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Close to 1,000 NREGA workers and other rural labourers converged to Birsa Chowk [in Ranchi city] from 12 districts of Jharkhand today and sat on dharna to protest against repeated attacks on their right to food and right to work. The event was jointly organised by Right to Food Campaign Jharkhand and NREGA Watch.

The current turmoil in Pakistan is a rerun: The elected government has again failed to assert its authority against unconstitutional forces claiming to act in the name of Islam.

Development economist Reetika Khera and Legal scholar Usha Ramanathan speak about their criticism of the Adhaar UID project in India. PUDR organised this event in Delhi on 16 Sept 2017 to discuss the implications of the Unique Identification (UID) project for democratic rights.

All organisations of Rajasthan are shocked at the recent developments of what is happening in the State in terms of lynching of Muslims, the latest one being carried out on the 25th anniversary of Babri Masjid demolition, a murder in cold blood of Mohammed Afrazul a 48 year old migrant from West Bengal in Rajsamand, Rajasthan. There is only one demand that Vasundhara Raje, should resign now. She does not deserve to hold on to the post even for a day in the context of the absolute impunity provided to these killers and their supporters.

Twenty five years after the Babri Masjid was demolished and violence unleashed on Muslim community in various parts of the country, AIDS Bhedbhav Virodhi Andolan (ABVA) is releasing the digitized version of its 58-paged citizens’ report on the violence committed primarily against the Muslims in Seelampur, Delhi on 11 December, 1992.