Is the protest against citizenship bill justified? | The Newshour Debate

A case for truth, The Telegraph India

Media oppression is a shifting landscape By Sevanti Ninan, The Telegraph India 29 June 2020 For some years now, the growing challenge to journalism has come from the increasing use of predictable laws. These are the Sections relating to sedition and criminal defamation in the Indian Penal Code and, until it was struck down in […]

Arunachal told to involve Chakmas, Hajongs in COVID-19 relief plan, The Hindu

The Hindu1 May 2020 Rights and Risks Analysis Group says a majority of them were facing massive food shortage due to their exclusion from the programme. The Ministry of Development of the North Eastern Region (DoNER) has directed the Arunachal Pradesh government to include the Chakma and Hajong communities in the COVID-19 relief programme. In […]

Protests, outrage over Assam’s bid to convert land for industries, The Hindu

The Hindu 02 July 2020 All Assam Students’ Union symbolically burn copies of ordinance, apex tribal body demands scrapping of ‘anti-indigenous’ move. The Assam government’s approval of an ordinance to allow conversion of land without clearances for setting up micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) triggered protests across the State on July 2. The State […]