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Kerala Local Body Election Results Ring Alarm Bells in the Left’s Last Bastion

The CPI(M)'s Hindu outreach alienated Muslims in northern Kerala while Hindu voters migrated to the BJP anyway, with the Left party getting caught between two vote banks, satisfying neither.

Allahabad HC: Quashes FIR under draconian UP ‘Anti-Conversion Act’, warns state authorities against lodging ‘Mimeographic Style’ FIRs

Apart from quashing the FIR lodged in April 2025 that was patently motivated, the Division Bench held the State to account by asserting its constitutional role and requiring the Principal Secretary (Home) to file a personal affidavit explaining the conduct of the Pratapgarh police

RSS: The Flag, the Funds and The Missing Transparency

At first sight, Keshav Kunj in Delhi looks like a luxury hotel—gleaming stone, grand facade, heavy security. Yet this multi–hundreds-crore complex is the headquarters...

MNREGA to G RAM G: Ideological shift, erosion of rural workers’ rights, increase of fiscal burden on states

In continuance of its assault on constitutional rights, the Constitution itself and a rights based framework in rural work, the Modi 3.0 government’s introduction of a Bill to replace the MGNREGA 2005 twenty years later negates the basic concept and approach of a robust demand driven law

Muslim clothes hawker dies after prolonged mob torture in Bihar’s Nawada

A week after being brutally attacked in Nawada, Mohammad Athar Hussain succumbed to his injuries, leaving behind unanswered questions on accountability, identity-based violence, and justice

Ensure free & fair elections, Congress warns Election Commissioners, threatens strict action over ‘vote theft’ at a massive show of strength at Delhi’s Ramlila...

The party showcases nearly 6 crore signatures as part of its campaign against vote chori; senior leaders stated that vote theft is an attack on Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s Constitution, and accuse the BJP-RSS of standing with untruth and power; INC mobilises thousands of party workers at Delhi’s Ramlila Ground on December 15

Mian Maqdoom Shah shrine, Mumbai’s Mahim Durgah & the December Urs

I saw quite a few processions going towards the Mahim dargah in Mumbai for the annual Urs celebration of the Muslim saint last evening....

Interim bail to Gujarat journalist Mahesh Langa: SC

Langa has been in Sabarmati jail for over 14 months

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