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Topic: UAPA

75th Independence Day celebrations may be over, but dissent is still not ‘free’ in India

Ashish Chauhan -
Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.

Held for chats on ‘threats to Islam’, jailed under UAPA, how Maharashtra man got bail after 6 yrs

Bhadra Sinha -
Saying there was no 'incriminating' evidence, Bombay HC last week granted bail to Mohammad Raisuddin, a schoolteacher from Parbhani district arrested on terror charges in 2016.

With sedition, SC has dipped its toes in the civil liberties pool. Now we wait for the dive

Apoorva Mandhani -
Until the safeguards are laid down to prevent misuse of laws like UAPA, NSA or PSA, sedition’s departure might not have too much of an effect on ground.

‘Bond, Romeo, Juliet’ & WhatsApp group chats: Why Umar Khalid was denied bail in Delhi riots case

Apoorva Mandhani -
Delhi court rejected contention that Khalid was not in Delhi during the riots, and relied on statements from protected witnesses to reject the former student-leader's bail plea.

Bulli Bai, Sulli Deals show that we Indians don’t respect the dignity of people different from us

Sharmistha Shivhare -
Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.

NIA team to visit Germany to probe SFJ operative Multani for ‘planning attacks on India’

Ananya Bhardwaj -
NIA says 'no reports on Multani’s involvement in the Ludhiana court blast yet', adds that he had never been on their radar earlier. Punjab Police, however, have a record of him.

4,690 arrested, 149 convicted under UAPA between 2018-2020, Modi govt tells Parliament

PTI -
Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai added that there are adequate constitutional, institutional and statutory safeguards to prevent misuse of UAPA.

SC rejects NIA’s plea challenging Bombay HC’s bail to Sudha Bharadwaj in Bhima Koregaon case

PTI -
'We see no reason to interfere with the high court order,' said the bench while refusing to consider the submissions raised by NIA.

SC to hear plea to quash UAPA charges by Tripura police against 2 lawyers, journalist

PTI -
Advocates, Mukesh and Ansarul Haq, and journalist Shyam Meera Singh are booked under the UAPA for allegedly disseminating information about communal violence in Tripura.

Editors Guild of India ‘shocked’ at Tripura Police FIR against journalists, seeks fair probe

ThePrint Team -
Journalists' body says the move reveals an ‘extremely disturbing trend’ of a harsh law being used for merely reporting communal violence. Here’s the full statement.
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Pakistan: Imran Khan's Instagram account hacked, doubious crypto link posted

Imran Khan’s becoming costly for Pakistan govt. But army won’t completely remove him from scene

Ayesha Siddiqa -
Imran Khan is so tuned into Pakistan’s domestic politics, he sees foreign policy more as a ploy. That’s why he can surprise his rally audience with a Jaishankar video.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the nation from the rampart of Red Fort on the occasion of 76th Independence Day, in New Delhi Monday | ANI/Sanjay Sharma

In the debate over freebies, India is forgetting it traded rule of law for welfare services

Emissions rise from chimneys at the Turow coal-powered power plant | Representational image | Photo: Bartek Sadowski | Bloomberg

Carbon market in India is long time coming. But Modi govt can learn from these mistakes

Economy

India’s ‘salaried class’ shrank during Covid, Muslims hit hardest, govt data suggests

Nikhil Rampal -
India’s salaried class shrank by 2.7 percentage points during pandemic, govt’s Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) shows. But data for religious minorities, women is even bleaker.

Defence

The two frigates under construction at Yantar shipyard in Russia | Snehesh Alex Philip | ThePrint

Not dependent on Ukraine for engines, want to be part of Make in India initiative, says Russia

Snehesh Alex Philip -
India had procured gas turbine engines from Ukraine & handed over to Russia to install them on the Admiral Grigorovich-class guided-missile stealth frigates being made for the Navy.

National Interest

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Tiranga vs Tiranga: Gloves are off as Kejriwal joins the ‘nationalism’ battle with Modi

Shekhar Gupta -
Kejriwal’s maun vrat on Modi has ended. This is an important turn in Indian politics. In some ways rivalling the dramatic turn in Bihar.

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