For the past two weeks, even as visits by high political functionaries continued, Kashmiri Pandit (KP) families in the Kashmiri valley have alleged callous neglect Sabrangindia 15 Oct 2022 Image Courtesy: hindustantimes.com This morning's tweet by the Kashmiri Pandit Sangharsh Samiti (KPSS), tells a continuing sordid tale. Even as news of continued attacks by insurgents have continued to rise, the tiny Kashmiri Pandit community in the valley continues to be the most vulnerable. 'Another KP non-migrant killed at Chowdhary Gund in Shopiyan .

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he 15-year-old boy from Uttar Pradesh has been allegedly beaten ruthlessly by a teacher, died as a result CJP Team 29 Sep 2022 Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) have filed a complaint with the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC)seeking greater protection for the family of the 15-year-old Dalit boy, Nikhit Dohre from Uttar Pradesh who succumbed to his injuries after being allegedly thrashed mercilessly with sticks and rods, by an 'upper caste' teacher. CJP's complaint also seeks stringent action against the alleged perpetrator, who is still not behind the bars, fair investigation and monitoring of the prosecution.

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Neha Khan 06 Sep 2022 New Delhi: BJP leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa has filed a police complaint against fact checker and co-founder of Alt News website Mohammed Zubair, accusing him of 'spreading hate' against cricketer Arshdeep Singh and the Sikh community with his tweet. The player became a victim of vicious trolling on social media after he dropped a catch during India's five-wicket loss to arch-rival Pakistan in the Super four match of the Asia Cup in Dubai on Sunday. In his complaint filed at the Parliament Street police station, Sirsa cited a tweet by Zubair where he had shared screenshots of tweets against Singh posted on various handles.

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It's a two-front battle for Punjab's farmers, against the Centre and the state's Aam Aadmi Party government. Both have made promises to farmers that they have still not kept. File Photo. Punjab's farmers are battling the central government to make it fulfil the promises made to them, but they have also had to open another front against the Bhagwant Mann-led Aam Aadmi Party state government. They suspended their movement against the three farm laws on the borders of Delhi over a year ago, but are mobilising against the Prime Minister Narendra Modi government to fulfil its promises made at the time.

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Heavy police deployment to maintain law and order Sabrangindia 12 Sep 2022 The court of district judge Ajay Krishna Vishvesha is expected to pronounce its judgment in the matter pertaining to the maintainability of the Shringar Gauri – Gyanvapi case today. Basically, the court is expected to rule if the suit brought up by Hindu women, who want to offer prayers at the temple of Shringar Gauri on the premises of the Gyanvapi mosque that stands adjacent to the Kashi Vishwanath temple, is maintainable under Order 7 Rule 11 of the Civil Procedure Code.

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Allahabad HC had dismissed a plea to appoint a commission headed by a judge to determine nature of structure found in the Gyanvapi mosque's ablution tank Sabrangindia 08 Aug 2022 In latest developments in the Gyanvapi case, a plea has been filed before the Supreme Court challenging an order by the Allahabad High Court that had dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) demanding that a commission be set up under a serving or retired Supreme Court or High Court judge to examine the structure found in the Gyanvapi mosque's Wazu Khana (ablution tank) to determine if it is indeed a 'Shivling', or just a defunct fountain.

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Well-wishers including fellow activists, students and ordinary citizens are sending postcards CJP Team 05 Aug 2022 Even as journalist, educationist and human rights defender Teesta Setalvad remains incarcerated at the Sabarmati Jail in Ahmedabad, on trumped up charges, foisted upon her by a vindictive regime, there has been no dearth of support for her. Every day, dozens of postcards are being delivered to her. The writers include her well-wishers, partner organisations from across the country and even school students who are part of CJP's Khoj – a secular education program taught in middle-schools in different states.

