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Though sewer deaths have crossed the 100 mark this year, government is silent: SKA

With three deaths on the same day in two different incidents in Madhya Pradesh, 101 people have died so far in sewers and septic tanks across the country in 188 days this year, according the data compiled by Safai Karamchari Andolan (SKA). NCR Delhi alone accounts for 12 deaths.

India revises stand on HCQ, concerns about efficacy remain

Government permits use by healthcare and frontline workers, though warns against “sense of false security”

Fake machines, theft and apathy mar Gujarat’s Covid-19 fight

With 12,905 cases and rising, what will come of the much touted Gujarat Model?

All Assam Students’ Union protests coal mining in Dehing Patkai forest

The Dehing Patkai forest is also known as the Amazon of the East

Bihari barber dubbed Bangladeshi in Assam, CJP helps secure release

Lalit Thakur had been languishing in a detention camp since October 2016

Unhappy over Covid-19 safeguards Kolkata cops protest, allegedly attack DCP

The cops of the combat force said their barracks hadn’t been sanitized after an officer tested positive there

Allahabad: Retired judges, lawyers, professors and activists write to PM about migrant crisis

Condemn sudden suspension of all railway and interstate bus transport on March 21 as thoughtless

Release all Political Prisoners in J & K before Eid: Concerned Citizens

The intimidation of media personnel must also stop and the govt must extend the same bank loan deferment facilities to J&K businesses like the rest of India

Pray at home: Mosques urge citizens to offer namaaz at home on Eid

EId-Ul-Fitr is set to be celebrated in India on either May 24 or May 25, depending on the sighting of the moon

‘Maids should not touch lift buttons’: Gurgaon RWA exposes its racist, classist soul

Along with the communal virus, the caste and class viruses too have had a resurrection under the cover of the Coronavirus 2020. All three do not have a cure, or a vaccine yet.

Rumours of two additional trains to north India brings hordes of migrants to Bandra Terminus

There was only one train scheduled from Bandra to Bihar, but migrants say they had received information of two more trains going to north India

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Though sewer deaths have crossed the 100 mark this year, government is silent: SKA

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