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Non-Electors Within Electors: ECI reports over 61 lakh potential exclusions
As Bihar's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) deadline arrives, ECI data reveals over 61 lakh potential voter exclusions, including millions identified as deceased, migrated, or 1 lakh untraceable, and nearly 7 lakh who haven't submitted forms, this massive culling of names fuels the INDIA Bloc's intensified, third-day protest, marked by LoP Mallikarjun Kharge's dramatic tearing of a symbolic SIR document outside Parliament
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Global Human Rights body issues statement in solidarity with Nagaland shooting victims
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In the words of Justice BP Reddy, AFSPA is a sketchy and bald Act, and needs to be repealed. These words from his report of 2005 need to be resounded for the Parliament to pay heed, to understand that a colonial era law is being used to blatantly take away innocent lives and destroy unsuspecting families
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So long as AFSPA protects soldiers from accountability, such atrocities will continue: HRW
Global human rights body demands repeal of draconian law that grants security forces wide range of powers that they often abuse to commit excesses like the killing of 14 civilians in Nagaland
Gen Bipin Rawat, wife and 11 others confirmed dead in chopper crash
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Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat’s chopper crashes
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Nagaland Killings: NHRC takes suo motu cognisance
Notice issued to Union Home Secretary, Union Defence Secretary, Chief Secretary and DGP, Nagaland
Army tried to hide bodies: Nagaland DGP’s report
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