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Bengali Migrant Workers Detained in Odisha: Calcutta High Court demands answers, seeks coordination between states

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Court poses six pointed questions on detention of Sainur Islam and demands answers from Odisha over detention of youth during ‘identification drive’; Court directs West Bengal to appoint nodal officer
Children

Thane School Horror: Principal, attendant arrested for forcing girls to strip in menstruation check, case registered under POCSO

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Girls as young as 10 were allegedly stripped and subjected to invasive checks by school staff in Thane’s Shahapur after bloodstains were found in a washroom, prompting arrests, protests, and charges under POCSO and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita
Politics

Bihar:  SC signals that ECI should consider Aadhaar, EPIC (Voter ID card) & Ration card for electoral roll revision 

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Hearing a batch of petitions challenging the sudden “special intensive revision” being conducted in Bihar by the Election Commission of India (ECI), the Supreme Court (SC) pressed ECI to include Aadhaar, Voter ID Card, and Ration cards in Bihar's electoral roll revision process, since the only concern for the constitutional body was establishing accurate identity not citizenship
Rights

Mumbai’s Second Lifeline in ICU: Mumbaikars respond to call of “Save BEST”

Sandhya Gokhale -
By deliberately running Mumbai’s unique and stellar public transport system to ‘die’, the BMC backed by a land-grabbing state government is set to make transport even more unafordable for working Mumbaikars
Politics

Dissent Note: Maharashtra Special Public Safety Bill, 2024

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Sweeping powers, vague definitions, and silencing of dissent entrenched in law; deliberative process exposed as political theatre
India

One of Urdu’s Greatest Scholars, C.M. Naim, Passes Away

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The UP-born professor was said to be among the finest and authoritative voices on Urdu.
India

SC: ECI’s ‘wisdom’ on revision of electoral rolls challenged, does a disenfranchisement crisis loom over Bihar, with thousands being declared ‘‘D’ (doubtful) voters?

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The ECI's credibility, already under sharp public scrutiny post-Lok Sabha Elections 2024, is further strained by its Bihar Special Intensive Revision (SIR) order of June 24, a controversial directive announced even after electoral rolls were finalised in January 2025: the move faces multiple judicial challenges before the Supreme Court. Hearings are scheduled before a vacation bench tomorrow, July 10
India

Bengali-Speaking Migrants Detained En Masse in Odisha: National security or targeted persecution?

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Over 440 people, mostly Bengali-speaking migrant workers, have been detained in Odisha’s Jharsuguda district under suspicion of being “illegal Bangladeshis”, prompting a political storm, allegations of ethnic profiling, and appeals for immediate release
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Bangladesh Court declares six deported Bengalis as Indian citizens, orders their repatriation

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In a dramatic reversal, a Bangladesh court has ruled that two families — including a pregnant woman from West Bengal’s Birbhum district — who were forcibly deported from Delhi as “illegal Bangladeshis” are in fact Indian citizens, citing their Aadhaar and home addresses
Law & Justice

Crimes Uncounted: When Data Becomes the State’s Defence

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A delay of two years, unreliable hate-crime statistics, and discarded sedition charges, the NCRB 2023 Report offers us marginal data on crime but plentiful data on social control
Rule of Law

Mere Presence Does Not Imply Guilt: Supreme Court defines clear test for liability under unlawful assembly

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In a significant ruling on mob liability, the Court acquitted ten men convicted for a 1988 double murder in Bihar, laying down a definitive test to distinguish innocent bystanders from participants in an unlawful assembly
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On living the legacy of Fr. Stan Swamy

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Smoke & Mirrors, 130th Constitution Amendment Bill: Real issue is the trading of MLAs

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Not only is the proposed law, not referred to a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) a harmful attempt to change the fundamental nature of Indian criminal law and ratify this harmful change by a constitutional amendment, it also completely side-lines a long overdue and crucial discussion on the unethical topping of popular governments by horse-trading of MLAs
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