Tag: justice

Law Ministry Denied Giving Papers on Special Intensive Revision

Imagine, the same government that repeatedly demands citizens present papers and preserve records to prove their citizenship and right to vote claims to have no papers when citizens ask for them. http://www.reporters-collective.in Here is another instalment on the Election Commission of India’s special intensive revision scandal. Last week, we received a reply from the Ministry… Read More Law Ministry Denied Giving Papers on Special Intensive Revision

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In Gurugram’s ‘Holding Centres’, Men Say They Are Detained Just for Speaking Bengali

Amidst the ongoing crackdown on suspected foreign nationals from Bangladesh, hundreds of Bengali and Assamese migrants have been detained and kept in what the Gurugram police call “holding centres”.  Alishan Jafri and Shruti Sharma Gurugram: On July 19, Hafizur Sheikh (41) had finished his shift as a cleaner outside a liquor store in Gurugram when he was stopped… Read More In Gurugram’s ‘Holding Centres’, Men Say They Are Detained Just for Speaking Bengali

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Dhankhar’s resignation and BJP’s outsider syndrome

After Jagdeep Dhankhar’s high-profile exit, outsiders are likely to be kept away from sensitive assignments. Internal gate-keeping and stricter vetting of new entrants could be enforced. Bharat Bhushan The sudden resignation of Jagdeep Dhankhar as Vice President of India, on July 21, will trigger ripples across the political system. It will impact the fate of other… Read More Dhankhar’s resignation and BJP’s outsider syndrome

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: If Gaza’s corpses can vanish from our conscience, what else are we becoming blind to?

NB: This is what needs to be said repeatedly, because so many people have shut their eyes to the most brutal campaign of mass extermination since the American punishment of Vietnam, which left some 4 million dead over a decade. The rate of murder in Gaza would please the operators of the death camps run… Read More Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: If Gaza’s corpses can vanish from our conscience, what else are we becoming blind to?

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Over 2,100 environmental activists killed worldwide between 2012 & 2023 / The violent erasure of land and environmental defenders 

Global Witness More than 2,100 environmental activists were killed worldwide between 2012 and 2023, with Latin America holding the highest percentage globally, an international non-governmental organization (NGO) said Tuesday. The new report by Global Witness said an estimated 196 land and environmental defenders were killed around the world in 2023 alone. The report found that… Read More Over 2,100 environmental activists killed worldwide between 2012 & 2023 / The violent erasure of land and environmental defenders 

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GSI’s Handbook on Northeast India Masks Extraction Behind Technicalities

NB: Congratulations to Bonojit, a former Ramjas College student; for his groundbreaking research and activism. DS The handbook casts the Northeast as a mineral-rich periphery, that is “underexplored” and ideal for private investment. Since March this year, around 55,000 bighas of land across Assam have either been cleared or marked for eviction. Of this, only… Read More GSI’s Handbook on Northeast India Masks Extraction Behind Technicalities

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Seeking Justice for Lynching, Demolitions Not a Crime: Former Civil Servants Group on Mahmudabad / ‘You don’t need him, you need a dictionary,’ SC tells SIT probing professor

The Constitutional Conduct Group, a group of former civil servants, on Wednesday (May 28) released a statement of solidarity with Ashoka University professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad who was arrested over his posts on Operation Sindoor. “We are greatly distressed by the grave criminal charges levelled against Mahmudabad and his subsequent arrest,” the statement said, calling… Read More Seeking Justice for Lynching, Demolitions Not a Crime: Former Civil Servants Group on Mahmudabad / ‘You don’t need him, you need a dictionary,’ SC tells SIT probing professor

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चुनाव आयोग को मेरी चुनौती, मेरी रिपोर्ट को गलत साबित करके दिखाए ? Ajit Anjum / The Dangerous Farce of the ongoing SIR in Bihar and the Price of Exposing it

बिहार में मेरे खिलाफ FIR ? ‘SIR’ की रिपोर्टिंग का नतीजा ? || Ajit Anjum – बिहार में चुनाव आयोग के दावों का फैक्ट चेक करने की वजह से मेरे ख़िलाफ़ बेगूसराय में हुई FIR ? क्या ‘SIR’ के दौरान मिली कमियों को उजागर करना गुनाह है ? ‘SIR’ की रिपोर्टिंग से बौखलाए प्रशासन की… Read More चुनाव आयोग को मेरी चुनौती, मेरी रिपोर्ट को गलत साबित करके दिखाए ? Ajit Anjum / The Dangerous Farce of the ongoing SIR in Bihar and the Price of Exposing it

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Narendra Modi’s Step by Step Journey Towards Creating Fascism in India

Prem Shankar Jha The following are excerpts from The Dismantling of India’s Democracy: 1947 to 2025 by Prem Shankar Jha; reproduced with permission from the publisher, Speaking Tiger. Over the decade since Narendra Modi has been the prime minister of India, at the head of a BJP government supported by a few local allies in the states… Read More Narendra Modi’s Step by Step Journey Towards Creating Fascism in India

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