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Conduct independent inquiry into Arun Goel, Election Commissioner’s resignation, don’t allow elections until inquiry public: Open letter to President Murmu

A former secretary to the government of India, Dr EAS Sarma has, in an open letter to President Draupadi Murmu urged her to invoke special powers under the Constitution, not allow announcement of elections or any major policy decision until an independent inquiry into the sudden resignation of Arun Goel is carried out and made public

UP Government SIT recommends closure of 13, 000 Madrasas, alleges unaccounted funding from ‘Gulf’

A three-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) formed by the Uttar Pradesh government has brought about its preliminary report and has stated that there are 13,000 ‘illegal’ madrasas spread across Uttar Pradesh.

Another case filed against T Raja Singh as he calls for fighting war against religious conversion

In a recent speech in Karnataka made on March 4, Singh reportedly made incendiary comments against Muslims in India as he called them slurs and reportedly asked Hindus to rise against them.

Majoritarian Nationalism: Undermining Scientific Temper

With Hindu Nationalist BJP in the saddle of power from the last one decade there has been a deliberate promotion of a pattern of...

ECI must announce elections only after SBI provides details of corporate purchase of electoral bonds: Ex-Civil servants

In a strongly worded public appeal to the Election Commission of India (ECI), 80 former public servants have argued for a moral and legal compulsion for elections to be held only after SBI makes corporate purchase of electoral bonds public

Cop caught kicking and slapping Muslims during Friday prayer

A disturbing video has recently gone viral from Delhi's Inderpuri area, where the video captures the shocking actions of a police officer kicking and slapping Muslim men engaged in Friday prayers on the road Makki Jama Masjid.

Ankita Bhandari Case: Protests for justice enters 7th day, victim’s parents leading the protestors, condemning the arrest of the journalist seeking action in Ankita’s...

Independent journalist Ashutosh Negi, who frequently raised his voice in support of Ankita, was arrest on March 5 by state police, booked under SC/ST Act, sent to 15-day judicial custody

Women’s protests against sexual violence continue as institutions bend to power

In the past 15 months, women have risen in significant numbers to protest against sexual violence and harassment they have experienced, whether in Manipur, among women wrestlers, students of BHU, or in Sandeshkhali.

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Hindutva’s Rajasthan Project: Brahmin-Bania Power, not just Muslim baiting

The RSS’ and Hindutva’s strategy in Rajasthan has systematically pushed the dominance of a Brahmin–Bania synergy that shrewdly ensures that while Muslims are scapegoated, Rajputs are historically and politically side-lined and the real beneficiaries are the Brahmin-Bania elites who monopolise both state power and wealth.

When Conservation Becomes Coercion: The silent violence faced by the Tharus of Kheri

Over 4,000 Tharu Adivasis in Lakhimpur Kheri — including a blind man, a chronically ill man, and several elders — have been wrongfully booked. This analysis shows how administrative discretion and recent forest-law amendments are further undermining the protections guaranteed to forest-dwelling communities under the Forest Rights Act, 2006
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