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Assam’s intellectuals rally for democracy: Condemn chief minister’s conspiracy allegations against Dr. Hiren Gohain

The Sahitya Akademi award winner, 85-year-old Gohain has repeatedly been targeted by the CM for his vocal stance against the ruling BJP government. In January, 2024, the chief minister also directed Gauhati University to take action against a teacher who merely displayed support for Gohain.

Why Modi’s poll histrionics accusing Congress of potentially fracturing away SC/ST quotas to Muslims is a spurious claim?

Muslim SEBCs enjoy the benefits of reservation under the OBC category in Gujarat –under BJP rule since 1995-- and Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes have a constitutionally mandated provision for reservation which cannot be taken away without amending the Constitution

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

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.

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.’

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