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Feature: Manipur has jailed an activist, a journalist for 2 months for saying cow dung can’t cure COVID

(The Wire) Erendro Leichombam and Kishorechandra Wangkhem were arrested by Manipur authorities for saying BJP members are advocating cow urine and cow dung as cures for the virus, it is science and common sense that could save people from the pandemic.

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Feature: India’s poor can’t afford to beat the heat

AFP Beating the merciless heat is hard in the Indian desert city of Sri Ganganagar, a reality facing millions across the vast country as the climate changes in the coming decades. While people in richer nations can find some respite from a warming planet with air conditioners and other modern …

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Feature: Govt job aspirants in limbo in Kashmir after new guidelines

(South Asian Wire) Six years ago, Altaf was happy with a job in a private company in Bangalore until his father compelled him to prepare for a government job. He quit the job and started preparing for government exams. The 27-year-old had spent years preparing. But new guidelines from the …

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‘We are ruled by fiends. They have put a curse upon this land’: Arundhati Roy on Stan Swamy’s death

The excruciating, slow-motion, custodial murder of 84-year-old Father Stan Swamy, a Jesuit priest who spent decades of his life in the service of India’s dispossessed, took place in the show window of our democracy. Our judiciary, police, intelligence services, and prison system are responsible. Our mainstream media too. All of …

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