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In UP SIR, ECI software auto-generated 85,854 forms to delete voters without a reason. The law mandates people should know the reason for their deletion.
@TweetSumedha , @ayushikar1998 and @ShubhangiJourno report.
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A report first done as an exclusive by my dear friend and a superb courageous journalist @Bengiaajum for @arunachaltimes_ and subsequently copied up by @IndianExpress. 👇
As Siang dam protests turn violent, NHPC’s Rs 11-crore PR push faces test indianexpress.com/article/in…
Militarising the lives and lands of our people. It's hubris of the State and it's poweful elements including those in power in the state to believe this will subjugate the will of the people to their profits.
State police says 30 companies of CAPF alongside state & paramilitary forces (15 CRPF incl. 4 RAF, 8 ITBP, 4 SSB, 3 Assam Police Bn), Arunachal police & IRBn jawans are stationed across East Siang, Siang & Upper Siang districts. That’s around 3000 armed personnel put together. All this to crush the indigenous people’s movement against a forceful move of the Centre to build an 11,000 MW hydropower project named the Siang Upper Multipurpose Project to counter China’s dam building in upstream Tsangpo in occupied Tibet. How is this justified? They keep saying "national security." What about the indigenous people who guard the Indian state in Arunachal? Are we invisible and insignificant, not worth seeking consent from?
Nitin Sethi retweeted
UP voter rolls-Another FIR lodged: this in Sultanpur under cognizable offences (cheating, forgery) over a "conspiracy" in which forms to delete votes of 26 people were submitted through docs bearing the forged sign of one Nand Lal.
SP had alleged PDA names were being deleted
We at The Reporters Collective @reporters_co, a tiny non-profit newsroom, stood up to defend journalism against govt attempt to paralyse the profession through a Trojan horse in the Privacy law. We filed a case before the Supreme Court in February 2026 and launchedwww.rti404.com, a watchdog project to protect RTI and journalism, both.
Months later the for- profit big media businesses have realised, not just journalism but revenue of their media business would be hurt too by what the govt is doing.
Personally, I am glad they have eventually seen value in joining us.
Read Our Statement from February 16, 2026. 👇
reporters-collective.in/blog…
EXCLUSIVE: India’s biggest news publishers including Ambani's Network18, Adani's NDTV, Indian Express, Times Internet & others mount the most high-profile challenge yet to Modi’s privacy law, warning it would “render investigative journalism a benign and neutered recorder of events.”
DNPA (@publishers_news) has taken the law to the Supreme Court. They argue it would trample investigative work and let New Delhi identify journalists’ sources.
The provisions “constitute pre-censorship which is anathema to any democracy worth its name,” the group’s 698-page filing says.
The key concerns:
🔹 Consent: requiring a journalist to notify the subject of an investigation and seek consent “would allow that subject to destroy evidence, intimidate witnesses”
🔹 Erasure: people can withdraw consent and demand their data be erased, which the group says could force publishers to unpublish or heavily redact news reports
🔹 Sources: a “nakedly unguided” power to demand information that “can extend to privileged communications in possession of a reporter or the informant”
In a letter to the government, the group said India “has chosen to grant broad exemptions to the state, while failing to extend any corresponding protection to the press.”
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Nitin Sethi retweeted
Anti-dam activists #EboMili and #OtulJerang, who are in #Pasighatpolice custody, have gone on a hunger strike. They reportedly started the strike this morning. The duo #surrendered after violence surrounding the #SiangUpperMultipurposeProject escalated on Friday night.
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Indian Express's big HL from today is about NHPC's "PR push" over the proposed Siang dam — a story @Bengiaajum broke nearly a week ago:
shorturl.at/caB24
Good journalism requires we credit — a newspaper giant can afford to, esp. when it's building on work by NE reporters.
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Arrest of these young activists is deeply concerning. Also CM Pema Khandu says the door is open for dialogue, but anti-dam activists continue to get arrested. This mix messaging is confusing everyone. How will people trust the government?
