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MoEFCC subverting the Forest Rights Act, 2006: 150 Citizens groups

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Over 150 countrywide organisations have in a communication to Prime Minister Narendra Modi outlined how the Forest Rights Act, 2006 is being consistently undermined, threatening not just Adivasis but forests and the environment
India

Deported in Silence: India’s mass expulsions of alleged Bangladeshis without due process

Tanya Arora -
Since May 7, over 2,000 individuals—mostly Bengali-speaking migrants—have been rounded up and covertly deported under Operation Sindoor, a nationwide crackdown bypassing legal safeguards. But a growing backlash from constitutional courts and state governments—especially West Bengal—has begun to challenge the legality, profiling, and human cost of these shadow deportations.
Gender and Sexuality

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

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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

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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...
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“Humans Cannot Just Disappear”: Gauhati High Court told in Doyjan Bibi case as State fails to produce pushback documents

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July 25 hearing exposes disturbing lack of procedural compliance; BSF confirms ‘pushback’ of Doyjan Bibi, but State fails to furnish proof of handover to Bangladeshi authorities
India

Non-Electors Within Electors: ECI reports over 61 lakh potential exclusions

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As Bihar's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) deadline arrives, ECI data reveals over 61 lakh potential voter exclusions, including millions identified as deceased, migrated, or 1 lakh untraceable, and nearly 7 lakh who haven't submitted forms, this massive culling of names fuels the INDIA Bloc's intensified, third-day protest, marked by LoP Mallikarjun Kharge's dramatic tearing of a symbolic SIR document outside Parliament
Rule of Law

7/11 Bomb Blasts: Supreme Court Judgement says Bombay HC Order cannot be treated as Precedent

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The Supreme Court has not interfered with the high court’s finding in the 7/11 train blasts case that the 12 men are innocent; their personal liberty, for the moment remains unaffected after release
India

Bihar’s untraceable electors spiral by 809% in just one day, ECI reports 1 lakh ‘missing’, 15 lakh Bihar voters yet to submit forms

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Bihar's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter rolls faces intense backlash, while 52 lakh deletions were flagged by July 22 by the controversial ECI, including 11,484 "untraceable" electors, this figure for "untraceable" voters shockingly surged to 1 lakh (an 809% jump) by July 23, with overall deletions hitting 56 lakh—a dramatic increase of 3 lakh in just 24 hours. Leader of the Opposition, RJD leader, Tejaswi Yadav threatens boycott of state polls
Rights

From villages to docks, Maharashtra rises against a weaponised law, eviction & vigilante violence

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Three powerful protest movements, against a repressive law, vigilante violence, and forced evictions, are converging in Maharashtra, revealing a common story: the criminalisation of survival
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