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Free speech “eroding”: report details 137 incidents of free speech violations in the past 4 months

sabrangindia - May 2, 2024

A report by the Free Speech Collective has warned about losing “last remaining” space for free speech as it notes that a huge number of free speech violations have taken place between January - April 2024.

India

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

sabrangindia - May 2, 2024

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.

Hate Speech

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

CJP Team - May 2, 2024

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.

India

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

Jay Patel - May 2, 2024

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

Politics

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

rajiv shah - May 1, 2024

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

Gender and Sexuality

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

sabrangindia - April 30, 2024

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.’

Labour

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

A Legal Researcher - April 30, 2024

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

Communal Organisations

RSS deceit on constitutional reservation and Dalits in general

Shamsul Islam - April 30, 2024

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

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Congress leader of the opposition Kerala Assembly writes to Modi, Fadnavis over arrest of a Malayali priest in Nagpur

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In a strongly worded letter to Prime Minister, Narendra Modi and Maharashtra Chief Minister, Devendra Fadnavis, V.D. Satheesan, Congress leader of the opposition Kerala Assembly has sought urgent intervention regarding the detention/arrest of twelve individuals, including Father Sudhir, a priest of the CSI South Kerala Diocese, arrested by the Maharashtra Police following a complaint filed by Bajrang Dal activists

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Poetry award for Ipsa Shatakshi at the world book fair, January 2026

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Activist and poet, Ipsa Shatkashi, will be awarded the kritya Yuva Puraskar 2026 at the World Book Fair on January 15, 2026

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West Bengal: SIR unravelled

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Multiple reports of serious anomalies in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process being unilaterally conducted by the Election Commission of India (ECI) in West Bengal have come to light; exclusion of Matuas, immigrants from erstwhile east Bengal, is only one of them

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