(The Wire) Under the pretext of COVID-19 safety, employers have tightened restrictions on live-in domestic workers in India.
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Feature: Hasty deportation of Rohingya refugee from Jammu triggers panic
Zenaira Bakhsh On May 5, the news about the deportation of Jafar Alam, one of the refugees living in Jammu, spread across the community living in Jammu. Earlier, on April 17, Alam had been detained in Hiranagar sub-jail of Jammu. “His family was told that there was some technical issue …
Read More »Article: US concern on human right abuses in India
Saima Afzal Almost every constitution of the world protect and provide the basic human rights to its individuals. Indian constitution came into force on 26 January 1950 with the most elaborate fundamental laws that were adopted and the preamble to the constitution declares India to be a sovereign, socialist, secular …
Read More »Article: Modi will be the only loser in the game of communal polarisation from Jahangirpuri to Jodhpur
(The Wire) Those who believe their rajdharma lies not in the prevention but the calibration of violence and instability have always ended up paying the price.
Read More »Article: The last barrier against communalism in India
(The Wire) The diversity of local negotiations creates several barriers to a nationwide communal narrative, but the efforts to burn these barriers will destroy a large number of lives and livelihoods
Read More »Article: Delimitation An Attempt to Bring Jammu on Par with Kashmir Valley at Assembly
(Clarion India) The delimitation of the electoral constituencies in J&K clearly shows that the exercise is a deliberate attempt to increase the assembly seats in the Jammu region to seek parity with the assembly seats in the Kashmir Valley.
Read More »Article: WHO report shows no other country has undercounted COVID deaths as much as India
Banjot Kaur India’s COVID-19 death toll is almost 10 times its official tally, and the country is estimated to have had the highest number of COVID-19 deaths until December 2021 – 4.7 million. This is one of the conclusions of the much-anticipated WHO report on the world’s COVID-19 excess death …
Read More »Article: Two lies the Indian Govt told the Supreme Court on COVID-19 Vaccines
(The Wire) Some of the Union government’s responses to the petition that prompted a new Supreme Court order include lies that undermine confidence in its vaccination drive.
Read More »Article: With Delimitation Now Complete, J&K Politicians Allege Further Disempowerment of Kashmir
(The Wire) In the revised electoral map drawn by the delimitation panel, the average population of an assembly constituency in the Muslim-majority Kashmir will be 1.4 lakh, while it will be only 1.2 lakh in Jammu, which is the bastion of the saffron party.
Read More »Feature: “Why so barbarous?” asks Muslim man assaulted in viral video from Khargone
Saher Hiba Khan A recent video from Madhya Pradesh’s Khargone, following anti-Muslim violence on Ram Navami, had gone viral where five police personnel can be seen brutally assaulting two Muslim men. Maktoob contacted one of the survivors, Hafeez Mohammad Sayeed, a scrap businessman and the sole bread earner of his …
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