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Rights group files complaint over electoral roll purges in North 24 Parganas

A formal complaint has been lodged with the Election Commission of India over what rights activists describe as arbitrary and unconstitutional deletions of bona fide citizens from the electoral...

Election Commission officers should probably be booked for murder: Madras HC

The court slammed the EC officials for allowing election rallies amid the deadly pandemic and failing to ensure Covid-19 protocol

Twitter removes posts critical of gov’t handling of Covid-19 emergency

The suspended accounts are of activists, politicians, who which have called out the way the government has let the Covid-19 crisis worsen

Siddique Kappan ‘chained like an animal in hospital’: Wife writes to CJI Ramana

Siddique, after taking a fall in the bathroom, also believes his jaw is broken and is not able to eat

Farmers appeal to police to open Delhi border roads in face of Covid-crisis

Farmers have begun setting up camps for vaccination and other essential services at all protest sites while also distributing masks and other protective gear

Muslim advocacy group’s tweet comparing Kumbh Mela with Tablighi Jamaat blocked

IAMC has been criticising the Modi regime’s mismanagement of the Covid-19 pandemic, now it finds itself among over 50 others whose Tweets were blocked

Birthday greetings, dear Fr. Stan!

A letter to the jailed human rights activist on his 84th birthday

Probe claims of Rona Wilson’s laptop being hacked: Sudha Bharadwaj’s family and friends

Following cyber forensics reports by internationally-acclaimed Arsenal Consulting firm, friends and family of Sudha Bharadwaj demanded an independent examination into the findings

We have ensured nobody was left without oxygen in the country: Centre to Delhi HC

The court was hearing another oxygen shortage plea filed by Maharaja Agrasen Hospitals; matter adjourned to April 26

Covishield vaccine the costliest in India?  

With the new announcement of Rs. 600 per dose in private hospitals, Indians could end up paying the highest price for a single shot in the world

Minority miracle frontline workers leading battle against Coronavirus in Maharashtra

Concerned citizens have started a coordinated effort to ensure oxygen supply to patients and requested government backing for their initiative

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