A young Muslim man named Afsar Ali, who worked as a tailor in Rajasthan, was beaten to death after he reportedly asked a driver who brushed past him on the road to drive carefully.
A war of conscience and powerful words has broken out among the Indian Catholic clergy after Prime Minister Modi’s Christmas invite (December 25, 2023) to select church heads, who then circulated videos bowing in abject praise to the leader; a public campaign “Not in Our Name” was sought to be curtailed by some priests, leading to a powerful Open Letter from Father Anand in Varanasi
A mass campaign will also be organised prior to the Ayodhya structure inauguration to make people aware about the pro-corporate economic policies of the Union government, “communal narrative” of BJP
Conservative and right-wing groups rise in power across the world, a growing number of citizens are inevitably consuming and accepting the ideology they seek to preach.
A month-long campaign of a multitude of online and offline events called Jana Gana Mana Abhiyan has been launched in an effort to re-vitalize citizens who take pride in India’s rich, diverse, plural cultural heritage and work towards a society based on constitutional values.
The open letter has alleged that peaceful protests were met with fake encounters, abductions and demolition of houses belonging to the protesters by police and other government instrumentalities
Maharashtra, with 9,78,54,049 has electors which is the base figure for the re-examination of electoral rolls under the ongoing SIR; now the CEO Maharashtra has outlined a schedule detailing deadlines for enumeration, draft publication, claims and objections, verification, final electoral roll publication and post-publication correction procedures
While Parliament broadens the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, crime records show only 60 convictions from over 1,100 arrests between 2014 and 2024
The July 28 interim order preserves evidence and contemplates an SIT, but leaves unresolved who should investigate when the police themselves stand accused
The author argues that varied protests and movements of the past dozen years --from the anti-CAA/NRC protests, to the farmers’ mass mobilisations to the recent Gen ‘Z’ upsurge --these movements may differ in their immediate demands, but they share a common democratic foundation: Citizens do not take to the streets because they have abandoned faith in the Republic. They do so because they believe the Republic can still be made to listen.
Following weeks of pressure from student groups and opposition parties, the state has begun withdrawing police cases linked to the NEET protests, while assuring there will be no coercive action during the legal process