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SIR and the Making of a Stateless Citizen? | R. Rajagopal Speaks Out | Teesta Setalvad
Veteran journalist and former Editor of The Telegraph, R. Rajagopal, found himself excluded from West Bengal's electoral rolls during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process. What followed, he says,...
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The group of progressive organisations decries the state government for failing to prepare for the second wave of Covid-19.
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Oxygen tanker leak kills 22 patients in Nashik
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