Protests and solidarity continue days after simultaneous raids at Newsclick and associated journalist, concerns at government’s oppressive tactics raised
Reports of a communal incident of another teacher asking a student to beat a Hindu student has come to light in Uttar Pradesh. The accused has been arrested.
Another harrowing incident of mob rule emerges from Gujarat, after a private school teacher was beaten for allegedly making students perform namaz as part of an awareness activity
The police said that the assailants were “angered” by the statement he made against the Meitei Leepun, a radical Meitei organisation allegedly responsible for targeted violence; a former IPS officer compelled to retract her criticism as well
The Court held that the compensation amount should be recovered from the salaries of sub-inspectors Rajeev Gautam and Shamim Khan, the two police officers who put the petitioner in the lock-up.
An ADR Report analyses in detail the nationwide offences of hate speech and co-relates this to the offending elected officials, be it members of parliament (MPs) or members of the state legislative assemblies (MLAs)
Chained, beaten and abused, for refusing to work in inhuman conditions, four Dalits were forced to dig a well; a young boy and family was beaten for having taken a stand against caste abuse in two of the latest cases of violence against Dalits.
The Forum for Electoral Integrity has petitioned the National Human Rights Commission to urgently intervene in the Election Commission’s SIR process, citing UN concerns, the coalition alleges the arbitrary, mass deletion of 52 million voters, disproportionately targeting Muslim and Bengali citizens through organised campaigns and opaque AI systems
In his viral video, Prakhar Shrivastava, a pro-Hindutva commentator on history, calls the Quit India Movement a “super-duper flop.” Shrivastava’s claim is similar to the decades of the extremist Hindu organisations’ arguments downplaying 1942. Viceroy telegrams, Churchill’s private remarks, and Bose’s own broadcasts say otherwise.
After the July 20 police crackdown in Delhi, solidarity protests spread across India, matched with repression and police action in Bihar and Goa; these widespread protests reflected youth anger against the perpetual and repeated examination paper leaks over the past decade