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Documents Cannot Decide Democracy: How CJP is training communities to navigate the SIR process
Through a series of trainings in Maharashtra with community groups and civil society organisations, CJP and VFD are helping vulnerable communities understand the SIR process, resist panic, and protect their voting rights amid growing fears of exclusion and disenfranchisement
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Climate Change May Increase Mortality Rate by 6 Times Due to Excess Heat: Lancet Study
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The study said rise in night heat events will nearly double by 2090, from 20.4 degrees Celsius to 39.7 degrees Celsius across 28 cities from East Asia, increasing the burden of disease due to sleep disruption.
Spying on Opposition, Dissidents, Scribes Becomes More Dangerous
Authoritarian regimes can hire cyber criminals on the sly without signing any official agreement as they did in the case of Pegasus.
Regime’s policies are anti-worker, anti-peasant, pro-corporate: Trade Unions
Various labour rights groups and unions came together on Quit India Day in Gauhati
Award-Winning Poet from Madhya Pradesh Served House Demolition Notice
Mahesh Katare Sugam, who claims to possess all the relevant documents, feels he has been served the notice for raising local issues.
‘Grave Injustice’: People’s Tribunal on SC Judgements in Zakia Jafri, Himanshu Kumar’s Petitions
Speakers, including former judges, at the People’s Tribunal criticised the Supreme Court for putting down those who dared to raise questions over the government’s actions.
It is unfortunate that the petition was dismissed: Tanvir Jafri on Zakia Jafri case
The son of Zakia Jafri and slain Congress MP Ehsaan Jafri also lamented the Supreme Court’s observations about the NGO that helped them seek justice and whistleblower cops
We are with you, Teesta Setalvad: Dozens of letters pour in every week
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Well-wishers including fellow activists, students and ordinary citizens are sending postcards
He had no work in Hathras: Allahabad High Court denies bail to journalist Siddique Kappan
Police claim that the accused were travelling to the region to disturb the harmony at the location of the rape of a Dalit woman
Cannot evict persons with “Bulldozer” and leave them shelterless without any notice: Delhi HC
Court says reasonable period has to be given and temporary location to be provided
Right to free speech and expression includes the right to publish and circulate one’s opinions: Delhi HC
Court held that right to free speech and expression under Article 19(1)(a) includes the right to comment on content created on social media or on television channels
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