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Dr Sangram Patil detained by Mumbai Crime Branch, move sharply condemned

A British citizen, doctor and consultant with the NHS, it is reported that Dr Patil was detained (arrested) with his wife as he landed at the Mumbai airport this afternoon

Maharashtra Farmers Set Off on Long March Again, to ‘Fight Till Last Drop of Blood’

The farmers will resume the march after the state government didn’t respond to their demand for compensation for crops damaged by untimely rains and hailstorms.

ABVP gang run riot disrupt academic session on Constitution & NEP: Odisha

In keeping with their unconstitutional mode of functioning, hundreds of ABVP ‘activists’ barge in, disrupt a seminar being conducted by Prof Surajit Mazumdar from JNU

Lakhimpur Kheri case: SC questions HC order granting bail to Ashish Mishra, reserves order on challenge

The apex court also questioned the examination of evidence while granting bail to Union Minister’s son Ashish Mishra

Assam Police Firing: Support for victims grows

12-hour Bandh in Assam, and protest by the Congress party even as nearly 3,000 police and paramilitary personnel are deployed to “maintain peace”

India and the Myanmar crisis: Death of Justice, Death of Morality

After alienating the people of India’s north east, the BJP regime’s violative policy Myanmaar refugees threatens to alienate the country from neighbours to our east, apart from violating our time-tested, human rights and humanitarian driven  approach towards asylum-seekers

Mitti satyagraha begins on the same day as the historic salt satyagraha!

The march will be carried out in two phases and will conclude at Delhi protest sites where the soil will be used to build memorials for martyrs

Eminent Hindi poet and journalist Manglesh Dabral passes away 

He had returned his Sahitya Akademi Award National award in 2015 to protest against "communal" atmosphere and "rising intolerance" 

Delhi Court dismisses plea of Gulfisha Fatima and 2 others booked under UAPA seeking statutory bail

The Karkardooma Court dismissed the applications of 3 student activists arrested in the Delhi riots case in April and June on grounds that the charge sheet was filed within the extended time period and that the applications had no merit.

Freedom Fighter’s daughter being dragged before Assam FT!

70-year-old Seje Bala Ghosh is ailing, has a broken arm and living in abject poverty

Jayaraj-Benniks custodial death: Madras HC refuses bail of SHO accused of instigating torture

The court said that there was prima facie material to establish the crime and the petitioner could tamper with witnesses

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The Allahabad High Court recently struck down a 2021 decision of the District Level Committee (DLC), Lakhimpur upholding the land rights of the Tharu tribe while observing that the authorities cannot short-circuit the existing statutory rights of the forest dwellers by blindly relying on court orders issued before the enactment of the Forest Rights Act, 2006 (FRA, 2006). This law recognises the individual and community rights of Adivasis.

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Police action in Odisha’s Rayagada district condemned, Adivasi rights paramount: CCG

The Constitutional Conduct Group (CCG) in an Open Letter to the President of India has condemned Odisha police’s wrongful dispossession of Adivasi lands in the state and violent action against protesting tribals

Bihar “Infiltrator” Hysteria: Samrat Choudhary’s claims of disenfranchising 22-lakh people corresponds to ECI’s “deceased voters” figure

Over the past weeks—even before replacing Nitish Kumar as Chief Minister of Bihar on April 15—Samrat Choudhary has, while campaigning for the Bharatiya Janata Party, claimed that 22-lakh people would be struck off Bihar’s electoral rolls, with their driving licences and other benefits cancelled. The irony, however, is this: the figure of 22-lakh—drawn from the recently conducted, controversial SIR exercise in the state—corresponds only to deceased voters

Nationality under SIR Scrutiny: Kargil warrior questioned after 21 years of service

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