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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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Growing tensions against NPR-NRC halt Census work: WB
The recent mob attack on a volunteer collecting information for an NGO have made teachers to be chosen for the Census exercise anxious
Illegal and inhuman: Child rights groups condemn Bidar police’s investigation of children
They condemned the interrogation of children and the charges of sedition slapped on parent and authorities
Uber driver drags pro-democracy poet to cops: Nexus to build climate of fear?
Bappaditya Sarkar tells us about the chilling encounter where driver gave him a dire warning, and police asked him about his finances suspecting links to left wing extremists
Gujarat’s sleepy Modasa wakes up to women protesting the CAA-NPR-NRC
The rally in the town of Gujarat saw thousands of women decry the fascist policies of the government
TISS SU demands immediate release of student Kris Chudawala
The Students' Union condemns the government and media for their bias against queer individuals and portraying Kris as anti-national
16 Religious congregations denounce CAA
Statement by representatives of groups working with marginalized people calls CAA unconstitutional and counter-productive to SDG 16.
Pinjra Tod condemns govt for rampant use of sedition charges
The organization slammed the ruling disposition for the interrogation of children and silencing dissent
Ujjal Dosanjh raises concerns about Assam detention camps
Chief Justice of India was present on the dias at the event where the Canadian ex-minister also recited the poem ‘First they came for…’
Indore reverberates with the chant of ‘Hum Kaagaz Nahi Dikhaenge”
Swara Bhaskar, Medha Patkar and Digvijaya Singh among others address massive anti-CAA-NPR-NRC rally in the city
Did UP Police lathi-charge women anti-CAA protesters in Azamgarh?
Women were holding Shaheen Bagh style sit-in protest, when male police officers allegedly rained lathis on them
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Nearly two decades without elections, Jamia students’ agitation forces administration to set deadline for union revival
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India
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
A four-day door-to-door audit in Trilokpuri found voters marked absent, shifted or dead who were still living at their registered addresses, with 47.57 lakh names missing from Delhi’s draft roll, affected voters have until October 30 to file claims
India
SIR’s elusive illegal immigrants: Bogey Busted but will the injustices heaped be corrected?
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Rule of Law
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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