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Protest outside Delhi HC gate over bail in Unnao rape case, survivor’s mother asks for maximum punishment

Protesters gathered near the court premises, raising slogans and expressing opposition to the bail order

Sharp spike in cases of child marriage and child trafficking in 2020!

The number of under-age marriages jumped from 523 to 785 within a year, this even as Covid-19 brought about unprecedented economic hardships on families

BMC reports only 43 vasectomies in 2021-22

Blaming the decline on the Covid-19 pandemic, authorities said they will address the issue with new vigour

In rare circumstances woman can acquire caste of husband: K’taka HC

Court was examining a case where a woman married to an ST man was removed from her position in the gram panchayat as the seat was reserved for an ST candidate

HC grants bail to former IPS officer Amitabh Thakur

Arrested on August 27, 2021, after a rape victim died by suicide, accusing him of protecting accused, BSP MP Atul Rai

Punjab and Haryana HC expands scope of Sec 377 IPC and “sexual intent”

The Court held that penetration was not a necessary ingredient for invoking the offence and the sexual intent was an imperative aspect

Mumbai court rejects bail plea of  Bu**i Bai app case accused Vishak Kumar Jha

Citizens for Justice and Peace, and human rights organisations had written to Mumbai Police Commissioner, urging a deeper probe into the matter 

Hijab Ban: Identity politics or body policing?

CJP secretary Teesta Setalvad and social scientist, Dr. Muniza Khan, discuss the question no one has asked yet

Madras HC commends TN gov’t for new Police rules, glossary for referring to LGBTQIA+ persons

Court hails how this will ensure that media, press and the society will address such people in a more dignified and respectable manner

Opinion: A salute to Muslim sisters from Karnataka

The hijab controversy could be a deliberate attempt by the right-wing to attack how Islam is understood and practiced by its followers

No Hijab in class: Will Puducherry be able to nip the controversy in the bud?

Meanwhile, Karnataka High Court will hear a plea against the hijab ban in several junior colleges today

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Protest outside Delhi HC gate over bail in Unnao rape case, survivor’s mother asks for maximum punishment

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More than 3.5 crore electors have been provisionally deleted from electoral rolls across 12 states and UTs following the publication of draft rolls under the SIR, Uttar Pradesh, which has the largest electorate in the country, is scheduled to publish its draft electoral rolls on December 31, 2025, marking the next major phase of the ongoing controversial revision exercise

Free Speech in India 2025: What the Free Speech Collective report reveals about a year of silencing

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Demand that Modi provides Rs 1 crore compensation for migrant worker, Ram Narayan Baghel killed by right wing goons in Kerala: AIKS

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Kishore Theckedath: an exceptional Marxist intellectual and mass organiser

Kishore Thekedath who passed away at 89 in Mumbai hailed from Kerala and was among the founder members of the Bombay University and College Teachers Union (BUCTU) in 1966, remaining on the Executive Committee of the body for fifty years until 2016; he was also the Vice President of the Kerala People's Education Society (KPES), which has been running the large Adarsh Vidyalaya in Mumbai very well for several decades. This tribute, by Ashok Dhawale, senior CPI-M leader brings alive Thekedath’s contribution to the collective struggles of teachers and students

Kerala: Protests erupt after RSS-BJP man’s alleged attack on children’s Christmas carol group in Palakkad

Clearly emboldened by some recent poll gains by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in local elections in the state, a RSS-BJP worker Aswin Raj allegedly assaulted the children and damaged their musical instrument, the police have arrested him

Delhi HC grants bail pending appeal to Unnao rape convict Kuldeep Singh Sengar

The bail order accompanies a temporary suspension of sentence for Sengar will walk free; it has returned public attention to the survivor and her mother's pursuit of justice since 2017; Sengar will, however, remain in jail as he is also serving a 10-year sentence in the custodial death case of the rape victim’s father

‘Brutal intimidation of Christians’ all India condemned: Bombay Catholic Sabha

In a statement, accompanied by open letters to senior political leaders, the Bombay Catholic Sabha (BCS) has strongly condemned the “brutal intimidation of Christians in some parts of the country and increase of such act of terror during the Christmas season”