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‘Designed to Exclude’: The ongoing enumeration phase of the SIR

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In a multi-state report on the hasty and ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process being conducted by the ECI, the PUCL has, echoing what opposition parties and other civil rights groups been stating, called it ‘designed to excluide’
India

The Deadly Deadline: “I Can’t Do This Anymore”—India’s electoral revision turns into a graveyard for BLOs/teachers

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From consuming poison in Uttar Pradesh to hanging in West Bengal, the ‘Deadly Deadline’ of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) triggers a suicide wave among teachers and Anganwadi workers, employees’ unions cry 'institutional murder' while families mourn loved ones broken by state pressure
Communal Organisations

November 26: How RSS mourned the passage of India’s Constitution by the Constituent Assembly

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On November 26, 2025, India’s 77th Constitution Day, students of history must recall how majoritarian outfits like the RSS mourned the passage of modern India’s liberating moment, the passage of the Constitution
Rule of Law

A Terror Case Without Evidence: Allahabad High Court’s ‘heavy heart’ acquittal After 28 Years

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A devastating judicial analysis reveals how a mass-casualty blast, a collapsed investigation, and an inadmissible police confession led to the undoing of a decades-old conviction
India

A Salute across the skies, from Air Commodore Pervez Akhtar Khan

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The tragic death of 37-year-old Indian Air Force (IAF) pilot, Wing Commander Namansh Syal, who lost his life on Friday, November 21 when a Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA Mk-1) crashed during a demonstration at the Dubai air show, brought this moving response from Pakistani Air Commodore Pervez Akhtar Khan from across the border
India

Clarity Without Cure: The Supreme Court’s reinterpretation of Articles 200 and 201 and the future of federal governance

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The opinion restores textual fidelity to Article 200, but its institutional hesitations risk enabling executive obstruction of democratically enacted State legislation
India

SIR exercise leaves trail of suicide across states as BLOs buckle under pressure and citizens panic over citizenship

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The SIR of electoral rolls has come under severe distress following a series of suicides involving Booth Level Officers (BLOs) and marginalised citizens in West Bengal, Rajasthan, and Kerala, families and employee unions allege that the pressure to complete a traditionally lengthy verification process in the name of SIR within two months is causing fatal mental distress
Gender and Sexuality

Beyond mere Recognition: The Jane Kaushik judgment and the next frontier of transgender equality

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In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court acknowledged the dignity and rights of employment of transgender individuals, ordered monetary compensation for a transwoman teacher who had been terminated from her position, and ordered that a model Equal Opportunity Policy be made mandatory in all institutions, going further than the Constitution's promise of equality in private employment
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UN Rights Experts flag Discrimination in ECI’s SIR exercise, seek India’s response

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Three United Nations’ Special Rapporteurs have formally written to the Indian government on expressing serious concerns over alleged discrimination against the minorities in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) conducted by the ECI –especially in West Bengal –and seeking information on steps taken to ensure that the process aligns with India’s obligations under international human rights law
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