer suspended for objectionable posts against PM, CM
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In pictures: Apples rot in Pulwama after a ruinous week of highway blockage
After thousands of trucks were stuck on the Kashmir - Jammu highway recently, bringing hundreds of crores worth of Kashmiri apples on the verge of decay, pictures have emerged showing orchards littered with rotting apples.
Save the Constitution, say no to hate
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