-The Telegraph They also torched the office of a weigh bridge and damaged it, pelted stones and blocked roads, demanding that all should get adequate bonds to store their produce Jalpaiguri: Violence sparked in three locations on the outskirts of Jalpaiguri town, on Thursday as hundreds of potato farmers, who crowded in front of cold storages to collect bonds to store their produce, resorted to protests after alleging anomalies in the distribution...
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Want mother’s name on documents? Get ready for the runaround -Soma Basu and Jagriti Chandra
-The Hindu It was a long struggle for Suvam to get his ID cards printed with only his mother’s name The PAN allotment process is perhaps not as cumbersome as it used to be. But for Suvam Sinha, it took seven years to get his PAN card and other documents — the way he wished them. That is, without his father’s name on them. On February 11, the 23-year-old celebrated his victory with...
More »Ready to give Aadhaar card to sex workers, UIDAI tells SC -Krishnadas Rajagopal
-The Hindu But they have to get certificate from a gazetted officer of health departments of States or from official with NACO, it says The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) on Monday informed the Supreme Court that it was willing to issue Aadhaar card to sex workers without insisting on proof of residence/identity, provided they got a certificate from a gazetted officer of the health departments of the States or from...
More »Assam man fighting citizenship battle dies by suicide
-MaktoobMedia.com The 60-year-old dry fish seller Manik Das was fighting a legal battle to prove his citizenship before a Foreigner’s Tribunal (FT) in Assam since December 2019, despite his name appearing in the National Register for Citizens (NRC) that was published a few months before that. On Tuesday, Manik who is a resident of Borkhal village and was going through mental trauma because of the ongoing case, breathed his last. He died...
More »10 Things To Know About The Electoral Reforms Controversy -Sunil Prabhu
-NDTV.com The opposition has argued that allowing the Aadhaar card-voter ID link could lead to more non-citizens voting in the country. New Delhi: Four changes in the electoral law, the key one allowing linking of Aadhaar to the voter Identity Card, was passed in the Lok Sabha amid uproar today. The opposition demanded a review of the bill, arguing against the Aadhaar-voter I-card link. Here are the Top 10 points in this story: 1....
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