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reporter, local investigations @nytimes, photojournalist, recovering lawyer, freshly minted mississippian. previously @NLSIUofficial & @columbiajourn.

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I graduated with a B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) degree from National Law School of India University, Bangalore in 2019. After a year as a junior corporate lawyer for a commercial firm, I am working with Land Conflict Watch - a data research project studying and compiling reported natural resource conflicts across India. I lead the legal research associated with these conflicts, along with analysing and writing about issues of forest and environmental governance. My professional goal is to make the law -…

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Is Uttarakhand abusing disaster management laws to allow rampant riverbed mining?

Is Uttarakhand abusing disaster management laws to allow rampant riverbed mining?

Uttarakhand's River Training Policy, revised in 2020, invokes the Disaster Management Act to allow unregulate…

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Contested Grounds

Contested Grounds

From March to May 2021, four states – Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal are conducting elections for …

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2021 Polls: What Does Data on Land Conflicts in Bengal, Assam, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu Show?

2021 Polls: What Does Data on Land Conflicts in Bengal, Assam, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu Show?

Issues of land acquisition and land rights are always contentious, more so around election time and often fea…

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Draft amendment to Forest Conservation Act may dilute protection to forests

Draft amendment to Forest Conservation Act may dilute protection to forests

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has proposed amendments to the Forest (Conservation) A…

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Can forest clearance grantees have their names added in record of rights, MoEF&CC asks states

Can forest clearance grantees have their names added in record of rights, MoEF&CC asks states

Communication between the Himachal Pradesh government and the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Ch…

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Feminist Methodology in Technology Research: A Literature Review

Feminist Methodology in Technology Research: A Literature Review

Feminist research methodology is a vast body of knowledge, spanning across multiple disciplines including soc…

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ICE must provide bond hearings within 90 days to detainees awaiting removal decision, 5th Circuit Court of Appeals says

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By Mukta Joshi
| Mississippi Today Verified
Mukta Joshi is an investigative reporter at Mississippi Today. She is spending a year as a New York Times Local Investigations fellow examining immigration and criminal justice issues. She can be reached at [email protected]. Immigrants arrested within the country are entitled to a bond hearing within 90 days of detention, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 Thursday.
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ICE must provide bond hearings within 90 days to detainees awaiting removal decision, 5th Circuit Court of Appeals says

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By Mukta Joshi
| News from the States
Mukta Joshi is an investigative reporter at Mississippi Today. She is spending a year as a New York Times Local Investigations fellow examining immigration and criminal justice issues. She can be reached at mukta.joshi@nytimes.com. Immigrants arrested within the country are entitled to a bond hearing within 90 days of detention, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 Thursday.
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Senatobia police stonewall requests for details of officer shooting that killed 1-year-old outside Walmart

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By Mukta Joshi
| Mississippi Today Verified
Mukta Joshi is an investigative reporter at Mississippi Today. She is spending a year as a New York Times Local Investigations fellow examining immigration and criminal justice issues. She can be reached at . SENATOBIA – Nearly three weeks after police fatally shot a 1-year-old boy outside a Mississippi Walmart, state and local law enforcement agencies have offered few details about the incident and refused repeated requests to release public records.
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