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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
The Missing Indian Voter, how many crores of Indians are missing from the electoral rolls?
Indicators and micro studies suggest that from the vast numbers, possibly close to 13 crores of Indians missing from the electoral rolls, a vast percentage are women and significant sections are then Dalits and Muslims
Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan under the Taliban
Under Taliban rule, women's rights have been systematically suppressed, suffocating every aspect of their lives.
India today has all the markers of a failing democracy. But the situation is not irreversible
AP Shah -
Former Delhi high court judge A.P. Shah stated that the rise of illiberal and communal forces in India is made possible, in part, by disillusionment with successive governments and compounded by a legal architecture that is permissive of abuse, and prejudices inherent in society.
France Bans the Abaya in Its Schools
The Muslim response sadly is again about demanding exceptionalism
Who is responsible for the death of Mohit Yadav?
The bus conductor took his own life a month and a half after the simple act of stopping the UP roads bus to allow fellow passengers to pray, offer namaz
RJD MP Manoj Jha’s Delhi University Lecture Cancelled, Triggers Political Row
The DU professor said he was invited to virtually address college and university teachers as a resource for a refresher social work and social sciences course on Sept 4.
Anti-caste discrimination bill, with some changes, passed by California Assembly
The anti-caste discrimination bill, #SB403 was finally passed in the California Assembly
One-year post order of the HC, family of Hathras victim yet to be given employment, awaiting relocation
Amicus Curiae in the case informs the Allahabad High Court that the Uttar Pradesh government is yet to comply by the order to provide employment to one of the family members and relocate family out of Hathras
Blasphemy Laws in Pakistan
A mob vandalised and burnt eight churches and several homes in Pakistan following accusations of blasphemy on August 16 in Faisalabad district’s Jaranwala tehsil in Punjab province.
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Karnataka’s new PRC rules are people-friendly, but will the ECI accept them?
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