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Three UN Special Rapporteurs have noted that the broad phrasing of the IT Rules stand to seriously harm privacy and freedom of expression. The government has replied that it doesn’t think so.
Since the beginning of the corona pandemic in early 2020, the number of COVID-19 deaths has been approximately 330 per day in India, while during the same period the number of tuberculosis deaths has been around 1,230 per day. Yet TB deaths never make the newspaper headlines.
The city where thousands come seeking moksha (salvation) has been swamped by deaths in the second surge of COVID-19. From end March to early May, Varanasi has had to accommodate more dead than the powers that be are ready to admit.
The noted lawyer analyses recent case law on the rampant misuse of Section 124A of the IPC, which provides for the offence of sedition, as well as questions the reasoning of the Supreme Court in its landmark Kedar Nath Singh judgment, to argue for the repeal of the sedition law.
The vocal, sustained and fiercely vehement opposition of the DMK to the New Education Policy ever since its draft released in 2019, has been barely a matter of surprise to close watchers and chroniclers of the Dravidian movement.
The difference between the MSP declared for ten kharif crops and that calculated according to the Swaminathan Commission formula ranges between Rs 611 per quintal to Rs 2,027.5 per quintal, depending upon which one of the ten crops is chosen.
The CPI(M) does not regard the BJP’s repeated attempts to destabilise the West Bengal government as a threat to federalism but as a political tussle between TMC and BJP, forgetting that this struggle is very similar to the struggles of the Jyoti Basu government against the Centre in the 1980s.
Judge Anand Venkatesh described his quest to tackle his ‘ignorance and prejudice’ about same-sex relationships. Ajay Kumar thanks the judge for making him and millions of people like him feel like they belong to this society and that this society acknowledges their existence.
In several states, prison manuals still dictate that labour within the prison should be assigned on the basis of caste.
For the Hindutva movement, Birsa Munda is an icon only because he and his followers attacked missionaries and the church. But this is a deliberate misreading of history and a willful deception.
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