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Award-winning Pakistani journalist and novelist Mohammed Hanif says copies of his best-selling satirical novel A Case of Exploding Mangoes have been seized.

’This updated NPR database along with Aadhaar Number would become the mother database and can be used by various government departments...’ the home ministry declared in July 2015. ’UID/Aadhaar has been used as a fish bait to ensnare and entrap present and future generations of citizens,’ warns Gopal Krishna.

Нью-Дели, 6 января: НАНД решительно осуждает беспрецедентное насилие,
развязанное фашиствующими головорезами в кампусе университета Дж.Неру, в отношении активистов Студенческого профсоюза и других студентов, протестующих против повышения стоимости обучения.

New Delhi, January 6 : NAPM strongly condemns the unprecedented violence unleashed by the masked goons on the JNU campus specifically targeting Student Union activists, students active in anti fee hike agitation and the faculty members supporting them and some Kashmiri and Dalit students. The attack has left more than 20 students and faculty members with grievous injury, fracture and cuts including severe head injury to JNUSU President Aishe Ghosh, Prof Sucharita Sen and others. In a well guarded university, the complete breakdown of the law and order, deliberate switching off of the street lights, lockdown of the main entrance, stopping of Ambulance and any help from entering the campus, points towards the complicity of the JNU administration and the Police authorities as well, who played along with the right wing protesters at the main gate, events following the attack late in the night.

The youth-led protests by people of all faiths has been met with the use of unduly harsh measures by the State that has so far resulted in over two-dozen deaths, injuries to hundreds and destruction of public property. This is disturbing to every right thinking Indian. The hasty enactment of the patently discriminatory Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) and fears on related extension of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) to the whole country, have triggered these protests. The core message the protestors conveyed to Government is that the CAA, founded on religious basis of citizenship, is aimed against the nation’s principal minority, violates its rights and upends the fundamentals of India’s constitutional nationhood. It is unlikely that the protests would fritter away over time.