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Proposed Amendments to Gujarat Marriage Registration Rules Unconstitutional: NAJAR, NAPM
Members of National Alliance for Justice, Accountability and Rights (NAJAR - Gujarat) - a pan Indian collective of progressive lawyers and law professionals and the National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM Gujarat), along with many civil society organisations of the state have strongly objected to the proposed amendments to the Gujarat Registration of Marriages Rules, 2006, notified on February 20, 2026
Only political vendetta can explain Varavara Rao’s incarceration
The revolutionary poet contracted Covid-19 while in jail facing trumped up charges like 'waging war against the nation'
NHRC demands report on Varavara Rao’s health, jail condition
National Human Rights Commission issues notices to Maharashtra Chief Secretary and Director General (Prisons) seeking report within two weeks
Save his life: Poets and writers appeal to President of India to help Varavara Rao
Rao (79) is suffering from Covid-19, contracted due to abysmal conditions at Taloja jail, says family
Gauhati HC grants Akhil Gogoi bail in three cases
The peasants’ rights activist tested positive for Covid-19 recently, and has hearings coming up in NIA cases
Vernon Gonsalves, Anand Teltumbde ask to be tested for Covid-19
The jailed activists move Bombay High Court saying they were in close contact with poet Varavara Rao who recently tested positive
Varavara Rao tests Covid-19 positive!
The 79-year-old has been in jail since 2018, in connection with the Elgaar Parishad case. Family calls it criminal negligence of the State.
Tharu Adivasis emerge resilient, return to farmlands
Community members, undeterred by the oppression of forest officials who assaulted them for tilling land, ares back in the fields with their agricultural implements
Dalit couple attempt suicide after forceful eviction, police brutality
The state government has sacked the District Collector and SP after a video of the brutal attacks by the police on the couple went viral
Gov’t justifies higher GST on sanitisers!
Finance Ministry fails to allay fears about price increase, instead says lower GST puts domestic manufacturers at disadvantage by making imports cheaper
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Activists, journalists and human rights defenders talk about what ails the people of UP and how they must be helped
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Proposed Amendments to Gujarat Marriage Registration Rules Unconstitutional: NAJAR, NAPM
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