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Jamia students reject conditional election assurance, two continue hunger strike
After 14 days of agitation, the university has promised polls 15 days after the approval of a union constitution, but offers no deadline for that approval and demands a public apology from protesters
Social Justice remains elusive 33 years after Mandal Movement
Mandal Day celebrations are being held across the country....
Asserting the principle of federalism, Kerala CM releases revised textbooks restoring chapters removed by NCERT
CM Pinarayi Vijayan flags bias in new national curriculum, reintroduces chapters on Mughals, assassination of Gandhi.
While Modi plays the OBC card, backward castes & Adivasis remain excluded from Central University
The premier educational institutes of the country continue to exclude marginalised communities. According to the latest figures, the constitutionally-mandated reservation policies are not fully implemented in 45 central universities.
Blocking of Kashmir Walla condemned: NWMI
The Network of Women in Media (NWMI) has condemned the latent censorship in the act of blocking the Kashmir Walla
UP: Scribe Faces FIR for Highlighting School Textbooks Meant for Poor Kids Being Sold as Scrap
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An education department official, whose comments were sought by the journalist, claimed the purported video sent to him was an attempt to “tarnish” the image of the government and department.
DUJ Protests freezing of media accounts
The Delhi Union of Journalists has registered its strong protest at the repeated moves to muffle media voices in several parts of the country.
A historic discomfort: RSS & Ambedkar’s Constitution
When the country was celebrating its 77th Independence Day,...
Massive minority scholarship (Ministry of Minority Affairs) scam raises questions about actual beneficaries
Fake institutions, exaggerated numbers who have claimed scholarship funds all point to a huge corruption snag in funds disbursal in a ministry of the union government
One more case of centralisation & executive overreach: Press & Registration of Periodicals Bill, 2023
From powers of search and seizure, a plethora of provisions threatens media freedoms
Is Ashoka univ “falling short of its Declared Vision? 300 + academics stand up for Sabyasachi Das
"It is clear from this sequence of events that what was at stake was not the academic merit of his paper, but the threat it posed to the ruling party. There has been no detailed academic counter to this paper, only ad hominem attacks in the public."
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Nearly two decades without elections, Jamia students’ agitation forces administration to set deadline for union revival
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Arunachal’s anti-dam protests intensify as arrests, militarisation and threats to press freedom fail to silence resistance
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India
Food Security during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Need for a shift from food security to nutrition justice.
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India
Delhi SIR: Public audit finds 416 of 1,236 deleted voters still at their registered addresses
A four-day door-to-door audit in Trilokpuri found voters marked absent, shifted or dead who were still living at their registered addresses, with 47.57 lakh names missing from Delhi’s draft roll, affected voters have until October 30 to file claims
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2020 Delhi Riots: Delhi High Court upholds seven-year sentence for five men in 22-year old Muslim migrant worker’s death
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