India Legal 04 July 2020 In a statement, 99 former senior bureaucrats have critised the consistent attack on the freedom of expression and the right to dissent by the central government led by Narendra Modi in its second regime from 2019 onwards. Those who have signed include Ravi Vira Gupta, Former Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank […]
Northeast NowANUP SHARMAGUWAHATI , August 31, 2019 Hours after the final National Register of Citizens (NRC) excluded 19,06,657 people from the updated citizens’ registry, New Delhi based Rights and Risk Analysis Group (RRAG) termed it as largest such incident making people ‘stateless’ in recent times. Also read: Assam gets its updated NRC…finally; 19,06,657 excluded from final list RRAG […]
Scroll 21 June 2020 The Indian press is less free, more vulnerable to state intimidation than at any time since the Emergency. In 1824, the Government of Bengal (which was then in the hands of the East India Company) issued an Ordinance placing strict curbs on the freedom of the press. This gave the government […]
