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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

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

Working without payment since lockdown, resident doctors threaten to resign en masse

Kasturba Hospital, started in 1905, is now one of the largest of its kind in the country, it  is under the Bharatiya Janata Party-led North Delhi Municipal Corporation 

Ex-civil servants decry vilification of Harsh Mander for speech during anti-CAA protests

The former government officials allege that Mander’s speech was misconstrued for being hate speech and inciting violence

‘Convenient racism’, says Irfan Pathan, pointing to discrimination based on faith and colour

One of the biggest names in contemporary Indian cricket bravely called this ‘convenient racism’, perhaps the only celebrity to do so in recent times

AIKS congratulates farmers on protests against anti-farmer ordinances issued by Centre

Protests held across the country saw farmers burning copies of the ordinances

NGT imposes 25 crore interim penalty in Dahej chemical factory blast incident: Gujarat

The Tribunal has held the company strictly and absolutely liable for the damage caused to life and environment

Rural stay-safe campaign curbs spread of coronavirus cases, fosters communal harmony

The campaign was started by Maulana Adam Shafiullah and Abdur Rauf who went door to door to give correct knowledge of precautions to be taken in Dinhata, West Bengal

Dalit men assaulted, paraded with footwear around their neck in Uttar Pradesh

There has been no media outrage on the incident and no culprits have been caught yet

Covid-19 is a political Pandemic in Delhi

Passive aggressive political mood swings continue even as number of cases double every fortnight 

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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

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Sexual minority coalitions across the country and civil liberties groups have strongly opposed the 2026 Amendment to the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill that dilutes and nullifies the 2019 law

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