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Arunachal’s anti-dam protests intensify as arrests, militarisation and threats to press freedom fail to silence resistance
Communities resisting the proposed 11,200 MW project fear the loss of ancestral land, livelihoods and cultural heritage, with activists detained under the APUAPA
3 killed in anti-CAB protests in Assam
Police resort to firing, lathi-charge and tear gas shelling to control protesters, as agitation against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill refuses to dissipate in Assam.
New data protection law comprehensive but full of exemptions
In the Winter session of this year, the ‘Personal Data Protection Bill’ based on the recommendations and findings of the Justice Srikrishna report, has been tabled in the Lok Sabha. The bill, however, has been referred to a joint select committee consisting of 30 members who will submit their report by the budget session next year after many opposition parties wanted changes to be made to the law.
927 Sikhs and Hindus granted citizenship since 2018
In one of the questions on December 11 in Rajya Sabha came a question from Dr. Kirodi Lal Meena of BJP seeking data on citizenship given to refugees from particularly Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Don’t show anti-national content: I&B Ministry
On the day that the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill was...
Calls for Civil Disobedience against CAB
Senior IPS officer resigns from Maharashtra SHRC protesting CAB
Assam engulfed in smoke as protests rage on
Zamser Ali brings in developments about the anti-CAB battle that the people of Assam are fighting
Commercial establishments around Sikh Mangu mutt demolished in Odisha
The demolition is a part of the larger plan to turn Puri into a world-heritage city
PIB’s CAB #MythBuster attempt busted
In the run up to the tabling of the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB), 2019 in the Rajya Sabha, the Press Information Bureau, released a series of posts via social media called “Myth Busters” pertaining to the bill.
Students injured, army called in as anti-CAB stir intensifies in Assam
The CAB is currently under discussion in the Rajya Sabha
Devil’s Arithmetic in Assam: 1.29 lakh ‘declared foreigners’, 970 in detention camps, 6 deported
Some more disclosures have been made in the Parliament as to data pertaining to declared foreigners and detainees in Assam. Speaking on basis of information made available by state government of Assam, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) provided answers to several questions pertaining NRC in Assam.
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Nearly two decades without elections, Jamia students’ agitation forces administration to set deadline for union revival
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Arunachal’s anti-dam protests intensify as arrests, militarisation and threats to press freedom fail to silence resistance
Communities resisting the proposed 11,200 MW project fear the loss of ancestral land, livelihoods and cultural heritage, with activists detained under the APUAPA
India
Food Security during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Need for a shift from food security to nutrition justice.
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India
Delhi SIR: Public audit finds 416 of 1,236 deleted voters still at their registered addresses
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SIR’s elusive illegal immigrants: Bogey Busted but will the injustices heaped be corrected?
Barely 771 “foreign nationals” identified in Karnataka and a miniscule 1,600 in six other Indian states; yet the hysterical bogey of the “ghuspetiya” (illegal immigrant) has been used to render 130 million plus Indian without the right to vote?
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2020 Delhi Riots: Delhi High Court upholds seven-year sentence for five men in 22-year old Muslim migrant worker’s death
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