An accelerated pace in using Aadhar data meant for one purpose to create a National Population Register (NPR) which is the first step towards an all India National Register of Citizens (NRC) appears to have been undertaken, since 2015 with 119.34 crore Indians being listed thus without informed consent, a citizens investigation reveals; besides, selective profiling of Christians in pars of Mumbai, Mira Road, Thane are also concerning
The third meeting between the farmer leaders and the union ministers yielded no result, ministers assured ceasefire till talks are taking place; more than 100 farmers have been injured till now, three lost vision due to pellets
A group of higher caste men attacked a Dalit man at his wedding and forced him to get off his horse because they did not think Dalits can be allowed to ride horses. The police have arrested four of the accused as of now
The police have filed a case against a group of people in Maharashtra’s Parbhani for assaulting a young teenager and then later assaulting a fruit seller within a span of 30 minutes.
Punjab government to bear cost of treatment of those injured, Delhi police order 30,000 tear gas shells; Economist MS Swaminathan asserts that law on MSP is fiscally doable, debunks falsity of Indian economy falling into bankruptcy due to guaranteed MSP
The five-judge Constitutional bench has struck down the scheme and the amendments made to the RPA Act, IT Act and the Companies Act; observed the right to privacy donors is important, transparency in political funding cannot be achieved by granting absolute exemptions
The revenue department’s takes a step closer to dismantling casteist practices. A demand to bring down the caste wall was advocated by several advocacy groups against untouchability
Haryana police uses drones to throw tear gas at farmers, Daughter of Professor MS Swaminathan requests government to not treat farmers like criminals while celebrating the Bharat Ratna awarded to her father
From ghost voters in Bihar to duplicate entries in Maharashtra, years of citizen warnings have exploded into a national flashpoint after opposition parties accused the Election Commission of enabling “vote theft”
Shivasundar, a freelance journalist, writer, and longtime associate and dear friend of fiery activist-journalist Gauri Lankesh, who was assassinated on September 5, 2017, by extremists alleged to belong to the dreaded Sanatan Sanstha has penned this heartfelt poem on Gauri. On the eighth anniversary of her dastardly assassination.
MHA’s latest notification streamlines exemptions for select groups, formalises detention centres, and echoes religion-based exclusions first introduced in 2015, raising constitutional and human rights concerns