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Manipur Year 4: Guns Without Justice
Three years into the worst episode of ethnic violence, marked by grave allegations of state failure and complicity, in post-independence India, the central government is preparing to deploy around...
Hate Watch: UP Dy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya adding fuel to the communal embers?
Keshav Prasad Maurya seems to have made a bid to share the limelight with his political bosses and perhaps outdo them in some ways by making controversial statements
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It is mayhem there… Supreme Court orders not being followed, Kapil Sibal tells SC
All India Trinamool Congress alleged that Supreme Court orders for free and fair municipal elections in Tripura were violated and people were not allowed to vote
To tomato or not to tomato? That is no longer the question
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Aadhaar linking to Voter ID: Empowering voters or enabling surveillance?
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Postponing Tripura municipal elections is last recourse: SC
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Kashmir based human rights activist Khurram Parvez arrested
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UAE Princess pushes for Sudheer Chaudhary’s name to be dropped from Abu Dhabi event
He is all set to speak at an even by ICAI, but pressure is mounting to drop his name from the list of speakers
Now even beggars are not spared by Assam FTs!
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CJP comes to his aid of Assam beggar served FT notice, discovers name already included in NRC
AASU and Assam Gov’t agree to push for NRC reverification again
Decision taken at meeting of Assam Accord committee; demand had already been rejected by the Supreme Court
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