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Jantar Mantar shut to protest, CJP leaders sent to jail, Delhi police invoke ‘breach of peace’
Denotification of the protest site precedes preventive action against Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka, who attempted to enter the barricaded area and unfurl the Tricolour
Post Poll Watch: Muslim woman allegedly threatened with triple-talaq after voting for BJP
The woman, identified as Uzma, has claimed that her angry in-laws beat her and threw her out of the house
Congress to introduce private member bill seeking rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandits
The Kashmiri Pandit (Recourse, Restitution, Rehabilitation and Resettlement) Act, to be introduced by Congress MP Vivek Tankha in Rajya Sabha
BJP using The Kashmir Files to win Assembly elections: Sena MP Sanjay Raut
Raut accuses the movie of using half-truths to garner more favour for the ruling regime
ICJ: Russia must immediately suspend military operations against Ukraine
In a 13 against 2 vote, the ICJ directed Russia to stop attacks on its neighbouring country until a final decision is made
Uttar Pradesh: Doctor Kafeel Khan will contest MLC elections on April 9
The paediatrician, author and activist is the Samajwadi Party’s MLC candidate from the Devariya-Kushinagar seat
Fr Stan Swamy’s custodial death a ‘stain forever’: UN Group
The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention asked govt of India to conduct an effective investigation into the circumstances that led to Fr Swamy’s death
Assembly Election Results 2022 Whither Pluralism: Democracy?
One of the major lessons of the assembly election results is that fragmented Opposition cannot take on the mighty electoral might of BJP-RSS
Crisis of Democracy: Lessons from UP elections
How ignorance, arrogance and even delusion of Opposition parties proved to be their undoing
The Ukraine-Russia Conflict and NATO’s Imperialist Expansionism
“I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because War is bad in essence” – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
The Kashmir Files making resident Kashmiri Pandits feel unsafe
Movie twists narrative to generate communal hate, makes us unsafe, say Kashmiri Pandits who continue to live in J&K
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