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Policing Identity: Maharashtra’s birth certificate crackdown and the politics of belonging
What is framed as an administrative clean-up of fraudulent records in Maharashtra has unfolded into a securitised campaign in Mumbai — raising urgent constitutional questions about due process, discrimination, and the weaponisation of civil documentation
When laws meant to be emancipatory become weapons of the regime: Teesta Setalvad
Full text of the Rabi Ray Memorial Lecture delivered by Teesta Setalvad in Bhubaneswar on November 26, 2022
Anti-Adani Kerala sea port protest: 3,000 booked over alleged police station attack at Vizhinjam, all-party meeting today
While the police has stated that the protesters had provoked the violence, the representative of the protesters’ has stated that the “violence was scripted by the ruling party with help of the BJP”
UP: Farmers Remind PM Modi of His Promises, Warn of Delhi-like Protest in Entire Country
SKM, an umbrella body of farmers’ unions, which spearheaded the one-year-long agitation against the farm laws, has also called a general body meeting on December 8 to decide the future course of the movement.
Supreme Court upholds Anand Teltumbde’s bail, Says will not Interfere
The Special Leave Petition filed by the NIA was dismissed by the CJI led SC Bench
UP: Azamgarh BJP MP Allegedly Threatened to ‘Break Knees’ of Villagers Protesting Airport Expansion
After protesters, including SKM, demanded retraction, Dinesh Lal Yadav ‘Nirahua’ reportedly clarified he meant no one should take law & order into own hands.
Zameen Prapt Sangharsh Commitee conducts 10 day hunger strike outside DC Office in Sangrur
The Zameen Prapt Sangharsh commitee launched a 10 day...
Number of PM-KISAN Beneficiaries drops by two-thirds from first instalment to 11th: RTI disclosure
A response to an RTI inquiry filed by activist Kanhaiya Kumar, the Union Agriculture Ministry has admitted that while the first Rs 2,000 instalment under the scheme was disbursed to 11.84 crore farmers in 2019, only 3.87 crore farmers received the 11th instalment this year
Assam: Forest guards shoot at woodcutters during patrol; one dead
The injured person is still undergoing treatment at the hospital and a third person is untraceable since the incident
A surveillance regime that violates both Privacy & Right to Life: Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2002
Proscribing entirely an individual citizens’ right to privacy and control over personal data, the ‘deemed consent’ provisions along with other provisions of the Bill weaponise the state to be the ultimate arbiter
K’taka: ‘cow urine’ used to purify tank as Dalit woman drank water from it
This incident happened in Heggotara Village of Chamarajanagar District in Karnataka.
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