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Ensure transparency and inclusion in the 2027 Census: CCG

In a letter to the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India, over 90 members of the Constitutional Conduct Group (CCG), a collective of former civil servants from the All India and Central Services have urged that the Census process be transparent and inclusive; that OBCs be specifically enumerated, DNTs be enumerated as also the 1369 mother tongues in India be also separately classified (through supervision of the Anthropological Survey of India

MHA relaxes validity of FCRA registration certificates, deadline for opening bank accounts

Measures taken in wake of Covid-19, even as Delhi HC hears plea for exemption for organisations engaged in relief work

Is the right to health a forgotten constitutional mandate?

How Indian governments have systematically violated the constitutional mandate, the right to health and what needs to be urgently done given the harsh lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic

Israel’s attack on Palestine: Imperialist designs?

A closer look at the Israel-Paletine conflict that has been reignited recently and has led to death and destruction in the Middle East

Tamil Nadu: MK Stalin includes Opposition leaders in Covid-19 advisory committee

Inclusivity, working for the people seems to be motto for CM, like counterparts from Maharashtra, Kerala

UP: 1,621 people on polling duty dead, but gov’t recognises only 3!

Teacher’s union demands compensation, compiles a state-wide list identifying over 1,600 members across 72 regions who died after contracting Covid-19 or due to other ailments while serving at polling stations during the Panchayat elections

Activist moves SC to include PM CARES Fund as respondent in Covid case

SC is hearing a suo motu petition related to Covid, covering medical facilities including hospital beds, oxygen, life-saving drugs and vaccination

Himanta Biswa Sarma transfers several top IAS, IPS officers

IPS brother back to being SP; several key postings in Chief Ministers Office as well as major switch in postings of over 40 cops in statewide reshuffle

Never exported vaccines at the cost of Indians: SII

Covid-19 vaccine manufacturer sets the record straight about obligations under COVAX, even as domestic manufacturing of vaccines remains impeded by IPR laws and lack of government investment in R&D

CJP helps Amala Das get released on bail from Assam Detention Camp

Bitter-sweet conclusion to Bengali Hindu woman’s ordeal, as release comes five months after husband Gopesh’s institutional murder

Kerala cabinet: Pinarayi Vijayan remains, drops KK Shailaja!

Shailaja, a member of Central Committee, CPI(M), will now be appointed party Whip, as party wants ‘new faces’ as ministers

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