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One Death Every Few Days, Zero Accountability: Sanitation workers protest at Jantar Mantar

From disputed death figures to continuing caste-based labour, the Safai Karmachari Andolan says India's sewer deaths are not accidents but preventable killings enabled by state inaction

We want 700 MT of oxygen supplied to Delhi every day and we mean business: SC to Centre

 The Bench asked the Centre to comply and not force the Bench to take coercive action; the order is expected to be uploaded by 3 P.M today

Maharashtra: Thane Standing Committee request vaccine centres inside residential societies

On the same day that BKC centres suffered a stampede, Thane Municipal Corporation’s (TMC) Standing Committee asked the municipal body to set up vaccine centres inside housing societies to avoid crowding at a single centre.

Biden-Harris administration backs IPR flexibility for Covid vaccine

Move will help production of the vaccine in developing nations thereby enabling their availability to a larger number of people

Siddique Kappan “secretly” discharged from AIIMS, taken to Mathura jail 

The journalist, who was diagnosed as Covid-19 positive was receiving treatment at the Delhi hospital, but was reportedly discharged without informing his family or lawyer, alleges wife

Centre moves SC against K’taka HC order to increase State’s oxygen quota

While the Centre had increased the quota to 965MT, the court directed that it be increased to 1200MT on an ad hoc basis until Centre reconsiders

Covid-19: Scientists say a third wave is inevitable; is India prepared?

Government seems busy with ‘effective communications’ when an emergency response is needed

Mamata Banerjee demands payment of arrears to farmers under central financial schemes

The West Bengal Chief Minister has written to the Prime Minister showcasing how despite the state government taking all measures, the Centre has still not released funds under various financial assistance schemes approved for eligible farmers

Covid-19: Assam struggles as 90 Tea Garden workers test positive

Eight wards in Guwahati declared hotspots, state records highest single day death toll this year; new restrictions announced

What is the purpose of Tejasvi Surya’s communal tilt to BBMP “bed blocking scam”?

The MP gets filmed reading out only muslim names, claiming an 'expose' of Covid bed scam, controversy is now taking attention away from Covid-19 surge in the state

Manipur: CCM applauds HC order allowing safe passage to Myanmar refugees

The people’s group requested central and state governments to uphold humanitarian rights and obligations

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One Death Every Few Days, Zero Accountability: Sanitation workers protest at Jantar Mantar

From disputed death figures to continuing caste-based labour, the Safai Karmachari Andolan says India's sewer deaths are not accidents but preventable killings enabled by state inaction

From Civil Registration to Identity Control: Parliament tightens India’s birth certificate regime without debate

A quiet amendment shifts delayed birth and death registrations from executive officers to judicial magistrates, further hardening India's identity regime while offering little evidence that the new barriers are necessary

‘Deportation Cannot Begin without Nationality Verification’: Union’s Rajubala affidavit clarifies legal limits on executive power

In an affidavit filed in the Rajubala Das case, the Union reaffirms that deportation requires nationality verification, travel documents and acceptance by the receiving State, while setting out the legal framework governing detention pending deportation

Brij Bhushan Acquittal: The system vs the wrestlers

Three years after their protest shook Indian sport, Vinesh Phogat and other wrestlers prepare for another legal battle over a verdict they reject