Terming such restraints “super injunctions” rare in a free country, the Supreme Court refused to curb media coverage of explosive allegations of decades-old murders and secret burials linked to the Dharmasthala temple, even as a Karnataka SIT probes 13 suspected burial sites
As the brutal caste killing of Kavin Selva Ganesh shocks Tamil Nadu, a petition urges the NCSC to form a fact-finding committee and arrest Sub-Inspectors named in the FIR.
Instead of treating complaints from political parties and the public at large as vexatious, the Commission should take advantage of them as useful feedback and correct its procedures and practices
In a detailed exposé, the Leader of Opposition claims over one lakh fake votes in a single Karnataka constituency and warns of nationwide voter list manipulation, calling it a constitutional crisis that threatens the very foundation of Indian democracy
The normalisation of an everyday majoritarianism, Neo-Hindutva, has been facilitated by the silence of the Muslim liberal; an urgent challenge is being able to move out of the confines to reaffirm wider processes of secularization as a counter
Staggering 96.6% Spike in just 48 Hours: new voter inclusion forms double from 4.33 Lakh to 8.51 Lakh as claims & objections period in Bihar SIR enters day 29, with 4.18 lakh forms flooding in between August 26–28
The author, himself a student of AMU explores the complex dynamic between culture, civilization and political identity, arguing that when religion becomes the rallying cry for the latter, a tendency towards theocratic authoritarianism (communalism) emerges, that also, inevitably impacts gender sensitivity and equity; Iqbal also poses sharp questions to organisations like the Jamaat-e-Islaami Hind (JIH) on state, gender relations etc.
Enabling long, ten hour work days and minimal payment of overtime compensation, the INC-ruled Telangana government pushes ‘reform’ at the cost of workmen’s rights, and justice