-The Telegraph Several organisations demand special session after the counter-insurgency operation led to the security forces killing 14 civilians at Oting in Mon district last week Guwahati: The Nagaland government has decided to hold a daylong special session of the Assembly to discuss the Armed Forces Special Powers Act and the ongoing Naga political talks, stepping up pressure on the Centre to have the “abusive Law” repealed. Several organisations, including the Naga Students’...
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Two years of CAA: For many protestors, the fight has shifted from the streets to the courts -Aishwarya Iyer
-Scroll.in Most of the prominent faces of the December 2019 protests battle police cases. These days, 24-year-old Sharjeel Usmani spends most of his time travelling from one Aligarh court to another for hazri, attendance. There are four cases against the Aligarh Muslim University student, all of them connected to protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act passed by Parliament on December 11, 2019. As the Law was passed, protests erupted across the country and...
More »Ken-Betwa Interlink Means 'Bundelkhand Will Suffer for Decades to Come' -Aathira Perinchery
-TheWire.in Experts also said the approval is premature for coming before environmental clearances required by Law, and could really be motivated by electoral gains. Kochi: On December 8, the Union cabinet approved the Ken-Betwa river interlinking project, apparently intended to address water scarcity of the Bundelkhand region across Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. In its current form, it entails the construction of a dam and a channel between the Ken and Betwa...
More »You cannot stop people from eating non-vegetarian food, Gujarat HC tells Ahmedabad civic body
-Scroll.in The court was hearing a petition against the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, which had seized several vendors’ carts selling meat and egg dishes last month. The Gujarat High Court on Thursday told the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation that it could not stop the residents of the state from eating non-vegetarian food, Bar and Bench reported. Justice Biren Vaishnav made the statement while hearing a plea by vendors whose carts were seized from the main...
More »'No Farmer Died in Police Action During Protests': Union Govt on Compensation Question
-TheWire.in The family of Navreet Singh had claimed that he had died in police firing and rejected the claim that his tractor had overturned on January 26. New Delhi: The Union government on Friday, December 10, said “no farmer died due to police action” during the year-long protests against the farm Laws. The movement at Delhi borders was suspended by the umbrella body of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) on Thursday, after the...
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