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These provisions, if enacted, allow for a situation were the Officer in Charge of a Police Station can deny lawyers from accessing detainees and even police stations if such access would “impede ongoing investigations”. . . . As such the Bill would curtail existing constitutional and administrative protections for detainees

Perween Rahman, Director of the Orangi Pilot Project [in Karachi], was killed on this day in 2013. Aquila Ismail is Perween Rahman’s older sister. At present she is pursuing justice for her sister’s murder in the Supreme Court of Pakistan.

. . . the BJP has established it pan Indian hegemony in a decisive manner. Its determination to capture India is seen by many with admiration and some with fear.

the recent order by the [Rajasthan] state education ministry asking every secondary and senior secondary school to purchase collected works of Deendayal Upadhyaya.

Since December of the past year, Ashulia and Savar have been in an uproar. What started off with workers’ demands regarding how the factories are run evolved into demands for better pay, a more democratic workplace, labour law reform, an end to illegal sackings and random factory closings, and more. The response from the government and the BGMEA would undoubtedly have made Pinochet proud.