Nisha showed her torn jeans along with a torn picture of Dr. BR Amedkar as a result of manhandling; her foot march was to protest the non-acceptance of her resignation as she wants to contest the MP Assembly elections
The third part of the series examines the validity of the union government’s action in reducing the status of Jammu and Kashmir, without consulting the state legislature, to two union territories
The court held that ingredient of SC/ST Act are absent as there was no proof to the effect that BJP leader Pratul Shahdeo also did not belong to the caste of the complainant
The prohibitive directive stemmed from the conditional bail granted to him in the case of delivering alleged provocative speech, raising calls of women taking up arms
Video showed Choudhary addressing a crowd and ‘guiding’ people about the best time to capture a booth and cast fake votes, openly defying established election laws and manipulating the free and fair election process of India
When Sen. Strom Thurmond and other Southern Democrats set out to defeat the landmark civil rights legislation of the 1960s, they argued that there was no need to take any measures to counter racism in the United States, since, in Thurmond’s words, “there are already ample laws on the statute books.”
CPIM, Annie Raja, former civil servants and clerics seek FIRs, an independent SIT and binding guidelines on speech by constitutional functionaries, alleging sustained communal targeting and abuse of executive authority
The Karnataka Janaarogya Chaluvali (Karnataka People’s Health Movement/Struggle) has written a strong critique of the draft Karnataka Right to Health and Emergency Medical Services Bill 2025, questioning its rationale and orientation; the critique points how this draft has been mostly borrowed from the Rajasthan Right to Health Act (2022). Besides, says KJC, while some activists in Karnataka have been clamoring for a replication of the Rajasthan Right to Health Act, this demand has been made without investing too much thought into whether this is what Karnataka requires
Close to a dozen public intellectuals including Hiren Gohain, Harekrishna Deka, former DGP, Assam and author, Dr. Indrani Dutta, former Director, Omiyo Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and Development, among so many others, have in a letter petition to CJ, Gauhati High Court, Justice Vijay Bishnoi drawn attention of the Court to series of inciteful statements by Himanta Biswa Sarma, Chief Minister and urged suo moto cognisance
CJP-led memorandum to the Election Commission documents forged objections, misuse of Form 7, and violations of statutory safeguards meant to protect the right to vote