The Hindu 02 July 2020 All Assam Students’ Union symbolically burn copies of ordinance, apex tribal body demands scrapping of ‘anti-indigenous’ move. The Assam government’s approval of an ordinance to allow conversion of land without clearances for setting up micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) triggered protests across the State on July 2. The State […]
Outlook 02 July 2020 Guwahati, July 2 (IANS) The Assam Cabinet”s approval of an ordinance to allow conversion of land without multiple clearances from the certain authorities for setting up Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) set off protests within and outside the state on Thursday. According to police and official sources, agitators from the […]
By Prasanta Mazumdar, The New Indian Express 02 July 2020 According to the Assam government decision, anyone can set up an industrial unit in the state by submitting just a self-declaration. GUWAHATI: After social media users and several organisations, a rights body expressed its opposition to an ordinance, approved by the Assam Cabinet which allows […]
The Sentinel 02 July 2020 The Assam Cabinet’s ordinance on MSMEs allows the setup of industries without any kind of permission or license for three years Guwahati: The Rights and Risks Analysis Group (RRAG) today urged the Assam Governor Professor Jagdish Mukhi, not to give assent to the Ordinance approved by the Assam State Cabinet […]
The Economic Times 02 July 2020 “This will be disastrous for the MSMEs as their investment shall remain stuck up because of the illegality of land acquisition. This is equally disastrous for the individuals or communities on whose lands industries will be set up as they will be forced to challenge illegal land acquisition before […]
Mirror Now 01 July 2020 #NoDignityInDeath | If someone dies in hospital due to #COVID, hospital authorities have to inform family, & only then can undertake the burial. Family members can’t touch the body & have to maintain distance: @ChakmaSuhas, Director – Rights & Risks Analysis Group to @tanvishukla pic.twitter.com/tJaNWqVGS8 — Mirror Now (@MirrorNow) July […]
Media oppression is a shifting landscape By Sevanti Ninan, The Telegraph India 29 June 2020 For some years now, the growing challenge to journalism has come from the increasing use of predictable laws. These are the Sections relating to sedition and criminal defamation in the Indian Penal Code and, until it was struck down in […]
Live Law / View in PDF Version28 June 2020 “Custodial death is one of the worst crimes in a civilised society governed by Rule of Law. Does a citizen shed off his fundamental right to life, the moment a policeman arrests him? Can the right to life of a citizen be put in abeyance on […]
Live Law / View in PDF Version in Hindi28 June 2020 कानून द्वारा शासित एक सभ्य समाज में कस्टडी में मौत सबसे बुरे अपराधों में से एक है। जब एक पुलिसकर्मी किसी नागरिक को गिरफ्तार करता है, तब क्या उसके जीवन के मौलिक अधिकार समाप्त हो जाते हैं? क्या नागरिक के जीवन के अधिकार को […]
The Wire 24 June 2020 Days before his killing, Shubham Mani Tripathi had informed authorities that he had been threatened by persons involved in illegal sand mining and land encroachment activities. New Delhi: A reporter for a Kanpur-based newspaper was killed on June 19 in Unnao district of Uttar Pradesh, allegedly at the behest of a […]