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The HC order instructing the Punjab Government to investigate the missing report of the Justice Gurnam Sing Commission Report, bringing relief to the families of the four killed in unlawful police firing over three decades ago Sabrangindia 24 Sep 2022 After 36 years, the families of the four young men who were killed by police in the Nakodar neighborhood of Punjab will experience deliverance of substantive justice. On September 22, the Punjab and Haryana high court sent a notice to the Punjab government instructing them to form a special investigation team (SIT) to look into the "missing" portion of the Justice Gurnam Singh Commission Report in an effort to ensure justice and the truth for the relatives of those killed in the Nakodar police firing of 1986, known in Punjabi as "Saka Nakodar.

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Protesters alleged that not even a single family evicted in demolition drives since the onset of pandemic has been rehabilitated in the capital. Tuesday's demonstration was jointly called by multiple organisations including Mazdoor Awas Sangharsh Samiti. | Image by Ronak Chhabra. New Delhi: Land-owning agencies have come under fire for failing to design a uniform rehabilitation policy and finding a solution to the vexed issue of slum resettlement in the city even as unabated anti-encroachment drives are pushing the affected families to the margin.

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There are 162,229 Waqf properties, including 1,50,000 registered with Sunni Central Waqf Board and 12,229 with Shia Central Waqf Board in UP, with the government occupying quite a few of these. Representational use only.Image Courtesy: Wikimedia Commons Lucknow: Amid the ongoing surveys of unrecognised madrasas across Uttar Pradesh, the Yogi Adityanath government has ordered a survey of properties managed by Sunni and Shia Central Waqf Boards in what the government says is an attempt aimed at preventing illegal encroachment of the properties in the state.

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Social media fuels and amplifies onground violence in Leicester, UK, a thorough investigation by the BBC reveals Sabrangindia 26 Sep 2022 Image courtesy: Andrew Fox/The Guardian A BBC Investigation, Did misinformation fan the flames in Leicester? reveals how much of the genesis of the recent violence in Leicester, United Kingdom was fueled by deliberate misinformation, posted online. Tracing the social media role in heightening ground level tensions even violence, the BBC team (Reha Kansara and Abdirrahim Saeed assisted by ground level reporting by Yasminara Khan, Ahmed Nour, Khush Sameja, Shruti Menon, Ned Davies, Joshua Cheetham and Daniele Palumbo) has pointed out how the spiral of violence that climaxed between September 17-18, 2022 had also been fed previously by heightened social media activity around August 28 and months before that, in May 2022.

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Due to his journalistic activities, Maulvi Baqar was tied to the mouth of a large gun and blown to bits at Delhi Gate, said one of the speakers. Image Courtesy: Wikimedia Commons Delhi: There is a need today to popularise the sacrifice of Maulvi Mohammad Baqar, the first journalist to have been martyred by the then British government for his role in the 1857 rebellion through his newspaper Delhi Urdu Akhbar, said noted writer and academic Syed Asghar Wajahat on Friday. Delivering the first Maulvi Mohammad Baqar Memorial Lecture, organised by the Press Club of India, Wajahat, former professor of Hindi, Jamia Millia University, said that Maulvi Baqar's contributions in the field of journalism must be propagated through various languages to make the nation aware of his works.

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It tells civil society and opposition outfits to join hands and raise democratic movements to push back Hindutva forces. Pragya Singh 02 Sep 2022 The Supreme Court is hearing renowned activist Teesta Setalvad's application for interim bail. Gujarat Police arrested her on 25 June, a day after the Supreme Court's veiled but critical observations in 2002 Gujarat riot victim Zakia Jafri's case that all involved in the 'abuse of process need to be…proceeded against in accordance with law'. The key allegation of the police against Teesta is that she conspired to implicate powerful people, including then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, in the riot-related investigations.

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There are many reasons why the remission in the Bilkis Bano rape-murder cases stand apart. Not least is the need to bring consistency in the State's words and deeds, and correct arbitary actions. Sabrangindia 27 Aug 2022 Bilkis Bano at a press conference. Image Courtesy: National Herald The Supreme Court has asked for the Gujarat government's response to a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) challenging the remission of eleven convicts in the Bilkis Bano case. The court has asked the petitioners, CPI(M) leader Subhashini Ali, journalist Revathy Laul and activist Roop Rekha Verma, to implead the eleven released convicts in their application.

