In an environment where dissent is seen as an act of rebellion, even sedition, where people are imprisoned for defending their rights, and where even a cartoon or a joke can irritate politicians, some indigenous people have made it known that they will not flinch. Especially when it comes to …
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Written by Ravish Tiwari | New Delhi | Updated: December 17, 2020 7:43:24 am A boy with a tricolor during the Farmar protest on the border of Tikari on Wednesday. (Express photo by Prem Nath Pandey) Comparatively less spontaneous than the nationwide anti-CAA protests a year ago, the standoff between …
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Written by Tora Agarwala | Guwahati | Updated: December 15, 2020 7:32:12 am Das and his wife last week. Biswa Kalyan Purkayastha About six months ago, Nyuti Das remembers his father Chandrahar Das bent over his brother’s phone, his one good eye, and the rest of him completely engrossed in …
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By: Express News Service | Kolkata | Updated: October 20, 2020 11:47:54 am BJP President JP Nadda while addressing a meeting in Bengal. (Twitter / @ JPNadda) BJP President JP Nadda said Monday that the implementation of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) was delayed due to the pandemic and that …
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Hathras: The SIT visited the woman’s village, the site of the attack and cremation on Tuesday. Hathras / Lucknow: A special investigation team or SIT investigating the alleged gang rape and torture of a young Dalit in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh, has been given an additional ten days to deliver its …
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Written by Liz Mathew, Maulshree Seth | Lucknow, New Delhi | Updated: October 7, 2020 7:04:12 am Flowers scattered on the funeral pyre of the 19-year-old. (Express Photo by Gajendra Yadav) Versus questions about managing your government On the Hathras case and with some critical voices within it, Uttar Pradesh …
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On Monday, Delhi police summoned documentary makers Rahul Roy and Saba Dewan for questioning in connection with the northeast Delhi riots in February, a day after former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student Umar was arrested. Khalid on conspiracy charges in the case. A police officer, who did not want to …
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[ad_1] New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Saturday arrested two founding members of Pinjra Tod, a women-led rights movement, to take part in a sit-in protest against the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) in Jafrabad in the Capital in February of this year. Devangana Kalita and Natasha Narwal, both students …
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