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Assam mob brutally tortures tribal and Muslim men

Two men are mercilessly attacked by a mob in Magurmari, Kokrajhar, Assam, in a shocking incident of violence

Fortuitous week for BJP functionaries as courts protects 3 from punitive action under law

No conviction in assault case, no FIR in hate speech, no violation of election code for BJP MP Ram Shankar, Assam CM Sarma and BJP president JP Nadda respectively

Mumbai: Unprecedented Draconian Crackdown on activists, on “9th August Quit India Day!”

Freedom Fighter Dr. G G Parikh prevented from reaching the August Kranti Maidan, Tushar Gandhi, taken to Santacruz police station, Teesta Setalvad was stopped from leaving her residence!

Rising Tensions: Hindutva organisations continue with hate speeches across India

Hate speeches inciting violence against Muslims and Christians raise concerns. 

Has situation of women changed from historic Draupadi to Draupadi of democratic India?

A picture of a male, mocking and pulling a woman's sari to strip her naked in the presence of full-fledged male dominated assembly appears...

Alarm bells must set off in the country on the hate killings by RPF constable Chetan Singh, says PUCL

Day to day trial, transparent and independent investigation, fair compensation and sensitisation and training to Railway officials is a must, demands PUCL Maharashtra

‘Ethnic cleansing by State?’ HC stops Haryana’s Nuh & Gurugram demolitions

Taking suo motu notice of the highly publicised demolitions by the Haryana government over the past one week’s of escalated communal tensions at Nuh, and Gurugram earlier, the high court, quotes the Constitution and due process of law

Will recently amended Birth Registration law be (mis)used to curb voting rights, even launch the dreaded NPR?

After the Lok Sabha passed Bill (amendment to the 1969 Births & registration law) to create a National Database of Births & Deaths giving sweeping powers (and control) of birth, death registration data to the union government, its serious implications need to be examined. With birth registration already having severe loopholes (77 % of children in urban areas and only 56.4 % in rural areas have had their births registered) if a birth registration certificate is made a precursor to the right to vote, implications could be disastrous. And undemocratic.

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