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Punjab: Farmers Block Rail Track, say Compensation for Land Acquisition Inadequate

KMC spokesperson Gurbachan Singh Chabba said government was acquiring the land for the Bharatmal project but not paying adequate compensation.

CJP complaints to CP, Amravati against Sakal Hindu Samaj event, urges stringent action

Bharatanand Saraswati had delivered a hate speech last week at Amravati, riled up the audience by the Muslim community for spread of Covid

Bearing Witness to Catastrophe and Collapse: The Indomitable Sheetla Singh

Sheetla Singh and Jan Morcha have, in so many ways, protected us from the all-pervasive scourge of revisionist and targeted hate.

30 FIRs Registered against Hate Speech and Hate Crimes: DGP, Maharashtra

In its affidavit filed in the Supreme Court of India (SC) in the ongoing case filed by Shaheen Abdullah v/s Director General of Police, Maharashtra (DGP), the Maharashtra police has stated that, since February 2023 as many as 30 FIRS have been registered in hate speech related cases in the state

A minister for Culture is the new Union Law Minister: GOI

Arjun Meghwal, a former IAS officer and a low key Dalit politician from Rajasthan will now be the Union Minister of State for Law

Strong condemnation after ED questions researcher Navsharan Singh

Singh had been an active supporter of people’s movements and a prominent participant in the farmers' protests that shook the Union government in 2020-21.

Escalating atrocities against minorities, US urged to issue sanctions against offending individuals: IAMC

The first quarterly report of the Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC) makes a detailed set of recommendations as it flags religious persecution in India

Gauri, a film on journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh wins international award: Montreal 2023

At the South Asian festival in Montreal, the Best Long Documentary Award recently

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Before asking what dangers delimitation poses, we must first examine a more fundamental issue: what are the existing problems, and will delimitation actually solve them? The real crisis in Indian governance today is not a shortage of representatives; it is the over-centralisation of power.

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In a strong rebuke, the Allahabad High Court questions misuse of the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2021, calls out investigative lapses, and directs state authorities to act against frivolous complaints while protecting the accused and the woman at the centre of the case

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Even as media accessed the three bills tabled without consultation in Parliament, experts and citizens groups have criticized the opaque and non-consultative methods employed by the Modi 3.0 government

Understanding power through caste: Dr. Ambedkar’s contribution to the sociology of law

Dr Babasaheb’s understanding of Indian society was pivotal: he was prescient in the dangers that loomed ahead, even after drafting the Indian Constitution; because caste-based inequality remains deeply entrenched in society and the post-Independence state did not go much beyond providing formal equality to the lower castes and other marginalised communities, Dr. Ambedkar was acutely aware of the continuing presence of upper-caste hegemony from society to politics and from culture to the economy
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