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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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RTI info on Electronic Voting Machines would ‘endanger’ life of engineers: BEL

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Ambekarite denied admission at University of Madras

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Elegy For a Lost Friend: Gauri Lankesh (1962-2017)

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Iqbal Ansari, litigant in Babri masjid case attacked

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76 percent applicants in Jharkhand did not get any installment of PMMVY since inception

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