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Australia, World express shock at Sydney’s Bondi Beach terror attack, toll rises to 16, Govt promises stricter gun laws

sabrangindia - December 15, 2025

As the horrific news of Sunday’s Bondi Beach terror attack at which two gunmen, a father-son duo killed those at a Jewish Celebration; Reuters reported that while the Police did not release the shooters' names, but said the father had held a firearms license since 2015 and had six registered weapons; they were however identified as Sajid Akram and his son Naveed Akram by state broadcaster ABC and other local media outlets. A fruit seller hero, identified by 7News as 43 year-old Ahmed al-Ahmed, a bystander fruit-seller

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Silent Scars: How Muslim widows of hate crimes endure layered, unseen oppression

Heenakausar Khan - December 13, 2025

Ayesha or Samreen, Maharashtra’s Muslim women widows of hate crimes live abandoned by family and society, haunted by questions to which neither state nor society provides healing or answers

India

Complaint filed by CJP against Arunachal Minister Ojing Tasing for threatening denial of welfare schemes

CJP Team - December 13, 2025

Complaint states that Ojing Tasing’s remarks amount to coercion of voters, distortion of democratic process, and unconstitutional use of state power

Communalism

NBDSA Raps Times Now Navbharat for communal, agenda-driven broadcast; orders removal of inflammatory segments

CJP Team - December 13, 2025

In a win for Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), the broadcast regulator holds the channel responsible for stereotyping Muslims, manufacturing a false narrative, and linking unrelated crimes to an entire community

Rule of Law

When Morality Meets Surveillance: The court’s push toward state-regulated digital content

CJP Team - December 13, 2025

As the Supreme Court pushes the Union to regulate online obscenity and now suggests Aadhaar-based age verification, India stands at the edge of a new regime where the State decides what citizens may see, say, or seek

Communalism

‘Babri Masjid’ v/s Gita recital: In a cynical play of communal politics, pre-poll West Bengal sees active polarisation at both ends of the spectrum

sabrangindia - December 12, 2025

Months ahead of polls, Bengal politics takes a communal plunge –minority and majority -- with electronic and print media playing up both events: the foundation laying ceremony of the “new Babri Masjid” and the “Gita Recital” at the Brigade Parade Ground, Kolkata

Children

Maharashtra: Seven districts saw 14,526 child deaths in three years says Govt

sabrangindia - December 12, 2025

In sharp contrast to other development parametres, these high infant mortality figures, reveal an institutional malaise that needs urgent addressing

Culture

Bettina Bäumer’s Inclusive Philosophy Is What We Need in Such Times

Shail Mayaram - December 12, 2025

Her autobiography is a rare account of a woman’s journey in the deepest sense from Europe to India; from Christianity, both Protestant and Catholic, to the Philosophy of Recognition or Pratyabhijñā, popularly called Kashmir Śaivism.

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The recent protest at the Lecture Hall of IIT Delhi where slogans of “Investigation, Compensation, and Resignation”, were raised by the student collective raises the crucial demand for redistributive justice, firstly demanding that the administration to recognise these deaths as the failure of institutions to recognise structural inequities, denials and cruelties.

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