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Will Asjad Babu Get Justice in Today’s India

subhash gatade - June 3, 2025

“Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them”– George Elliot (English Novelist and Poet, 1819-1880)Firdaus Alam alias Asjad Babu –...

India

Vanished Without a Trace: CJP writes to NHRC detailing Assam’s secret detentions and illegal pushbacks

CJP Team - June 3, 2025

CJP’s memorandum to NHRC reveals mass night-time raids, disappearances of Bengali-speaking Muslims, and extra-legal deportations—signalling a grave constitutional and humanitarian crisis in India’s northeast

Politics

Assam: Slamming Sarma’s actions as discriminatory & unlawful, LOP, Assam Assembly Debabrata Saikia calls for an urgent stop to “pushback” of citizens

sabrangindia - June 2, 2025

Since May 23, hundreds of marginalised persons, many of whose cases are pending adjudication, have been unlawfully detained in Assam, and worse, pushed out, without due process across the international border, to Bangladesh; many have also returned

Communalism

Odisha: Graham Staines’ Brutal Murder; Mystery Hangs Over Dara Singh’s Release

D N Singh - June 2, 2025

The Bajrang Dal activist is serving a life term for one of the most heinous crimes in India, of burning alive the missionary and his two children inside their vehicle.

Farm and Forest

TN: Sugarcane Farmers Protest, Demand Better FRP, Reintroduction of SAP

Newsclick Report - May 31, 2025

The previous AIADMK regime had introduced the RSF which should be abolished and SAP be reintroduced, the protesting farmers demanded.

India

President or Governor, People Have Right to Governance!

M Sridhar Acharyulu - May 30, 2025

The Centre itself wanted a time limit for assent to Bills in 2016. So, is a fresh SC hearing on Presidential Reference even necessary?

Farm and Forest

NDA’s 11 years of betrayal: MSP of Kharif crop way below promised C2+50%

sabrangindia - May 29, 2025

The All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) in a detailed analysis of the both procurement as the share in food grain production and the overall data on Minimum Support Price (MSP) growth rate which shows a decline as exposed the hollow claims of the Modi government

Rights

‘Seeking peace, calling out hate crimes not a crime’: Former Civil Servants Group on Mahmudabad

sabrangindia - May 29, 2025

A group of former civil servants, the Constitutional Conduct Group (CCG) has released a statement of solidarity with Ashoka University professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad who was arrested for a social media post and then released on interim bail by the Supreme Court of India.

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Following the “I Love Muhammad” controversy in September 2025, Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath’s public warnings—using phrases like “chedhoge to chodenge nahi” and “denting and painting must be done”—were swiftly mirrored by mass arrests, property demolitions, and internet shutdowns, raising urgent questions about legality, proportionality, and the social impact of executive speech

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