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Washed Away by Floods, Targeted by the State: Hamela Khatun’s fight for citizenship

CJP’s team helped Hamela piece together a lifetime of evidence — from 1950s land documents to contemporary electoral rolls — to establish beyond doubt that she is, and always has been, an Indian citizen

American Bar Association asks courts to uphold India’s moral and legal obligations and release Safoora Zargar

The Association’s Center for Human Rights has deemed her detention to be in contrast with international human rights standards

Surat ban beaten by locals, forcibly evicted from rented home on suspicion of Covid-19

Sanjay Sharma had lost his job at a catering firm in Surat and moved in with his friends as he couldn’t afford to pay rent at his prior residence

Police fail to file chargesheet, Amulya Leona gets bail

She was thrown in jail for shouting allegedly pro-Pakistan slogans at a rally, earlier this year

The Doctor is not needed. Please be seated

​​​​​​​The political, economic, social decisions taken during the pandemic have also exposed other chronic illnesses – those of monumental inequity and inequality, those of crumbling human rights in the face of brutal oppression, those of apathy and arrogance, those of utter humiliation and helplessness! Should we wait for another pandemic to be competent Social and Political Doctors?

Shortages of doctors, blood as healthcare crisis grows in Gujarat

With nurses protesting and fatality rate going up, Covid's grip tightens around the state

Jharkhand’s surrendered Naxals get gov’t grants

While two former naxals got Rs. 4 lakh each, 11 others got Rs. 2 lakh each

Defy, resist, combat: Farmers’ unions call for massive mobilisation

All India Kisan Sabha, All India Agricultural Workers’ Union and Centre of Indian Trade Unions will lead a nationwide mass movement on August 9

Assam police sends anti-CAA protestors from KMSS to home quarantine

The police alleged that the violators had violated lockdown norms

46 farmers protesting land grab and damage to crops detained in Gujarat

The farmers were protesting the compensation offered to them for the Vadodara Mumbai Expressway

Home quarantine patients to be tracked using mobile data? 

The government has also asked for the development of a GPS wrist watch for violators of home quarantine

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