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Karnataka: SIR Interrogated
A report, The SIR Investigation Report—A Narrative of Betrayal and Tears was released by the Anti-SIR Alliance and the Citizens’ Vote Protection Committee today; the report documents the (mal) implementation of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Karnataka
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UP: Farmers Remind PM Modi of His Promises, Warn of Delhi-like Protest in Entire Country
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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
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