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‘Designed to Exclude’: The ongoing enumeration phase of the SIR

In a multi-state report on the hasty and ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process being conducted by the ECI, the PUCL has, echoing what opposition parties and other civil rights groups been stating, called it ‘designed to excluide’

14 cops, priest test Covid-19 positive in Ayodhya

A ‘bhoomi-poojan’ is scheduled to take place at the site of the Ram Temple on August 5

First Covid, now floods; NRC work still on hold in Assam

Given the twin blows, the process of issuing rejection slips has been delayed even further in the state

GN Saibaba denied bail to see his dying mother

Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court has rejects temporary bail to the former DU prof, now a serving a life sentence

Corona warriors adorn walls of Mahim Jn

Portraits of essential service workers painted to honour those who kept working through the pandemic

Prof Hany Babu is NIA’s 12th arrest in Bhima Koregaon case

He is the third person to be arrested during the Covid-19 lockdown after Prof Anand Tentumble and writer Gautam Navlakha

Nat woman denied cremation at ‘upper’ caste funeral ground in UP

Family was forced to remove the body from the pyre, and local officials appeared to support caste-based segregation “to maintain peace and tranquility”

How is Varavara Rao’s health?

The 80-year-old undertrail poet, a Covid-19 patient, has been in hospital for 12 days, and his family is yet to get any official update

What lies behind the high walls of Indian prisons?

A look at how or if, the seemingly opaque conditions in Indian prisons are being monitored by authorities, and with what degree of transparency and accountability

33rd person released from Assam Detention Camp due to CJP’s efforts

Declared foreigner while serving a 10-year sentence for an unrelated matter, Jabed Ali also spent 2 years in detention camp

GN Saibaba gets medical care, khichdi, is safe from Covid: Maharashtra govt

The state has opposed GN Saibaba’s bail plea saying he gets adequate medical care, food, and is safe in his cell

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