By Ram Chandra Guha, The Telegraph 20 June 2020 Politics and Play: The perilous state of press freedom in India today 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 the […]
The Hindu27 April 2020 ‘Their ration cards were seized in 1991’ A Delhi-based rights body has sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s intervention in ensuring food for the Chakma and Hajong communities in Arunachal Pradesh who have allegedly not been included in the government’s economic package. The Chakmas and Hajongs, displaced in the 1960s by violence […]
The HinduGUWAHATI, September 02, 2019 According to the Rights and Risks Analysis Group, the exclusion is connected to the rejection of land ownership under the Forest Rights Act. A New Delhi-based rights group on Monday claimed that more than 1,00,000 Scheduled Tribes who are original inhabitants of Assam have been excluded from the State’s controversial National Register […]
