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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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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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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
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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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India
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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