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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

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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