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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

Bar Council of Delhi issues show cause notice to Prashant Bhushan

The BCD wants the senior advocate to appear before it, explain why action should not be taken against him over his tweets

Centre to support Assam government’s affidavit to conduct NRC reverification?

SC had previously shot down the proposal to conduct 10-20 percent reverification

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.

Delhi HC allows HarperCollins to publish book on rape convict Asaram’s case

Publisher will have to add a disclaimer that the book is based on the judgment of a trial court, which is under appeal

Lakhan Musafir banished from 5 districts of Gujarat

Order dated September 14, 2020, bad in law, and against principles of natural justice

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

MHA: Over 200 still detained under PSA in J&K

This ministry also said Covid measures were running smoothly with 2G internet in response to two questions asked in Lok Sabha

Over 18,000 granted citizenship in India, many from Bangladesh and Pakistan: MHA

Ministry produces the number of people who were granted Indian citizenship in the last five years

SC reserves order in Shaheen Bagh protest site eviction case

Petitioner had demanded that protesters be forcibly evicted as they were causing traffic blockage

KPSS’s fast-unto-death begins in Srinagar

Kashmiri Pandit Sangharsh Samiti had sent multiple communications to government demanding rights of non-migrant Kashmiri Pandits

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