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Punjab SIR draft roll published; 20 lakh electors marked ASDD, claims open till September 12
Nearly 1.94 crore (19.4 million) enumeration forms digitised during SIR; over 20 lakh electors categorised as absent, shifted, dead or duplicate (ASDD), Voters whose names are missing from the draft can file claims for inclusion till September 12, even as complaints on social media during the enumeration phase highlighted difficulties faced by electors
Hearts full of scepticism, farmers agree for talks with Centre on Dec 30
Wondering whether the central government will be as open-minded as they are trying to project, farmers formally accept the government's offer to talk on December 30.
Bihar govt repression continues: 10,000 farmers lathi charged in Patna.
Deprived of APMCs years ago, Bihar farmers decry the anti-farmer laws of the Centre and demand the restart of local markets only to suffer lathi-charge by state police.
Madhya Pradesh Cabinet clears ‘Love Jihad’ law!
The Freedom to Religion Bill 2020 provides for prison term of up to ten years and fine of Rs 1 lakh declaring forceful conversions for marriage ‘null and void’
A 2020 Report of Victims of Incarceration: Student activists harassed, arrested
Remember how we witnessed a complete crackdown by the Delhi police on students protesting the unconstitutional CAA 2019 and proposed all India NRC and NPR? A SabrangIndia series tracks how these dynamic students have thereafter been charged with serious offences under counter-terror legislation on ground of ‘causing’ the Delhi violence of 2020
Farmers lament Centre’s vague and nonspecific letter for talks
Let down by the central government’s unimpressive letter for talks on December 30, farmer leaders assert their demands and discuss future protests
Louis Kahn’s family writes to IIMA
Image Courtesy: deccanherald.comThe family of legendary American architect Louis Kahn...
Centre agrees to meet farmers on December 30, end of stalemate?
Two days after farmer leaders sent their proposal, the central government agrees to talk to farmers on December 30 instead of December 29.
A 2020 Report of Victims of apathy: People of Assam
How this year, the Covid-19 pandemic, lockdown and floods, further added to the misery caused by the citizenship crisis, and impacted the lives of ‘others’
Gujarat: Dalit lawyer dies after being assaulted in a casteist attack
Local residents allegedly harassed and verbally abused the 65-year-old lawyer before calling more people to attack him
Death and defection haunt TMC in Bengal
Two TMC workers found dead, sudden defections leave party flummoxed
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Punjab SIR draft roll published; 20 lakh electors marked ASDD, claims open till September 12
Nearly 1.94 crore (19.4 million) enumeration forms digitised during SIR; over 20 lakh electors categorised as absent, shifted, dead or duplicate (ASDD), Voters whose names are missing from the draft can file claims for inclusion till September 12, even as complaints on social media during the enumeration phase highlighted difficulties faced by electors
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India
Maharashtra SIR: 2.08 crore (20.8 million) voter forms “uncollected” hence may not be listed in August 24 draft electoral roll
More than 1 in 5 voter enumeration forms have remained “uncollected” on the final day of Maharashtra’s SIR exercise, with urban districts accounting for a large share of those bureaucratically “excluded”-- nearly 95 lakh forms were uncollected in Thane, Mumbai and Pune, though voters left out of the draft will get a month to seek inclusion or correction
Minorities
Jharkand government accused of continued communal lynchings by fact-finding team
The fact-finding team that comprised representatives of Jharkhand Janadhikar Mahasabha, Karwan e Mohabbat, Sajha Kadam and United Milli Forum has demanded that both the family of the deceased (lynched) man and victim survivor be provided protection and an impartial probe be conducted
India
Sumit Sarkar: Engaged scholarship, ways of historical thinking, an enduring legacy
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Gender and Sexuality
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India
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