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A Question of Rights: Supreme Court backs teacher in maternity leave dispute

A Legal Researcher -
In a recent judgement where the SC upheld maternity relief to a teacher, for the first child of a second marriage (when she previously had had two children) balanced Tamil Nadu state’s policy on population control with fundamental rights like reproductive rights and child birth that cannot be interpreted in a vacuum
Gender and Sexuality

Andhra Pradesh High Court rules Trans woman is a ‘woman’

A Legal Researcher -
A recent judgement of the AP High Court, in Viswanathan Krishna Murthy is a significant step forward for the legal recognition of transgender rights in India, in much as it establishes a clear precedent that the protections against domestic cruelty apply to Trans women in heterosexual marriages.
India

Principles of secret ballot, free will compromised, electronic surveillance a possibility with Voting APP introduced by the ECI: Expert

Madhav Arvind Deshpande -
Veteran in computer science and architecture of unique software, Madhav Deshpande seriously questions the Voting APP introduced by the Bihar State Election Commission for local body polls; He alerts Indians to the possibility of electronic surveillance, the constitutional principles of free will and secret ballot being violated in the manner in which the constructed software is being stored
Rights

Ajith Kumar’s custodial death exposes Tamil Nadu’s unbroken chain of police impunity

Shailendar Karthikeyan -
In the temple town of Madappuram, Sivagangai district, 27-year-old B. Ajith Kumar, a contractual security guard at the Badrakaliamman temple, was allegedly tortured to death by police officials on June 28, 2025, after being picked up in connection with a missing gold complaint. The case has sparked public outrage, judicial scrutiny, and brought back uncomfortable memories of the Jeyaraj-Bennix custodial deaths of 2020 in Sathankulam
Education

Whither SCOPE? Twelve years on, Gujarat’s official English remains frozen in time

rajiv shah -
While writing my previous blog on how and why Narendra Modi went out of his way to promote English when he was Gujarat chief...
World

New York’s New Equation

Shama Rebecca Sarin -
At 11:47 PM on June 24, 2025, Andrew Cuomo walked to the microphone at his campaign headquarters in Midtown Manhattan, the flesh sagging beneath...
India

97,000 persons convicted in UP under ‘operation conviction’: State Govt

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Of this significant if not staggering number, 68 accused persons were sentenced to death, 8,172 received life imprisonment, 1,453 were sentenced to over 20 yrs., and 87,465 were sentenced up to 20 years’ states a report in The Hindustan Times.
Culture

‘What happened to Ali Mohammad was wrong’: UP temple’s Muslim caretaker held for offering namaz; Hindu priest to arrange bail, says he served with...

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In Budaun, Times of India reported how a temple priest has offered to bail out a Muslim caretaker arrested for offering namaz on temple grounds. Paramanand Das condemned the video recording and emphasised Ali Mohammad's decades of faithful service. Despite the arrest and charges of defiling a place of worship, Das affirmed Ali's respect for all faiths and the temple's inclusive nature.
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