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“SIR is a Nazi-Fascist Project:” M.G. Devasahayam
Alleging that a staggering one crore persons will be finally excluded from the Karnataka state electoral rolls, MG Devasahayam, a former IAS officer, who was recently interviewed by the Kannada daily Vartabharati stated that opposition political parties had failed the voter while citizens groups had posed a robust challenge to the SIR process
Pandemic dance video teaches how to engage with Covid-19
Vancouver-based Indo-Canadian poet has a remedy to survive the current crisis by remaining connected with nature.
Stranger things: Walkouts, night vigils and intermittent fasting in the Parliament
Rajya Sabha members are batting for farmer’s rights, but law minister wants them to “apologise” before suspension is revoked
Gov’t admits that over 1 crore migrant labourers returned home on foot!
After failing to report data on migrant workers deaths and many frontline warriors of the pandemic Centre now suddenly talks about the number of migrant workers who returned home
Oppn boycotts Lok Sabha over farm Bills, Dharna by suspended MPs on
An all night dharna by the suspended Rajya Sabha MPs also received widespread support
No Hitler-shahi in India: Rights organisations protest in Delhi
Various sections of society came together in Delhi to assert Constitutional rights and stand in solidarity with the farmers of India.
Lakhan Musafir banished from 5 districts of Gujarat
Order dated September 14, 2020, bad in law, and against principles of natural justice
Communal violence was to uproot elected govt: Delhi police riots chargesheet
Final chargesheet alleges a “conspiracy” by handful of activists, students ‘planning’ over whatsapp etc, an “engineered, vicious and visceral communal violence”
Crores allocated for upliftment of manual scavengers remain unused: Lockdown impact?
The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment tells Parliament that the scheme for manual scavenging prevention and rehabilitation is not applicable to those sanitation workers who are not identified as manual scavengers.
MHA claims it has no data on Assam Detention Camp inmates!
Oddly enough the data had been regularly made available in multiple submissions before the Assam state assembly, and the fact that the same data was provided in the winter session of November 2019
Freedom Park: Where the marginalised unite
1,500 to 2,000 farmers protested on the streets of Bengaluru against the three agriculture Bills introduced by the government.
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“SIR is a Nazi-Fascist Project:” M.G. Devasahayam
Alleging that a staggering one crore persons will be finally excluded from the Karnataka state electoral rolls, MG Devasahayam, a former IAS officer, who was recently interviewed by the Kannada daily Vartabharati stated that opposition political parties had failed the voter while citizens groups had posed a robust challenge to the SIR process
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