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In his message on a group, Balbir Punj had called writer Bhisham Sahni a leftist and claimed that 'Tamas' had “directly or indirectly” held the RSS responsible for communal violence during Partition.

In an interview with Karan Thapar, former Union home secretary Gopal Krishna Pillai criticised the response of the Union and state governments to the ethnic clashes in Manipur.

He said he has not seen such an incompetent and ineffective response to a crisis in his entire career.

An analysis by Girijesh Vashishth on

1. the historical context and current situation surrounding China's occupation of Aksai Chin and its implications for India's territorial integrity.
2. Concerns raised about the depiction of Arunachal Pradesh on new maps, indicating a potential infringement on India's territorial sovereignty. The lack of decisive action by the Indian government to curb such territorial incursions raises questions about the strategies being employed to protect the nation's borders.

(in Hindi).

Mohit Yadav's family said that he was depressed after he was terminated from service in June following the circulation of a video of two of his passengers offering namaz on the side of the road.

The plea requested that these details should be provided to the representatives of the political parties before the first-level checking is completed.

Jangminlun Gangte was shot in a firing incident in the adjoining villages of Narasena. His cousin alleged that he was killed by the Manipur police commandos during the attack on their village, Khousabung, which is only 5 kilometres away from Naransena.

On August 9 and 14, locals say that the administration along with the police undertook large-scale demolitions, pushing at least 500 people to homelessness.

These shutdowns are adding a new worry to the administration, already battling a surge in militancy in Jammu after decades of relative calm. Shops and business establishments remained shut in the Hindu-majority districts of Jammu, Udhampur, Samba and Kathua on Saturday

aka 'How to tell Lok Sabha elections are near'.

Since April 2022, around six prominent Kannada writers have been receiving threat letters via post. The warning messages in the letters are directed at 61 other writers and intellectuals, all of whom have been speaking against communalism, religious radicalism, and Hindutva. All the letters are handwritten, and according to the writers whom TNM spoke to, the handwriting seems similar and most were posted from central Karnataka’s Chitradurga district, a few from other places like Shivamogga and Tumakuru to districts across the state where the writers live.

The Velliyanai police arrested four youths linked to the attack and booked them under appropriate sections of IPC and Scheduled Caste Scheduled Tribes Prevention of Atrocities Act 1989.

CBI has conducted searches at six locations on the premises of the accused after the registration of the FIR, the officials said

In another significant moment for the movement against caste discrimination in the United States, a Bill to make caste discrimination illegal was passed by the California State Assembly on Monday, August 28, with 50 votes in its favour and only three against it. It was earlier passed by the state's Senate in May this year. With its passage in the state Assembly, California will become the first US state to ban caste discrimination. The legislation will add caste as a protected category under 'ancestry' in California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act, Education, and Housing codes.

In what could lead to yet another diplomatic flare-up, China has released what it called the "2023 edition of the standard map" of the country showing Aksai Chin – one of the two large disputed border areas between India and China – and whole of Arunachal Pradesh within its territory, according to reports quoting local Chinese media. The map was released on Monday, August 29, by China's Ministry of Natural Resources, the reports said. The latest development has come four months after Beijing had announced in April that it will "standardise" names of 11 places in Arunachal Pradesh.

Abhishek Kumar and Deepak Sharma discussing what we can expect from Modi's Sanjay Mishra & his ED till Sept. 20 (in Hindi)

Outsiders have been barred from entering the district with security personnel being deployed at all the entry points

Girijesh Vashistha analyis on the money being spent on G20's summit meeting in Delhi (In Hindi).

Government will come out with norms to boost this rail-sea-rail route in a move to reduce the logistics cost for coal transportation and reduce power cost

The Karwan-e-Mohabbat team visited five relief camps between July 25 and July 28 to assess the humanitarian crisis and highlight the suffering and demands of those internally displaced in Manipur and shared its findings in a 31-page report

Ravish Kumar on BJP's persecuton of opposition using ED-CBI-IT (in Hindi)

Ambiguities, omissions and exemptions in the Digital Personal Data Protection Act will result in poor enforcement, encourage low accountability and diminish transparency.

“When students ask if we are a democracy after 2019, it is difficult to answer,” senior lecturer Zahoor Ahmad Bhat told the Supreme Court

Deepak Sharma - Inside Operation ED (in Hindi)

A clause-by-clause comparison of what the Bills propose to replace has been prepared by NLU Delhi's Project 39A.

The officials said it was incumbent upon them “not only to maintain political neutrality but…also appear to do so…and not subscribe in aid of, or assist in any other manner in this regard”. The RSS-linked bodies have since objected to being called "political".