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The Deadly Deadline: “I Can’t Do This Anymore”—India’s electoral revision turns into a graveyard for BLOs/teachers

From consuming poison in Uttar Pradesh to hanging in West Bengal, the ‘Deadly Deadline’ of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) triggers a suicide wave among teachers and Anganwadi workers, employees’ unions cry 'institutional murder' while families mourn loved ones broken by state pressure

Madras HC raises concern over shortage of Covid vaccine, Black Fungus drugs

The court observed that Tamil Nadu and Puducherry had managed the second surge and the cases were now on the decline

Delhi HC directs DCGI inquiry into alleged drugs hoarding by Gautam Gambhir

The court has asked the authority to submit what action can be taken in such cases of hoarding

3 Jhansi junior doctors detained, allegedly manhandled for trying to approach UP CM

The medical professionals wished to hand over a letter listing the demands of the staff at the Maharani Laxmi Bai medical college hospital in Jhansi to CM Yogi Adityanath who was visiting the facility

Forward list of female inmates with children to HPC for consideration of release: Gauhati HC to State

The court had earlier asked for information about female inmates lodged in jails across Assam with children

12 Opposition leaders demand GoI resumes talks with farmers

Political leaders express support for May 26 Farmers Protest that marks six months of the agrarian struggle

Covid-19 claims Jarnail Singh and Rajkumar Keswani

The two journalists had tried to make the Indian state accountable for two different 1984 tragedies

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Vaccine indemnity: GoI, Pfizer at an impasse

Pfizer’s anti-Covid vaccine is awaiting approval, but the pharma major says that it wants legal protection from claims linked to use of its vaccine

Unnao: Teenaged Muslim vendor dies after police beating for violating Corona curfew

According to the Unnao police, two police constables have been suspended, charged with murder, a home guard, has been dismissed from service

Assam: Brave daughter took charge as father languished in a detention camp

CJP helps Joykrishna Paul secure bail and reunite with family; daughter Monalisa had been providing for the family while he was behind bars

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The Deadly Deadline: “I Can’t Do This Anymore”—India’s electoral revision turns into a graveyard for BLOs/teachers

From consuming poison in Uttar Pradesh to hanging in West Bengal, the ‘Deadly Deadline’ of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) triggers a suicide wave among teachers and Anganwadi workers, employees’ unions cry 'institutional murder' while families mourn loved ones broken by state pressure

November 26: How RSS mourned the passage of India’s Constitution by the Constituent Assembly

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A Terror Case Without Evidence: Allahabad High Court’s ‘heavy heart’ acquittal After 28 Years

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A Salute across the skies, from Air Commodore Pervez Akhtar Khan

The tragic death of 37-year-old Indian Air Force (IAF) pilot, Wing Commander Namansh Syal, who lost his life on Friday, November 21 when a Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA Mk-1) crashed during a demonstration at the Dubai air show, brought this moving response from Pakistani Air Commodore Pervez Akhtar Khan from across the border

Clarity Without Cure: The Supreme Court’s reinterpretation of Articles 200 and 201 and the future of federal governance

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SIR exercise leaves trail of suicide across states as BLOs buckle under pressure and citizens panic over citizenship

The SIR of electoral rolls has come under severe distress following a series of suicides involving Booth Level Officers (BLOs) and marginalised citizens in West Bengal, Rajasthan, and Kerala, families and employee unions allege that the pressure to complete a traditionally lengthy verification process in the name of SIR within two months is causing fatal mental distress

Beyond mere Recognition: The Jane Kaushik judgment and the next frontier of transgender equality

In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court acknowledged the dignity and rights of employment of transgender individuals, ordered monetary compensation for a transwoman teacher who had been terminated from her position, and ordered that a model Equal Opportunity Policy be made mandatory in all institutions, going further than the Constitution's promise of equality in private employment

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