-NDTV.com On Saturday, 14 villagers and a soldier died in Nagaland's Mon district after an Army op to track down insurgents went off script. A police FIR has said the Army's 21 Para Special Forces "blankly opened fire". Kohima: Amid outrage over the mistaken killings of 14 civilians in a botched army operation against insurgents, the Nagaland government will write to the Centre calling for the repeal of the Armed Forces Special...
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Army Unit Named In Nagaland Op Deaths, "Intention To Murder," Allege Cops -Ashutosh Tripathi
-NDTV.com Thirteen villagers and a soldier were killed at an Indo-Myanmar border district in Nagaland on Sunday as a counter-insurgency operation went horribly off script. One more villager died in the clashes that followed. The 21 Para Special forces of Army "blankly opened fire" resulting in the killing of many Oting villagers in Mon district of Nagaland near Assam border, the state police has alleged in its FIR against the Army unit....
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-TwoCircles.net Since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) formed the government in Assam in 2016, the state has witnessed a spree of evictions uprooting thousands of people. The forced eviction drive became rampant after Himanta Biswa Sarma took charge as chief minister in 2021. GUWAHATI: The forced eviction drive of Bengali speaking Muslims in Assam by the state government was aimed at serving “vested interest with ulterior motives” against the people who were...
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-The Hindu The addition of local agrarian demands into the call for the repeal of the farm laws may have forced the Government’s hand The repeal of the three farm laws by the Union government, on Friday, marks a historic victory for the farmer’s movement in India. For more than a year, thousands of farmers had barricaded Delhi, and their protests were gradually evolving into a pan-Indian movement of resistance. The belated,...
More »Can the police in India force someone to hand over their phone and check their messages? -Umang Poddar
-Scroll.in A viral video of the Hyderabad Police stopping people in the street and looking through their devices has sparked concern about the legality of such methods. In several cases over the last couple of years, the police have highlighted WhatsApp chats found on phones to explain why they needed to keep people in custody. This strategy has been deployed most recently in narcotics cases involving Hindi film actress Rhea Chakraborty and Aryan...
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