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JNU Students Lathi-charged, Injured, first detained during protest over V-C remarks, UGC Equity guidelines, now Jailed

Fourteen of hundreds of protesting students from the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) were sent to Tihar Jail on Friday, February 27 after a late night brutal lathi charge by the Delhi police on February 26, attacking a student protest and long march aimed to march towards the Ministry of Education; protesters were demanding the resignation of Vice Chancellor (VC) JNU Ms Pandit who had made derogative remarks against Dalits and Blacks recently

Nehru and the culture of ‘Scientific Temper’

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Remembering Balbir Singh Sr

Was this Indian hockey idol denied his due allegedly for being a Sikh?

Concerns about targeting of minorities in India raised at US Congressional Briefing

Briefing highlights violation of rights of minorities, especially Muslims, and draws attention to the recommendations of the USCIRF

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An Interview with C.T. Abdurahim

No Sudhir Zee, Covid 19 is a disease, not a war, those infected are patients, not warriors 

Zee news should also disclose how many more people their infected employees had come in contact with before they were hospitalised.

The preservation of a pandemic: Art under quarantine

Museums, zoos and galleries around the world are calling on people to document their Covid-19 lockdown experience

U’khand HC: Children with no internet access cannot be forced to pay tuition fee

Unaided private schools in the state were charging fees and conducting online classes for KG level as well

Being a journalist in Gujarat is a tightrope walk over a sea of fire

Ahmedabad-based editor arrested, charged with sedition, reporters barred from reporting, sends 'sarkari' message loud and clear

SC reserves order on Arnab Goswami’s petition seeking transfer of probe to CBI  

The Bench tells him to move High Court if he wants to have his FIR quashed in the Bandra migrants case

Remembering the uprising

The losing battle fought by Bahadur Shah Zafar's men and the barbarism of 'civilised' colonists  

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