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Bundelkhand grassroots activist’s tryst with rich folk song, dance of weaker sections

Lok Laya is an annual festival of folk arts, music and dance of Bundelkhand organized in Chitrakut district by Samaj Seva Sansthaan, along with...

Bhopal police manhandles and detains Dalit Dy Collector Nisha Bangre as she takes out protest march

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

‘Reorganisation’ of J & K into two union territories, constitutional? Part III of the analysis in the 370 case

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

Jharkhand HC: Case against BJP leader for abusing driver under SC/ST Act quashed

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

VHP leader Sharan Pumpwell stopped by police from entering Udupi for attending Hindu Samajotsava

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

BJP leader Shubhkaran Choudhary promotes corrupt electoral practices, CJP moves the ECI

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

Article 370, permanent or temporary? Part II of arguments in Supreme Court

This is Part II of a series summarising arguments presented in the Article 370 hearings before the Supreme Court

California governor has put concerns of ‘privileged’ diaspora castes over civil rights

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.”

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Supreme Court asked to intervene as petitions flag “normalisation of hate” in Assam CM’s public speeches

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

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Suo moto cognisance of repeated hate speech by CM Assam, Himanta Biswa Sarma must: Assam’s public intellectuals to Gauhati HC

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Assam’s Electoral Rolls in Crisis: CJP flags structural manipulation in Summary Revision

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