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Justice Madan Lokur: ‘Passport Reduced to a Bus Ticket’, ECI an “Empire within an Empire’
Justice Madan B. Lokur Former Judge, Supreme Court of India was speaking, last week at a conclave in Delhi, Lokur said, that to say that a passport is nothing...
Symbolic protest: Gujarat farmers ‘sow’ potato seed PepsiCo claims it had developed
In a symbolic protest against PepsiCo, which had filed...
All is not well for the Mid-Day Meal Scheme in India
The beginning of the second week of the Parliament’s winter session witnessed questions regarding the government’s Mid-Day Meal Scheme (MDMS), the responses to which can be regarded as a report card on MDMS.
Only 8 states use the Institutional Support for Tribal Produce scheme
In what appears to be a double body blow to rights of indigenous people and forest dwelling communities, it appears that not only has the government failed to implement the Forest Rights Act, it has also been unsuccessful when it comes to implementing provisions of the Institutional Support for Tribal Produce scheme.
They told me three days, but I was released after three months: RTI activist Raja Bhat
He was unlawfully detained in the wake of the government’s decision to abrogate Article 370
Unnao accident witness claims murder bid on self
Awadhesh Singh says he was attacked by a truck the same way that the Unnao rape case survivor was attacked in July this year
Assam’s Detention Camps are akin to Germany’s Concentration Camps: Thinkers
A cross-section of thinkers and literary personalities came out against Assam’s Detention camps, demanded their closure and halt to construction of the proposed new one at Goalpara stating that 823 of the 938 persons languishing without fair trial are Assamese citizens
Assam migrant labourer forced to rot in detention camp for going to Delhi in search of a job!
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Migrant labourer declared ‘foreigner’ for going to Delhi in search of a job!
India ranks first in child deaths under 5 years of age: UNICEF report
Despite multiple health schemes running in parallel and many of these focusing on primary health care of children, India is falling behind; it’s time to examine lacunae in implementation
Suspected Bangladeshi sent to Bengal by Karnataka police without trial clueless about their future
Karnataka police picked up 61 people including 15 minors and 25, mostly rag pickers on suspicion of them being Bangladeshi. Without producing them to the court, they have sent them to West Bengal to hand them over to the border security forces, who in turn will hand to the Border Guards of Bangladesh. However of 61 individuals arrested, 59 have been sent to Bengal, while 2 have been kept back in Karnataka only
Seven Detainees of Bongaigaon District released from Goalpara Detention camp
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