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WEBLanguage as Unifying Force: Sitaram Yechury. Culture September 27, 2024. “Here I am, born in Tamilnadu, mother tongue Telugu, settled in Hindi-speaking Delhi, representing the people of West Bengal in Parliament and addressing the august gathering here of Tamil speaking people from all over the world.
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WEBWHO WE ARE. Through the mid 1980s until the early 1990s virulent rightwing majoritarian organisations built up the volatile communal climate which culminated in the demolition of the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992. This movement was spear-headed by an aggressive politics that targeted India’s minorities, both physically and ...
Mahad Satyagraha: After 94 years, do we have Equality, Dignity
WEBMar 20, 2021 — In 1927, in rural Maharashtra, the denial of access continued despite the Bombay legislative council passing a resolution in August 1923, years before, making resources, especially water to be freely available to all. The Chavdar Tale Satyagraha, 94 years ago today has entered protest folklore in Maharashtra and is also known as Mahadcha Mukti ...
Unravelling India's Legal Evolution: LGBTQIA+ Rights and the …
WEBAug 30, 2023 — This judgment reverberates as a milestone in the legal journey towards equality and inclusion for the LGBTQIA+ community, paving the way for future cases and affirming the importance of nuanced consideration in shaping policy and rights frameworks. II. Allahabad High Court Judgment: Pioneering Transgender Rights.
Jharkhand’s Saranda forest opened up for mining, authorities …
WEBMar 28, 2019 — These regions fall within the largest sal (Shorea robusta) forest of Asia — Saranda. The MPSM was finalised by the MoEF in June last year. The plan, among other things, created “no-mining” or “conservation” zones within the Saranda forest and capped the annual mining in the Saranda-Chaibasa region at 64 million tonnes.
15 years on, memories of the Kalinganagar massacre still haunt
WEBJan 8, 2021 — The unwarranted attack on Adivasis in Kalinganagar area of Odisha is one of the prime examples of how minority suffering gets sidelined when corporate interests are allegedly involved. Adivasis (indigenous communities of India) assembled in large numbers at Jajpur in Odisha on January 2, 2021 to commemorate the 15-year anniversary of the ...
Delhi construction workers insist: life has continuously …
WEBJan 2, 2023 — Delhi construction workers insist: life has continuously deteriorated for last 6 yrs. Bharat Dogra. January 2, 2023. Keshav and Somvati are residents of a hut in Shahbad dairy colony of Delhi. When lockdown was announced in 2020, they were in Gujarat to work in a construction project. The closure was so sudden and placed them in such a ...
What does the Law say about Lathi Charge? | SabrangIndia
WEBAug 31, 2021 — According to section 144 of the CrPC, the police can resort to the use of force only when an unlawful assembly refuses to disperse. Under this provision, the police have the ability to disperse a crowd or a group of 5 or more people when there is a threat of public disorder. But the term ‘lathi or baton charge’ finds no mention in these ...
The environmental impact of the Sardar Sarovar Dam
WEBJul 6, 2020 — A 2005 study by Talib N Ellison titled, “The Sardar Sarovar Dam and Ethnic Conflict in India” which stated the environmental impacts of the dam project in detail. It states that apart from the salinization and destruction of plants and fish, waterlogging renders land useless thus bringing about starvation as crops cannot be grown there.
Parliamentary inquiry unveils 165 data breaches from 2018-23 as ...
WEBDec 12, 2023 — Even though the government alleges no breach of Aadhaar card information has occurred, the article published by Livemint states an Aadhar data breach that took place in October 2023.. The article talks about a report by Resecurity, a US-based cybersecurity firm that claims that personal identifiable information of about 815 million which is 81.5 crore Indians has been leaked on the dark web.