Intemperate and insensitive remarks by Congress MLA Phool Singh Baraiya on women, rape and women from Dalit and Adivasi communities have left the Congress shame-faced on the eve of LoP Rahul Gandhi’s visit to the state
Abducted, brutally assaulted and gang-raped during the Meitei–Kuki conflict, the young Kuki woman succumbed to trauma-linked illness as her case languished without arrests, exposing systemic failure in prosecuting sexual violence in Manipur
A total of 121 women got elected the Mumbai Mahanagarpalika in 2026, crossing the 50 per cent mark: with 227 corporators in all; BJP has sent 47 women to the civic body, Shiv Sena (UBT)34, SS (Shinde) 17, Congress 13, MIM 4, MNS 4 and NCP and Samajwadi Parti one each
Be it the Jagannath Mandir in Odisha, a Buddhist temple that was ‘taken over’ by Hinduism or the Jain idols destroyed during Adi Shankracharya’s countrywide yatra, these are no less historically significant than the stories around Somnath and other temples that may have been razed and raised by emperors who happen to be Muslim
From the “love jihad” conspiracy to public humiliation of Muslim women, the complaint details how hate speech was used to inflame religious divisions during the BMC election period
In one more attack on ordinary working-class Muslims in a state ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a 33-year-old man was reportedly lynched –and thereafter died--after being forced to utter an aggressive religious symbol in Balasore, Odisha last Wednesday, January 7. Three suspects have been thereafter arrested states Times of India, a video of social media shows a mob assaulting the man and forcing him to shout ‘Jai Shri Ram’ and ‘Gau Mata Ki Jai’
Whipping up hysteria using the term ‘Bangladeshi’, attacks on Muslim workers and hawkers rise sharply in Bihar with one fatal lynching in Madhubani; BJP took power in the state in a controversial election victory on November 14, 2025 and its cadres are reportedly responsible for this spread of hate crime, though JD(S) leader Nitish Kumar remains the CM
After a medical college in Jammu was shut down because Muslim students got admission to MBBS on merit, because of hate and vilification, now, due to hate propaganda, a school in Baitul district of Madhya Pradesh has been reportedly bulldozed simply because it was built by a Muslim
Members of National Alliance for Justice, Accountability and Rights (NAJAR - Gujarat) - a pan Indian collective of progressive lawyers and law professionals and the National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM Gujarat), along with many civil society organisations of the state have strongly objected to the proposed amendments to the Gujarat Registration of Marriages Rules, 2006, notified on February 20, 2026
Sexual minority coalitions across the country and civil liberties groups have strongly opposed the 2026 Amendment to the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill that dilutes and nullifies the 2019 law
Through a look at the grassroot uses of the path-breaking 2005 Right to Information Act, the authors examine how recent amendments have completely diluted if not nullified its impact on transparency in governance