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Policing Identity: Maharashtra’s birth certificate crackdown and the politics of belonging
What is framed as an administrative clean-up of fraudulent records in Maharashtra has unfolded into a securitised campaign in Mumbai — raising urgent constitutional questions about due process, discrimination, and the weaponisation of civil documentation
Ethics Code for Social Media, rules for OTT platforms, online news
Provision for identification of first originator of information on messaging services
Mamata Banerjee rides electric scooty to protest rising fuel prices
Calling the central government “anti-people,” Banerjee said the BJP government only made false promises, while the price of petrol and diesel rose by the day
Revisiting Northeast Delhi a year after the February 2020 pogrom
Senior activists, lawyers and experts working on-ground with Delhi pogrom survivors discuss with SabrangIndia the progress, or the lack of it, in the case of communal attacks in Northeast Delhi
Kerala Government to drop Sabarimala, anti CAA protest cases
The anti CAA protests had led to the registration of 530 cases and the SC order in the Sabarimala issue had triggered 17,000 cases in 2018
Move to rename Sardar Patel stadium after Modi, draws flak
Many see it as an insult to Sardar Patel, others view it as a sign of Modi’s possible narcissism
UP Assembly passes anti-religious conversion Bill amid opposition
This 2021 Bill seeks to replace the Ordinance promulgated in November last year that makes conversion a non bailable and cognisable offence
Battleground Bengal: Communal hues grow darker
From rath yatras, to pitting deities, there’s nothing the BJP won’t do to consolidate its vote bank of supremacists
Dismiss false charges against farmers: SKM to President on Daman Pratirodh Diwas
Farmers groups demanded for immediate dismissal of false allegations and condemned local police for oppressing farmers’ protest.
Black flags welcome Modi in Assam
BJP continues doling out sops in the poll-bound state, but refuses to blink on Clause 6 Committee, CAA
All-Punjab Anganwadi Workers’ Union to hold a protest march on March 4
According to the Union President, the State Home Ministry has told workers that they cannot do anything to resolve their predicament.
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