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May Day Dramatised
When Safdar Hashmi wrote a play on the centenary of May Day, 1986.
Who will decide how many children an Indian woman should bear?
Some Church Bishops encourage large families, while male Chief Minister ministers plan two-child laws, has anyone asked the women?
Pegasus Snoopgate: RS MP, Journalists move SC for court monitored probe
Reports of alleged snooping of human rights activists, politicians and journalists, using Israeli spyware Pegasus, surfaced one day before the monsoon session
Centre justifies withholding names of UAPA detainees citing “national interest”
MHA admits that Delhi Police arrested 9 people under UAPA last year, but refuses to disclose names
Tectonic Zone: Northeast
The British drew the borders, and changed them several times according to their purely administrative and military convenience
Nearly 50,000 atrocity cases registered under SC/ST Act in 2019: Centre
The conviction rate meanwhile howers at a mere 10 percent as per submission by the Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment before the Rajya Sabha
Over 5,000 vacancies for judicial officers across India in 2021: Centre in LS
Uttar Pradesh has the highest number of vacancies at 1,053, against a sanctioned strength of 3,634 judicial officers
MHA once again gaslights public on NRC
Skirts question about RGI's notification of NRC by referring to notifications issued before final NRC was released, blames delays on Covid
Centre seeks another extension till January 2022 to frame CAA rules
CAA aims to grant Indian nationality to persecuted minorities of Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan except Muslims
Mumbo-Jumbo will Voodoo you!
Has the Voodoo of national security been cast to enfeeble and erase fundamental rights?
India’s Deep State: Is any citizen safe?
Crucial questions raised at online discussion co-organised by Free Speech Collective , NWMI and SabrangIndia on the implications of Pegasus Project, targeted surveillance and violation of privacy by the Indian Gov’t
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Dalit Bahujan Adivasi
Systematic Exclusion: Caste-based atrocities across Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, MP, and UP
A spate of anti-Dalit incidents—from a youth killed over leftover food in Amreli to a suspicious death after an inter-caste relationship in Tamil Nadu, and social boycotts in Khargone—also includes temple bans and clashes over Dalit wedding processions
Minorities
Delhi: Ayaan Saifi, a 16-year old, stabbed to death in nation’s capital on April 30
Man stabbed in Trilokpuri: While media focusses on the just concluded state polls, and television channels turn the other way, two media outlets, The Tribune and Observer Post report the stabbing of 19 year old Ayaan Saifi on April 30
India
UP: Women protest installation of prepaid smart electricity metres in several districts
At least ten districts of Uttar Pradesh have witnessed widespread women led protests against the hasty, untested installation of pre-paid smart metres that women claim have been programmed to run fast to “inflate” electricity bills
Minorities
As lynchings “normalise” in ‘New India, a Bihar imam is ‘thrashed, pushed’ from train to die in Bareilly
While the incident reportedly took place on April 26, it took sectional media and social media coverage for the Bareilly police to finally admit that the beating to death of Maulana Tausif Raza Manzari was a targeted attack, not an accident on May 1; his wife provided details of a call to her from the dead cleric where he narrated he was under attack
Gender and Sexuality
Reproductive Autonomy Cannot Be Subordinated to Adoption: Supreme Court allows termination of 7-month pregnancy of minor
Holding that a woman’s choice is paramount under Article 21, the SC affirms that constitutional courts must prioritise dignity, mental health, and bodily autonomy over statutory limits under the MTP framework