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The latest objection to granting union membership to a contractual worker at Bellsonica has called for attention to the question of whether contract workers can be unionised. Last year, the employees' union at Bellsonica Auto Components Private Limited granted membership to a contractual worker. Image courtesy - Facebook New Delhi: In what is set to bring an old challenge faced by the country's labour movement to the fore, the Haryana government has recently flagged the admission of a contractual worker in the employees' union at one Manesar-situated auto parts manufacturing unit while terming the move to be 'illegal'.

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Uday Narkar 07 Oct 2022 Image: https://www.facebook.com/cpimcc It was a moment hard to define. Kumar's inert body lay around lifeless. It was a loss that his Adivasi and non-Adivasi near and dear ones were simply not ready to accept. All had gathered in huge numbers, traveling overnight from far and near, Adivasis, among whom he had spent half a century.  Women wailed asking in unison, ‘Kumarbhau, parat ya (Brother Kumar, please come back). In that sea of tens of hundreds of humans, a  large section of women among them, only one or two were his direct blood relations.

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Move comes after nearly 30 people including at least three Imams with alleged links to terror groups were nabbed from madrasas during operations conducted since March Sabrangindia 30 Aug 2022 Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has announced that the state government is in the process of putting together a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to monitor the entry of Imams from outside Assam into the state. Sarma was quoted by the Times of India as saying, 'We have made an SOP that if any imam comes to a village in the state and the villagers do not know him, they should immediately inform the police.

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Singh's family has alleged that he was deported because of the documentaries on the Shaheen Bagh protest and videos on the Delta wave he produced for VICE News. Newsclick 27 Aug 2022 Journalist Angad Singh.Image Courtesy: Twitter/@Angadgsingh New Delhi: The Indian Journalists Union (IJU) has strongly condemned the deportation of Emmy-nominated India-origin American journalist Angad Singh back to New York within three hours of his flight landing at Delhi's IGI Airport on Wednesday night as government 'vendetta and harassment'.

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The report finds that the local media's reportage was riddled with stereotypes Sabrangindia 12 Sep 2022 The People's Union of Civil Liberties, Karnataka published an interim report on the impact of hijab ban in Karnataka's educational institutions. Through this report, the PUCL has attempted to provide a multi-faceted effect of the Karnataka High Court's interim order had on the lives of Muslim students, especially Muslim women, living in the Hassan town, a village in rural Hassan district, Mangalore city, Ullal, Hoode, Udupi town, and Raichur town.

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The Nafrat Chhodo Samvidhan Bachao Abhiyaan, draws thousands in Mumbai on October 2 Sabrangindia 03 Oct 2022 Thousands of Mumbaikars marched on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti on  October 2. History of sorts was made as people marched on the streets to commemorate the 153rd Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, as well as the Jayanti of former PM Lal Bahadur Shastri. Cries of 'Mahatma Gandhi Amar Rahen', 'Lal Bahadur Shastri Amar Rahen', 'Nafrat Chhodo Bharat Jodo', 'Samvidhan Bachao Desh Bachao', rent the air on the streets of Mumbai.

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Image Courtesy: PTI New Delhi: The September 12 Varanasi district court order in the Gyanvapi mosque case has triggered serious concerns among legal luminaries, historians, the Muslim community and its religious leadership — with all of them unanimously implying that the order has ‘potential' to push the country back to the 1990s when communal atmosphere engulfed the country. They said the entire episode seems to be following a 'copy-paste pattern' in the lines of the Babri Masjid-Ranmbhoomi case, not only legally but also in terms of real politics.

