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Karnataka’s new PRC rules are people-friendly, but will the ECI accept them?
While a sustained and rigorous campaign by anti-SIR activists across Karnataka has pushed the opposition Congress government to issue a fresh set of simplified guidelines for the issuance of Permanent Residency Certificates; the experience of West Bengal however shows that no amount of pro-activeness by any state government influences an ECI functioning under a non-transparent and non-accountable diktat
Serious flaws in the Digital Personal Data Protection Act
The hurriedly passed “Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act violates all accepted norms of privacy and data protection while also bestowing unchecked powers on the union of India
India’s Poor Paid for G20 With Homes and Livelihoods Halted
More people will be left homeless and unemployed than before India decided to host the G20 Summit in Delhi.
Long Wait for Wages, Gratuity for Telangana Anganwadi Workers
Despite being the backbone of efforts to reduce infant and maternal mortalities and impart pre-school education, Anganwadi teachers and helpers are not considered government employees.
NIA raids on Allahabad human rights activists ‘part of larger political repression’ in UP
The civil rights group Campaign Against State Repression(CASR)*,condemning the National Investigation Agency (NIA) raid on “democratic, farmer, student and anti-displacement activists in East Uttar Pradesh”, has said in a statement that “these raids happening now in Allahabad are part of a larger on-going campaign of political repression being undertaken in Uttar Pradesh”.
J&K’s Keran Valley: An Old Man’s Divided Heart on This Side of the River
Aurangzeb, 85, was left alone when his family migrated during the peak of militancy. He was happy seeing his daughter on the other side, but failing vision has put a stop to that.
Assam eviction drive compels evicted women to take drastic steps
Women were compelled to strip as the second round of eviction in a year was attempted to take place at Silsako, Assam.
UN human rights experts express alarm at Manipur violence, India disagrees
The eighteen experts, almost all of whom are special rapporteurs working with the UN Human Rights Council, have made note of the fact-finding missions to Manipur are being harassed for their work documenting rights violations
Press Club of India condemns FIR against Editor’s Guild of India (EGI), criminalising journalism
The Press Club of India has strongly condemned the actions of the Manipur police in lodging of filing a police case against three members of a fact finding committee of the Editors Guild of India (EGI) and its President on the media coverage of the ethnic clashes and violence in Manipur.
Manipur Internet Shutdown Hurting Patients: Doctors
IDPD members who visited the state said that they could not help patients through telemedicine and train doctors in performing peritoneal dialysis and other skills.
2 Meitei lawyers representing Kuki Professor Hausing targeted by mob, houses and chambers vandalised in retaliation attack
A day before the attack, 4 lawyers assisting in case against Professor Huasing had withdrawn their names from the case citing “personal difficulties”, they told Hindustan Times that they withdrew names to protect the feelings of the members of the Meitei community
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