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May Day Dramatised
When Safdar Hashmi wrote a play on the centenary of May Day, 1986.
Alapan Bandyopadhyay issued notice under Disaster Management Act
Asked to explain in writing by Thursday why action should not be taken against him for skipping PM’s cyclone review meeting
Israel: Is Benjamin Netanyahu on his way out?
Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid have until Wednesday evening to cobble together a coalition of 61 seats
GDP contracts by 7.3 percent in 2020-21, an all-time low in the last four decades!
While the fourth quarter of the year recorded a 1.6 percent growth, the overall fall has negatively influenced nearly every sector of the Indian economy
What do Ramdev and Adityanath have in common?
The two saffron clad men, will now be hailed as philosophers, their books will be included in philosophy syllabus at Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut
Abba, they took away Maa: CJP reunites a mother and her children in Assam
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Doyjan Bibi becomes the 40th person to be released from a Detention Camp on conditional bail with CJP’s help
A misguided attempt to revive Coal
How India can divert attention to other cleaner and sustainable energy sources to reduce dependence on the fossil fuel
WB Chief Secy retires, becomes Mamata Banerjee’s Chief Adviser
Another power move by the Bengal CM who recently crushed the BJP’s dreams of ruling Bengal by retaining power in her state via a landslide victory in the assembly elections
My goal is to save lives, not vaccines: Arvind Kejriwal
In trying to taunt Delhi CM Kejriwal’s constant SoS on shortage of the Covid vaccine, Haryana's ML Khattar said vaccines should be rationed, so stocks last longer
Wayanad citizens demand immediate end to draconian changes in Lakshadweep
In a letter to Prime Minister Modi, environmental group members remind him how the time-tested ways of the islanders that stand to be destroyed by new laws
First coconut trees painted saffron, now livelihood, culture threatened: Pinarayi Vijayan on Lakshadweep Admin
Kerala Assembly has unanimously passed a resolution demanding the urgent removal of new Lakshadweep administrator Praful Khoda Patel. The resolution was moved by Chief Minister of the state
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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