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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
Does Pakistan really have a ‘nefarious intent’ with regard to opening the Kartarpur corridor?
Punjab CM says he always thought the opening of the Kartarpur corridor had a hidden agenda to restart Sikh militancy
AAMSU expresses concerns on all India NRC, CAB and clause 6 of Assam Accord
The Union Home Minister had recently held a meeting of stakeholders from the north-east to hear their views on nation-wide NRC. Among other stake holders, AAMSU (All Assam Minorities Students’ Union) was one of the groups who attended and presented its view. In the written memorandum, AAMSU laid down concerns on how a nation-wide NRC would abrogate the Assam Accord. The memorandum also apprised the Centre on how its own , government approved High Level Committee for implementation of clause 6 of Assam Accord was far exceeding its agenda.
It is we who will be judged, 50 years on as the ones who fought back: Mahua Moitra, TMC MP
Mahua Moitra, a first-time Trinamool Congress MP, has, once...
Rare moments of candour, when corporate India has spoken against a vindictive Modi regime
India’s all powerful home minister, Amit Shah, had to defend his govt’s policies, especially when it came to accusations of vendetta and intimidation being used by the regime to get at political foes. The man making these statements was influential industrialist, Rahul Bajaj, compelling Shah to respond, in Mumbai at the glittering summit called by the Economic Times on Saturday
Did NRC turn BJP’s electoral dreams to dust in Bengal?
Questions being raised after party’s humiliating defeat in bye elections.
A legacy of honesty and courage in public life: VP Singh
November 27, 2019 is his 10th death anniversary.
Engineers and graduates apply for gov’t sanitation worker jobs!
Engineers and graduates apply for gov’t sanitation worker jobs!
Uddhav Thackeray stops tree cutting at Aarey
Within a day of taking oath as the new Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Uddhav Thackeray has ordered Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) to stop work on the Mumbai Metro car shed that was set to be constructed in the Aarey region of Goregaon, Mumbai.
Siddaramaiah and Kumaraswamy booked for sedition and defamation
The charges were levied with relation to their protests against the IT raids, allegedly by the BJP in March
Maha Vikas Aghadi demands employment for ‘locals’
Will this lead to a rebirth of Shiv Sena’s ‘Sons of the Soil’ movement?
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