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Water Cannons Instead of Answers: Bihar’s recruitment crisis and the state’s crackdown on protest
Weeks of agitation over recruitment and examination reforms culminated in clashes in Patna, amid disturbing allegations of excessive force, illegal detention and custodial abuse
Shivaji in ‘secular’ Maharashtra
First published on: 19 Dec 2015The Shiv Sena threatens...
The interplay of caste and faith
While faith often overshadows special marriages, experts talk about how caste and religion both influence this social institution
Don’t make mentally disabled person travel for assessment test: Madras HC to TN gov’t
HC also suggest that the government consider exempting those suffering from other disabilities also from appearing in person to obtain disability certificates
78 percent Maharashtra households suffered food insecurity: Hunger Watch II report
As many as 20 percent of surveyed households suffer severe food insecurity, with most deprivations focused in urban areas
Lakhimpur Kheri case: Third witness attacked, survives firing by goons
Singh said he let his security guard on leave without informing authorities
Pan-India farmers protest over attack on Rakesh Tikait!
Leaders alleged a political conspiracy and demand suspension of officers, security to Rakesh Tikait and judicial inquiry into the incident
Dr. GN Saibaba hospitalised after his health deteriorates due to hunger strike
The former Delhi University who is 90 percent disabled had demanded removal of CCTV cameras from toilet and bathing area
WHO bats for ASHA, calls them India’s ‘Global Health Leaders’
Union leaders argue true respect for ASHAs would entail payment of proper wages and job permanency
Scrap mining projects in Hasdeo forests: Friends of Hasdeo Aranya
Rights groups and invested experts discuss the Hasdeo mining project controversy in Chhattisgarh
Delhi HC asks Sharjeel Imam to approach Trial Court to seek interim bail in seditious speeches case
Sharjeel Imam to seek bail in view of recent SC order wherein the sedition law has been kept in abeyance till the Union Government reconsiders the provision
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Bihar: Not just Delhi, Patna, Siwan too saw brute police violence against demonstrating students: PUCL
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