Month: September 2026
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Farmers protesting Bidadi township project detained after road blockade
‘Over 50 people, including several women farmers, were detained, while the police have yet to decide on filing a case’
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18th IDSFFK begins under a cloud of censorship
Uncertainty remains over the 31 films for which the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B) has denied censor exemption even as Minister for Cultural Affairs said the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy is making all possible efforts, including legal measures, to secure permission for screening
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RGI Mritunjay Kumar Narayan reviews Census work in Ladakh
Mritunjay Kumar Narayan reviews operations with focus on Census coverage in remote and snow-bound areas, the functioning of the Census app, and preparedness of field-level staff
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Lawyers’ group seek fresh hearing in CEC law challenge, Noida DM case
The Lawyers Association for Constitution urged that a top court bench – excluding Justice Satish Chandra Sharma – hear both matters, citing public reports that his son is empanelled as standing counsel for the ECI before the MP High Court
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Election Commission must respond to SIR irregularity allegations, says Ram Madhav
BJP leader says Opposition should not contest elections if it believes the electoral system is rigged
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Congress leads protests demanding CEC’s resignation, arrest
Modi, Shah using Kumar to overcome public opposition through “artificial manipulation”, says Venugopal; civil society groups hold agitations in Delhi and other States; police use water cannons to stop protesters
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Vikassheel Insaan Party chief Mukesh Sahani lashes out at Gyanesh Kumar
He says Election Commission has turned into an arm of the BJP
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Government yet to decide how open-column caste data will be sorted, tabulated
Opposition parties and OBC groups are against the open-column option in the 2027 Census; they say the 2011 Socio-Economic Caste Census also had an open field to record caste, yielding over 46 lakh caste names; successive governments did not act on that report, says experts