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The Real 'State' in India Is Its Criminal Justice System -NC Asthana

-TheWire.in The biggest tormentor of the people in India is paradoxically the Indian state itself. We are living in times that are both frightening and strange. They are frightening because the Indian society is being driven by a binary system. Either you conform to the majoritarian or official narrative, or you are branded a traitor of some sort – jihadi, urban Naxal, or ISI agent who must be jailed or tormented by...

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Controversial order to split MNREGA payments on caste lines withdrawn after states object -Neelam Pandey

-ThePrint.in Social Justice ministry noted that its field report indicated a deepening of caste division within village communities over segregation of workers into SCs, STs and others. New Delhi: The Modi government’s controversial decision to split wage payments along caste lines under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) has been withdrawn and the earlier system of payment from a single account has been restored, ThePrint has learnt. The move made...

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Social media gets a Gandhian platform: Pixstory -Kallol Bhattacherjee

-The Hindu Senior journalist and writer Appu Esthose Suresh starts a Gandhi-inspired platform to filter fake news and hate speeches From communal riots to transistor blasts and crimes of passion, Delhi is no stranger to felonies but the greatest criminal offence in the national capital was committed on January 30, 1948, when Mahatma Gandhi was shot dead at a prayer meeting by Nathuram Godse. In a newly published book — The Murderer, The...

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Caste census of Backward Classes difficult: Centre -Krishnadas Rajagopal

-The Hindu “It has suffered, and will suffer, both on account of completeness and accuracy of the data,” an affidavit filed by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment in the Supreme Court said. The government has made it clear in the Supreme Court that a caste census of the Backward Classes is “administratively difficult and cumbersome”. The Centre reasoned that even when the census of castes were taken in the pre-Independence period,...

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Two of 12 top caste-based sexual violence cases from 'model' Gujarat: NGO report -Rajiv Shah

-Counterview.net The National Council of Women Leaders (NCWL), a civil rights group, has compiled what it has called “landmark cases of caste-based sexual violence” between 1985 and 2020 to mark the first anniversary of the notorious Hathras gangrape case, which led to the death of a young Dalit woman in September 2020. Compiling 12 cases from 10 States, the 15-page report, released by NCWL says, the effort is to highlight how...

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