A village panchayat in Rajasthan's Jalore district has prohibited daughters-in-law and young women from 15 villages from using phones with cameras starting January 26 which is also India’s Republic Day, the day the Indian Constitution came into force. Instead, they will only be allowed to use keypad phones instead of smartphones; explaining the rationale, Sujanaram Chaudhary said the community believes that excessive smartphone use by women leads to prolonged screen exposure for children living with them
The Editors Guild of India has unequivocally condemned the physical assaults and incidents of mob attacks, vandalism and arson against prominent media persons and media establishments in Bangladesh.
Media reports state that the state Local Self Government Minister MB Rajesh alleged that the man from Chhattisgarh had been ‘attacked after being stigmatised as Bangladeshi’
Incidents recorded between September and November 2025 point to a recurring pattern of assaults, intimidation, identity policing, religious disruption and state action affecting Muslim and Christian communities across multiple states
Recent rapes, assaults and deaths of women and girls from Kashmir’s Gujjar and Bakarwal communities, repressed in the region’s social order and relegated to servitude raises serious questions of gender and Adivasi (indigenous) persons right to life, dignity and access to equal health care
The recent protest at the Lecture Hall of IIT Delhi where slogans of “Investigation, Compensation, and Resignation”, were raised by the student collective raises the crucial demand for redistributive justice, firstly demanding that the administration to recognise these deaths as the failure of institutions to recognise structural inequities, denials and cruelties.
Maharashtra's SIR draft electoral rolls have excluded over 2.07 crore names in the enumeration period: Pune has recorded the highest number of deletions; electors can file claims and objections until September 30