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Dalit not allowed cremation on Agra ground, Mayawati seeks probe

July 28, 2020 Lucknow:  A Dalit woman’s body was unceremoniously removed from the funeral pyre minutes before she was to be cremated by upper caste men in Agra a few days back. The incident has…

Justice Lokur, Justice Shah, over 100 others appeal to SC to withdraw contempt proceedings against Prashant Bhushan

July 27, 2020 New Delhi: Former Supreme Court judge Madan P Lokur, fomer Delhi High court chief Justice AP Shah, top retired bureaucrats, acdemics and activists are among 131 eminent personalities who today appealed to…

By G S Radhakrishna

After Big B, Mumbai’s Nanavati Hospital has another celebrity Covid patient in Vara Vara Rao

By G S Radhakrishna July 27, 2020 New Delhi: Next to the Big B, the Nanavati hospital, Mumbai has another celebrity Covid positive patient now. P Vara Vara Rao, the 79-year-old ‘urban naxal’, ‘Literary Naxal’…

Rights

Chhattisgarh state in India has highest incidence of violence against Christians: UCF

July 22, 2020 New Delhi: Chhattisgarh has recorded “highest number of incidents of violence against Christians” in recent past, and nationwide there has been a steady increase in the dangerous trend in the last six…

Rights

72 prominent people urge Prez to stop police from criminalising protest against CAA, demand fair probe into Delhi riots

July 20, 2020 New Delhi: As many as 72 personalities, including former senior government officials, ambassadors, senior police officers, activists and academics, while demanding a commission of inquiry inquiry into the manner of investigation into…

Rights

Concerned citizens demand bail for jailed activists in Bhima Koregaon case

July 20, 2020 New Delhi: Holding that the lives of 11 activists arrested in Bhimakoregaon/Elgar parishand case were at risk due to Corona pandemic, more than 500 intellectauls, writers, students, acdemics and rights activists have…

By Naz Asghar

Police helped rioters, or did not act during north-east Delhi riots: Minorities panel

July 18, 2020 New Delhi: In recent Delhi riots, the Police in many instances openly sided with the perpetrators of attacks on Muslims or just remained an onlooker while the mobs engaged in looting, burning…

Human rights champion late Justice Suresh gets Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer Memorial Lifetime Achievement Award

July 13, 2020 Mumbai: Late Justice (Rtd) Hosbet Suresh, who passed away on June 11 this year, will be conferred posthumously with the 2nd Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer Memorial Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution…

World

Vegan activists turn London’s Trafalgar Square fountains red

July 12, 2020 London: Vegan activists have turned fountains in London’s Trafalgar Square red, claiming that the government has “blood on their hands”, a media report said. On Saturday, the Animal Rebellion activists said that…

IJU demands restoration of 4G network in J&K, says Union Govt non-complying wih SC order

  July 11, 2020 New Delhi: The Indian Journalists Union on Saturday condemned the decision of the J&K Administration extending the restrictions on internet speed (4G) till July 29, and said the Supreme Court Union…

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