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Putting a stay on the order of deportation, Supreme Court has directed the Assam government to file a reply explaining how Bhanu could be a foreigner if her parents, husband and siblings are Indians CJP Team 26 Sep 2022 On September 23, the Supreme Court ordered that no action be taken to deport a woman whose name was excluded from the final National Register of Citizens (NRC) and who was designated a foreigner. The Supreme Court has sought comments from the Centre and the Assam government in response to the woman's petition.

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Conflicting opinions in constitutional courts have unfortunately introduced the red flag Of ‘national security' to what should be a humanitarian right Indian, being the epicentre of the dynamic and diverse South Asia region, has been, in early decades after independence, a land for welcoming refugees from the region. India's more recent responses to the refugee problems and its policy towards dealing with refugees that come into its territory from neighbouring Myanmar and Bangladesh has seen a significant shift and change.

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CJP team found that in some villages in Dhubri, notices had also been served to people from indigenous communities CJP Team 25 Aug 2022 Residents of Assam's Dhubri district are suddenly inundated with notices telling them that as they are suspected foreigners, and that they must appear before the local foreigners' tribunal (FT) and defend their Indian citizenship. In some villages recipients also include people from indigenous communities. 'We have observed an increase in the number of notices served in four districts over the last two weeks.

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Court held that mere transportation of a cow and its progeny within states is not a violation of the UP Prevention of Cow Slaughter Act Sabrangindia 26 Aug 2022   The Allahabad High Court bench of Justice Mohd. Aslam observed that mere transportation of a cow and its progeny within the state of Uttar Pradesh is not a violation of any of the provisions of the UP Prevention of Cow Slaughter Act. The court further held that no permit is required to transport the cow and its progeny within the state of Uttar Pradesh, reported LiveLaw.

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UP Energy Minister Arvind Kumar Sharma made it clear in the state Assembly that the government will not provide free electricity to the farmers, going against BJP's poll promises during the Assembly elections this year. Lucknow: In a bid to woo farmers, who held a year-long protest against the three farm laws, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had promised to give free electricity to farmers for irrigation and grants to set up borewells, tube-wells, ponds and tanks if it returns to power in Uttar Pradesh.

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Around 30% of the registered unemployed persons belong to scheduled caste and scheduled tribe categories, and this does not even take into account a lot of people who are not registered. Kashif Kakvi 26 Sep 2022 Image for representational purpose. Bhopal: In one of the most iconic scenes from Satyajit Ray's 1972 film Pratidwandi, the lead character was questioned about his "purpose in life" during a job interview. He said, "To get a job." Yet, he was turned down. Five decades later, the actual and the fictional worlds seem to have merged as the nation finds itself in a similar situation where an excessively high number of people are looking for work but cannot find any.

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Navlakha pleas says he has been in jail since April 14, 2020, and there was no need to keep him in custody as the probe into the case has been completed. PTI 06 Sep 2022 Image Courtesy: Wikimedia Commons Mumbai: A special NIA court here on Monday rejected the bail plea of human rights activist Gautam Navlakha, an accused in the Elghar Parishad-Maoist links case. Navlakha, arrested on August 28, 2018, moved the court for bail more than six months ago and in his plea has also cited health issues while seeking relief.

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Extensive joint campaigns led by CITU, AIKS & AIAWU to be conducted from October 2022 to February 2023 at state and district levels across the country. A panoramic view of the national convention that was held on Monday at Talkatora Stadium. Image clicked by Ronak Chhabra. New Delhi: Amidst the country's economy and its manufacturing capacities, along with its democratic and federal political system, under 'serious attack', the fight to 'Save India' will be jointly waged by workers, peasants and agricultural workers – the three 'wealth-producing' classes.

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Two hundred seventy-five delegates from 8 divisions attended the state conference of Life Insurance Corporation Agents Organisation of India. The thirteenth state conference of Life Insurance Corporation Agents Organisation of India (LICAOI), West Bengal, was held on September 21-22 at Taki in North 24 Parganas district with a resolve to transform the united movement of all agents, employees, and policyholders into a mass movement to 'save LIC'. All India president of the organisation, Basudeb Acharya was present at the conference.

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