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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

Private Interest Masquerading as Policy Critique: NEP

Geeta Gandhi Kingdon, Professor of Education Economics at University...

Protest against the Govt.proposal to repeal the working journalists Act: AUJ

Journalists in Assam, under the banner of the Assam...

RTI activists reach Rashtrapati Bhavan to protest against the amendment bill, detained

The recent amendments to the Right to Information Act,...

Mass Protests at Narmada valley commemorate a Historic Struggle

Protesters highlighted demands for resettlement and urged a re-think...

Denying Mass Retrenchment, Railways dubs queries on ‘performance’ as ‘routine’

Several media outlets had reported that the Indian Railways...

Indian schools do not provide enough exposure to children from Under-Represented Groups

With the increasing pace of technological advances and globalisation...

Remembering Asma Jahangir : A Legacy to Cherish

It is now more than a year since Asma...

How Assam Loses Land, Lives, Livelihoods To Its Rivers

Mumbai: In the month of July 2019, floods claimed...

Odisha Government Registers Cases Against Tribals for Resisting Vedanta in Kodingamali Hills

The cases have been registered for disrupting “law and...

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