@tongamrina @nit_set @TanushreePande
(Prominent anti-SUMP activists arrested after Pasighat violence)
The Arunachal Times - arunachaltimes.in/article/pr…
#antiSUMPactivists #arrested #PasighatViolence #SUMP
Nitin Sethi retweeted
We are also Indian, we are not Pakistan, we are not chinese. Are you trying to devour us like vegetables. Why are. Deploying arm forces here like this? We are not afraid of guns and bullets. We will save our mountain, we will save our rivers and ancestors land.
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Look at the sheer number of armed personnel that have descended upon Pasighat, which saw a night of violence, vandalism, and the looting of the homes of elected representatives from Friday night to Saturday. This followed a Gen Z protest against militarisation and the arrest of villagers protesting against the Siang upper multipurpose project. The flights bringing in Rapid Action Forces stopped just a short while ago. This is state-sponsored violence and provocation.
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@TADAK_NALO’s FB page is restricted. It is easy to guess why. He is popular with the youth and raises relevant issues, the most recent being his questioning of the govt regarding Chinese intrusions into Indian territory in Arunachal Pradesh and the crackdown on the indigenous resistance against Siang Upper Multipurpose Project.
Nitin Sethi retweeted
Tadak Nalo, the founder and chairman of the Arunachal Frontier Tribal Front (#AFTF), has alleged that his Facebook page, "#TadakNalo for Revolution," was restricted in India. Nalo has recently been raising the issue of the #SiangUpperMultipurposeProject and alleged #Chinese encroachment into Indian state of #Arunachal.
When a news organisation suggests Indian citizens don't have the right to the truth from its govt. About territorial integrity. From a govt thay boasts much on the front.
Nitin Sethi retweeted
Watch this. It was a peaceful dharna against Siang Upper Multipurpose Project. Police said that to disperse the Pasighat Gen Z protesters “ mild force” was used. Is this your mild force? @PemaKhanduBJP @NatungMama @DgpPradesh explain this to the people.
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Tajong Talom, one of the prominent faces of the Pasighat #GenZmovement against the Siang Upper Multipurpose Project (#SUMP), was reportedly detained by the #AssamPolice in Sivasagar, Assam, last night. Talom stated that he was intercepted while on his way to #Delhi to address a press conference regarding the ongoing mega-dam issue. A family member mentioned that he was subsequently handed over to the #ArunachalPradeshPolice, but they remain unaware of his exact current location.
Nitin Sethi retweeted
While media attention is focused on Chinese intrusion in Taksing and Maza circles in Arunachal, locals have appealed for similar attention to the poor road and internet connectivity in the area. #Watch report for details
#Taksing #Arunachal
@nit_set
youtu.be/4H59gAP-c4s?si=eI1B…
Nitin Sethi retweeted
Otul Jerang is a young schoolteacher. Polite, soft-spoken, he speaks straight from his heart about his people and the Siang River. I first heard him speak during a rally in Pasighat against the Upper Siang Multipurpose Project—a project that will affect his own village. He is currently in police custody after the GenZ protest took a violent turn in Pasighat. Please do listen to him explain why he chose to surrender to the police.
Nitin Sethi retweeted
EC orders a re-poll at 4 booths in Agra for MLC polls after 'booth capturing'. But the SP has also alleged that booth capturing took place in 14 places in 4 districts--Amroha, Agra, Fatehpur, Prapatgarh. In Amroha, 7 booths recorded voting % 92.02-96.3, inc fraudulent votes
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It’s rare to find people like Ebo Mili in Arunachal Pradesh. Absolutely resolute and committed to ensuring that indigenous communities are heard, and that the Indian state cannot bully them, @Ebo_Mili_Linggi is one of a kind. While elected representatives have compromised their positions in the name of national security, Ebo has stood firmly with the state's indigenous people. As the state began militarising the Siang Valley without the people's consent, Ebo has been in Siang Valley. Ebo is currently in the custody of the Arunachal police along with Otul Jerang, following a Gen Z protest in Pasighat that turned violent after police used force to disperse the crowd on Friday evening. Please do listen to his reasons for surrendering to the police.