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Manipur: a year on, thousands of lives disrupted but the conflict continues

As Manipur’s ethnic conflict reaches a year since it started last summer, not much has changed in the state, violence rages on as people suffer in relief camps with little medicine, food, or privacy.

April: CJP’s hate watch campaign analyses several hate incidents reported across the country in the last week

From Sakshi Maharaj’s circumlocutory jibe at Muslims producing “40 children” to children asking those who do not chant Jai Shree Ram to leave the country, we track and analyse several such instances in this piece for our Hate Watch campaign.

How safe is my vote? A detailed look back at the EVM-VVPAT controversy in India

The Supreme Court in its latest judgement on April 26 dismissed the petition seeking 100% VVPAT paper trail verification with EVM votes; Court however introduced changes in the existing electoral process to make it more accountable

Urban Naxal to Amit Shah, AAP Bharuch candidate tops ADR Gujarat criminal cases list

Refusing to go beyond the data released by the Election Commission of India (ECI) on the Lok Sabha candidates’ own declarations of their criminal...

NDA candidate Prajwal Revanna accused of sexually exploiting and videotaping thousands of women

Karnataka MP Prajwal Revanna, and his father, have been accused in a serious case of sexual assault for sexually exploiting women and videotaping these incidents almost 3000 times. Meanwhile, his father, H D Revanna has claimed that the videos are ‘4-5 years old.’

Swiggy’s tiered insurance scheme for delivery fleet & the inherent nature of the Gig economy

In the name of flexibility and independence, differential insurance slabs come at the expense of workers’ rights and protections. Companies like Swiggy leverage this flexibility to implement performance-based incentives that may inadvertently contribute to a culture of overwork and stress among their workforces; by intervening the Congress ruled governments of Karnataka and Rajasthan (formerly) have shown the way

RSS deceit on constitutional reservation and Dalits in general

RSS which claims to be the biggest organisation of Hindus in the world is, in fact, a unique organisation which trains its cadres in...

The Installation of a Hanuman Idol by Night in an NCR Complex Tells Us Larger Things About India

Given that all Indian citizens can express our free will and do so openly, would it have been tolerated if a church or a mosque had been suddenly constructed in the apartment complex? Or would that too have fallen prey to a demolition?

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