The Court revealed that as per the report of the committee headed by Justice Gita Mittal, some civil society organizations were obstructing families of the deceased from taking the identified bodies for funeral reported LiveLaw and Bar & Bench.
A Dalit teen is reported to have been brutally assaulted and humiliated by a group of youth, following which an FIR was filed against four suspects, one of which has been arrested. Contrary to media reports, the police have stated that preliminary investigation has revealed that reports of the victim being forced to drink urine are untrue.
Prabir Purkayastha, founder editor of the news portal, ‘Newsclick’, was arrested on Oct 4, 2023, under the draconian Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, along...
For another year running, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), in its 2026 Annual Report, has in strong recommendations, urged the US government to designate India as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC), “for engaging in and tolerating systematic, ongoing, and egregious religious freedom violations, as defined by the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA)”
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), in its 2026 Annual Report, has apart from continuing to designate India as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC), also recommended targeted sanctions against the RSS; this is a first.
From migrant workers and small vendors to university classrooms and electoral rolls, the architecture of suspicion –for the Indian Muslim--now stretches across everyday life
Move comes days before Supreme Court hearing in habeas corpus petition filed by his wife; Ladakh activist had been detained following September 2025 protests over statehood and Sixth Schedule protections