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Who detained Kashmiri politician Shah Faesal and under what law?0
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- August 18, 2019
Home ministry officials did not respond to Scroll.in’s questions. Ipsita Chakravarty 16 August 2019 On August 15, it was reported that Shah Faesal, the Kashmiri bureaucrat who left the Indian Administrative Service to join politics, was being held at the Centaur Hotel in Srinagar, which has been turned into a makeshift detention centre. Early on
READ MOREHumans of Assam: The nephew of India’s fifth president is struggling to prove his Indian citizenship0
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- August 16, 2019
Ziauddin Ali Ahmed and his family won’t make it to the final NRC – here’s why. Arunabh Saikia Jul 28, 2019 Humans of Assam is a collection of stories of people living in the state who fear losing their Indian citizenship. It is part of the month-long reporting project called The Final Count. When the
READ MOREDeath by Citizenship: This man killed himself, anxious over wife’s fate – and he is not the only one. Part 3 Final0
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- July 28, 2019
The final in a three-part series on people who ended their lives consumed by anxiety over proving they and their families were Indian citizens. Jul 18, 2019 Arunabh Saikia Kadbhanu is a difficult woman to get hold of. You have to phone a specific relative – who accepts calls only from certain numbers – who
READ MOREDeath by Citizenship: They made it to NRC, but were dropped later – tagged as suspected foreigners Part 20
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- July 28, 2019
The second in a three-part series on people who ended their lives consumed by anxiety over proving they and their families were Indian citizens. Jul 17, 2019 Arunabh Saikia There is no ceiling fan in the Das’ living room anymore. Nirod Baran Das had hanged himself from it last October, damaging it beyond repair in
READ MOREIndia: Death by Citizenship: A loving son, a brave mother, a distraught father – faces of Assam’s tragedy. Part 10
The first in a three-part series on people who ended their lives consumed by anxiety over proving they and their families were Indian citizens. Arunabh Saikia Jul 16, 2019 Jul 16, 2019 · 09:00 am Arunabh Saikia Birosmoni Das struggles to complete a sentence without breaking down. But this much she remembers clearly: her son,
READ MOREExplained: What exactly is the National Register of Citizens (NRC)?0
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- July 15, 2019
And why it is contentious. Ipsita Chakravarty 15 July 2019 On July 31, Assam will release the final National Register of Citizens, a list of Indian citizens living in the state. Possibly the largest citizenship screening drive in the world, it has put millions of people on edge. In a month-long reporting project called The
READ MOREIndian MP Mahua Moitra’s ‘fascism’ speech wins praise0
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- June 27, 2019
Scroll.in June 27th, 2019 Indian MP Mahua Moitra Collected In her maiden speech in the Lok Sabha, lower house of India’s parliament, she pointed out seven signs of early fascism The Constitution is under threat and India is “being torn apart”, declared Mahua Moitra, the first-time parliamentarian from Trinamool Congress as she lashed out at the
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India: Uttarakhand: Dalit man dies after upper-caste men beat him for sitting and eating in front of them0
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- May 6, 2019
He died, while undergoing treatment at a Dehradun hospital, nine days after the incident. A Dalit youth died on Sunday, days after he was allegedly beaten up by a group of men from an upper-caste community in Tehri district of Uttarakhand, PTI reported. The 23-year-old was assaulted on April 26, purportedly for sitting on a
READ MOREKashmir: Death of school principal in police custody sparks protests in Awantipora0
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- March 20, 2019
The family of Rizwan Pandit, who was picked up from his home by the police on Sunday, say they heard of his death via social media. by Safwat Zargar 19 March 2019 Asadullah Pandit’s family was spending just another Sunday evening at their home in Awantipora in South Kashmir on March 17, when they heard a
READ MOREWriter Gita Mehta declines Padma Shri, says ‘timing may be misconstrued’ due to upcoming elections0
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- January 26, 2019
She is the sister of Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik and wrote ‘The Karma Cola’. Author Gita Mehta, who is the sister of Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, declined the Centre’s decision to honour her with a Padma Shri award, ANI reported on Saturday. The author of Karma Cola cited the impending General Elections and said the timing of her
READ MOREIn Kashmir, a photo of a militant’s body being dragged by security forces sparks outrage0
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- September 20, 2018
Retired generals insist that this is standard procedure since militant bodies are often booby trapped. via Twitter Sep 14, 2018 Rayan Naqash On the evening of September 13, a photograph of security personnel dragging a body with rope tied to its feet went viral in the Kashmir Valley. Earlier that day, two gunfights had broken
READ MORE‘Breaking people’s will’: In Kashmir, gunfights leave a trail of destroyed homes and rising anger0
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- September 20, 2018
20 September, 2018 Kashmiris see the destruction of their property by government forces as a ‘form of punishment’. Rayan Naqash The 70-year-old shopkeeper from Khudwani in South Kashmir’s Kulgam district does not remember the exact date his house was reduced to rubble. He only remembers furious knocking in the dead of the night, sometime this
READ MOREOpinion: Bangladesh has damaged its democratic credentials with the latest crackdown0
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- August 12, 2018
The actions of the ruling Awami League, not its words, speak of state that is autocratic and repressive. Police fire tear gas shells during the students’ protest in Dhaka on August 5, 2018. | Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters Aug 11, 2018 Ikhtisad Ahmed In the following days, these organic demonstrations grew into a peaceful civil disobedience
READ MORENot just Trump: India has separated Bangladeshi children from their parents for years0
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- July 4, 2018
In West Bengal, the detained Bangladesh immigrants are sent to prisons while their children are kept in shelter homes. A Bangladeshi woman weeps while holding children in the no-man’s-land between India and Bangladesh at the Satcachi border crossing, near Coochbehar, some 650 kms north of Kolkata. | Biswarup Basak/AFP This is Sneha, a shelter home
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