Videos have emerged of resident Muslims claiming they were lathi charged at the polling booths. Samajwadi Party, which has won several times in the region, has also supported this claim.
With the BJP fighting to maintain its winning streak after it won 9 out of 14 Lok Sabha seats in 2019, opposition parties have sped up their campaigning as well, giving a tough fight.
The platform representing several farmer organisations has urged farmers, workers, women and the common man to teach a lesson to the BJP in the 18th Lok Sabha elections
In a letter addressed to all the leaders of INDIA parties, regarding the discrepancies in the voting data released by Election Commission of India (ECI) and non-publishing of actual numbers of registered voters, Mallikarujun Kharge, Congress President has raised serious issues on the dysfunctional partisan conduct of the statutory body
In a statement marking one year of what it calls “genocidal violence” in Manipur, the civil rights network Forum Against Corporatization and Militarization (FACAM)...
Gujarat’s coast has seen thousands of structures demolished in government drives, many people allege Muslims were particularly targeted. In light of this, now over 500 such fishermen have now been denied the right to vote.
Building on Pankaj Bansal and Prabir Purkayastha judgements, the Court constitutionalised a uniform standard—every arrest, whether under IPC/BNS or special enactments, must be supported by written grounds communicated in the arrestee’s own language, failing which the arrest stands void
Officials at Attari–Wagah reportedly told the pilgrims, “You are Hindu, you cannot go with a Sikh group,” sending them back despite valid travel documents
As India’s online world expands, so does the gap between crime and accountability. NCRB data records numbers, but not the reasons behind their soaring increase; besides erasure of reporting of gendered cybercrimes constitute a glaring gap: there is an absence of adequate reportage within NCRB on stalking, cyberbullying, morphing, which are show a mere 5 per cent of rise
Justice P.V. Kunhikrishnan reasserts constitutional and gender equality, procedural fairness, and the emotional agency of Muslim women in a landmark judgment
The passing of 90-year-old Bhadant Gyaneshwar, President of the Kushinagar Bhikshu Sangh and a disciple of Bhante Chandramani—who gave Baba Saheb his deeksha at the historic Deekshabhumi in Nagpur on October 14, 1956, on Dhammachakrapravartan Day—represents a great loss for the Buddhist fraternity worldwide