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How and why Indian women are made to go hungry

Neha Chauhan and Fahad Nahvi - July 28, 2023

Underpaid and unpaid work -- in India, on average, 66% of women's work is unpaid, compared to 12% of men’s work even as they invest 90 per cent of their income back into the families as compared to just 40 % by men, has rendered Indian women more acutely prone to hunger, malnutrition and anaemia

Communalism

Anti-conversion law of Uttar Pradesh: a litany of misuse

CJP Team - July 27, 2023

Since its enactment, this weaponised law, under challenge in the Supreme Court, has resulted in a series of incidents of wrongful arrests and confinement even while section 4, that stipulates only someone directly affected is a complainant, is routinely violated

Freedom

Demands Unyielding: Opposition and Citizens persist in seeking PM Modi’s response on Manipur violence and Assam CM’s resignation

sabrangindia - July 27, 2023

More protests organised in solidarity with the victims of violence, opposition alliance ‘INDIA” demands accountability, justice

Dalit Bahujan Adivasi

How just is the idea of Uniform Civil Code for India’s Adivasis and Indigenous Peoples?

Rishi Singh - July 27, 2023

The overriding concerns, voiced by Adivasis and Indigenous peoples from across India is, that under the ruse or guise of the UCC (Uniform Civil Code) the rights of Scheduled Tribes to governance and control over their lands and customs will be deviously snatched away

Farm and Forest

Recognising fair compensation for farmers land is a non-negotiable human right: Bombay HC

Nabeel Masood - July 27, 2023

“Incorporating the Right to Property: Beyond Constitutional and Statutory Bounds, Embracing the Essence of Human Rights as Inalienable Individual Liberties.”

Dalit Bahujan Adivasi

Controversial Forest Conservation (Amendment) Bill, 2023 passed by Lok Sabha without any change, all concerns ignored

Tanya Arora - July 27, 2023

Bill passed within 30 minutes amid cries of "Shame” and “We want justice” raised by opposition demanding statement on Manipur, “development” to supersede forest rights, landmark Godavarman decision of the Supreme Court on deforestation

Rule of Law

Bail order cannot be cryptic and casual, needs to be backed by reasons considering vital aspects: Supreme Court

sabrangindia - July 26, 2023

Cancelling the bail granted to 3 accused of honour killing, the SC bench reiterated the factors to be considered while granting bail, says order cannot suffer from the vice of non-application of mind

Culture

Government a threat to Indian legacy, education, jobs: Gandhian institute taken over, residents evicted, bulldozer to follow

sabrangindia - July 26, 2023

On Saturday, over 500 police men entered the campus of Sarva Seva Sangh, Varanasi, forcefully evicted residents, threw books and furniture out in the rain, employees too were left jobless and homeless; civil suit pending in court

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Gender and Sexuality

Andhra Pradesh High Court rules Trans woman is a ‘woman’

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A recent judgement of the AP High Court, in Viswanathan Krishna Murthy is a significant step forward for the legal recognition of transgender rights in India, in much as it establishes a clear precedent that the protections against domestic cruelty apply to Trans women in heterosexual marriages.

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Principles of secret ballot, free will compromised, electronic surveillance a possibility with Voting APP introduced by the ECI: Expert

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Veteran in computer science and architecture of unique software, Madhav Deshpande seriously questions the Voting APP introduced by the Bihar State Election Commission for local body polls; He alerts Indians to the possibility of electronic surveillance, the constitutional principles of free will and secret ballot being violated in the manner in which the constructed software is being stored

Rights

Ajith Kumar’s custodial death exposes Tamil Nadu’s unbroken chain of police impunity

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In the temple town of Madappuram, Sivagangai district, 27-year-old B. Ajith Kumar, a contractual security guard at the Badrakaliamman temple, was allegedly tortured to death by police officials on June 28, 2025, after being picked up in connection with a missing gold complaint. The case has sparked public outrage, judicial scrutiny, and brought back uncomfortable memories of the Jeyaraj-Bennix custodial deaths of 2020 in Sathankulam

Education