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Books Under Siege: Bengal’s Left bookstalls, the Calcutta High Court’s intervention and the warning from Hitler’s Germany

The bulldozer retreated, and the court offered temporary relief. But who gets to decide which ideas can occupy Bengal’s public spaces?

90% Of Jobs Created Over Two Decades Post-Liberalisation Were Informal

Mumbai: Of around 61 million jobs created in India...

Rediscovering Ambedkar to Fight Against Hindutva

"You wouldn’t understand my deep anguish and sadness. I...

Religious Indoctrination Through Midday Meals

The Akshaya Patra Foundation (TAPF),  a sister concern of...

EXCLUSIVE! Student Union members forcing people to file false NRC Objections in Assam

In several shocking instances of the abuse and subversion...

5% rise in infant and child deaths in Mumbai

Local experts claimed lack of government outreach programmes such...

Assam NRC: SC firm on Deadline even as “Fake” Objections emerge

The Supreme Court has directed Prateek Hajela, the State...

Massive Loot of Poor in the Name of Bank Charges

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Calcutta High Court says political dissent must not be stifled, directs police to protect CPI(M) bookstall near Durga Puja Pandal

Justice Saugata Bhattacharya stresses that democracy requires space for competing political ideologies, directing West Bengal Police to ensure the Left party can set up its traditional bookstall amid allegations of preferential treatment for the Hindu Jagran Manch.

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Mumbai Police detain Ambedkarite leaders demanding justice for Sahil Wakode; IIT Bombay refuses to hear delegation

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