Ruling by the three-judge bench of the Supreme Court on cases challenging the UID/Aadhaar project
South Asia Citizens Web
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India: Text of Supreme Court Ruling of 11 August 2015 re Aadhaar / UID
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India: Citizen’s Public Statement on Biometric Profiling through aadhaar & DNA Bill
11 August 2015Right to privacy is an inalienable birth right & fundamental right
Biometric data collection, aadhaar number & related programs is a black act
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Why I blame Sheikh Hasina for Niloy Neel’s death | Taslima Nasrin
10 August 2015The Bangladesh government has done nothing to save these important and urgent voices of reason
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’Nowhere is safe’: Behind the Bangladesh blogger murders | Mukul Devichand
9 August 2015The mood among atheist and secular bloggers, after the latest murder, is a mixture of fear and defiance.
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India: Dr N.P. Gupta - A tribute by Arun Kumar
8 August 2015I knew him in my early days as a contemporary of my father, Late Prof Asha Ram. They were together with friends like P.C. Joshi, Sulekh Chandra Gupta, and R.K. Garg (a student of my father in Allahabad University). They were all Communists to begin with but remained Marxists till the end even if disillusioned with the wider movement. They all believed in the wider unity of the Left forces in the country—so essential in today’s context.
