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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,...

Farmers’ struggle, a battle against a single party’s communal thoughts: Punjab SKM leaders

Farmer leaders condemned Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the biggest liar, who will steadily lose respect across the world.

Easter at Taloja Jail: Stan’s Cross

It is Holy Saturday 2021! Christians, in an age-old...

Protection of FCIs, a matter of food growers’ future: AIKMS

Farmers and workers warned that the new changes in FCI rules along with the three farm laws will further adversely impact India’s hunger situation.

Vandals attack Rakesh Tikait’s convoy in Alwar, Rajasthan

The farmer leader was attending kisan panchayats in the state on Friday afternoon when the incident took place

UP: Dalit youth brutally attacked, 3 men arrested

Members of an "upper-caste" family viciously attacked a 22-year-old Dalit, severely injuring his private parts

NHRC closes case over illegal arrest of Siddique Kappan

It has directed the SP, Hathras to complete the investigation, noting that allegations in the complaint over his arrest could not be substantiated

Domestic violence survivor rescued, AIUFWP thanks lawyers and activists

AIUFWP has claimed the UP police attempted to kidnap the woman-son duo from Kerala and forcefully take them to UP to the abusive husband

Punjab: Life convicts can avail remission under revised remission policy

The Remission Policy 2021, is expected to remove ambiguities of the previous policy

Have the courts not learnt anything about medical bail?

Father Stan Swamy’s bail was rejected and he will have to undertake the tedious process that Dr. Varavara Rao went through

Terrified by MSP Loot Calculator, the Centre is speaking half-truths: JKA

Responding to government claims of higher paddy procurement in 2021, farmers said that a majority of rice-growers still cannot avail MSP benefits

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