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From Assam’s Soil to Detention and Back: The tragic death of Amzad Ali
Locked up in Matia detention camp despite generations-long roots in Assam, 49-year-old Amzad Ali dies of cancer as authorities ignore medical appeals; family finally lays him to rest in his native village
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Reviving the NRC brawl
Unless the courts intervene, the NRC may turn into a leaky sieve instead of a sealed and water-tight vessel
Delhi Police ACP thrashes journalist inside police station!
Caravan magazine staffer, has alleged that he was kicked and slapped by ACP Ajay Kumar Penkar inside the Model Town station premises
GN Saibaba denied medical facilities, books, letters from family; threatens hunger strike
Activist AS Vasantha Kumari, his wife writes to the Nagpur Central Jail to intervene; Prof Saibaba has been denied bail multiple times, including for mother’s funeral
Kolkata to march in solidarity with Fr. Stan Swamy
A secular body known to award social contributors has planned a march for Fr. Stan Swamy while adhering to social distancing norms
If NRC is faulty, then CM should resign: Assam citizens group
BNASM denounces state government’s stand on NRC
Assam NRC: 10,000 names could be deleted from the final list!
NRC Coordinator issues order to delete names of ‘ineligible people’ from final list
Varavara Rao’s health deteriorates, wife moves SC for release on medical grounds
His health is very feeble, says Pendaya Hemlatha, wife of the 81-year-old literary critic who was arrested in 2018 in connection with the Elgar Parishad case and is lodged at the Taloja jail since
107th citizenship related death in Assam!
Musa Mondal of Barpeta allegedly died by suicide after being declared foreigner
Erosion of Right to Free Speech leading to destruction of Right to Dissent: Justice Madan Lokur
The former Supreme Court judge was delivering the 2020 B.G. Verghese Memorial Lecture at a webinar organised by The Media Foundation, and hosted by the India International Centre
We shall not be intimidated, we shall not be silenced: Mahila Ekta Yatra
The group, now named in Delhi Riots chargesheet strongly contests criminalisation of women's expression of peaceful dissent
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