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#STOPKILLINGUS Protest at Jantar Mantar on August 4 against GOI’s “cover-up” of Manual Scavenging deaths

The Safai Karmachari Andolan (SKA), a nationwide movement to abolish manual scavenging is organising a demonstration on Tuesday, August 4, 2026 at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi to protest against continued government apathy towards sewer and septic tank deaths across country and its attempts to fudge the actual data.

Hindutva mobs in Bihar run amok, cause loss of Rs. 6 crores

A report by Maktoob Media has alleged that the violence and destruction of property by the mobs incurred loss of crores to the Muslim population as their shops and properties were attacked.

Ram Navami violence by Aaj Tak calls into question the lopsided portrayal of communally sensitive news

Even as violent incidents occurred in many Indian states, mainstream media conveniently presented a one-sided narrative

Maharashtra interfaith committee to submit report by end April

State Minister, Mangal Prabhat Lodha also spoke on the ‘Bhaichara committees’ at police stations which need to meet frequently to quell communal tensions

A right half won, evolution of women’s right to property under the Hindu Succession Act

Despite several attempts in the previous century the real change came 50 years later, in 2005. However lack of implementation and societal patriarchy has still not meant that property rights have been realised by Indian Hindu women.

Karnataka’s Shame: Cattle trader, a Muslim, beaten to death by cow vigilantes

NDTV and Telegraph both reported how 38 year old, Idrees Pasha’s body was found by the roadside at Sathnur village in Ramanagara district of Karnataka not far from Bengaluru; Puneet Kerehalli, leader of a so-called 'cow protection force', is on the run

Dalit Scholar of Wardha University faces threat to life & career  

With his PhD being unfairly held up, Rajneesh Kumar Ambedkar had to resort to a peaceful public protest; now goons have been brought in to threaten him and his protesting colleagues, even attacking them

The contentious route, a common factor in inciting violence during religious processions in India

Institutional amnesia chronically ails the state police! Myriad commissions of inquiry including the seminal Justice DP Madon Commission of Inquiry into the Bhiwandi-Mahad-Jalgaon Riots in 1970 have abjured the police from allowing indiscriminate passage to religious processions; the recommendations of these commissions and the law of the land are however not followed by the police controlled as its actions are by the executive

9 years since the passing of the NALSA judgment, has the cycle of discrimination and ostracism finally been broken for the transgender community?

On this International Transgender Day of Visibility, CJP examines the Indian state's failures and successes in advancing the welfare of the transgender community

Ram Navami: Violent Clashes in many states of India

West Bengal’ Howrah and Maharashtra’s Aurangabad witnessed stone pelting, arson

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#STOPKILLINGUS Protest at Jantar Mantar on August 4 against GOI’s “cover-up” of Manual Scavenging deaths

The Safai Karmachari Andolan (SKA), a nationwide movement to abolish manual scavenging is organising a demonstration on Tuesday, August 4, 2026 at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi to protest against continued government apathy towards sewer and septic tank deaths across country and its attempts to fudge the actual data.

Violence being normalised, U.P. moving towards police state, say retired cops

The present government under chief minister Ajay Bisht (aka Yogi Adityanath) of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is making the police uncivilized, says retired IPS officer of U.P. cadre Vibhuti Narain Rai while former DGP Sulkhan Singh points out that the State is normalising violence leading to an environment where society accepts such violent actions as a form of ‘instant justice’

When students demonstrated what democracy stands for

The recent upsurge among the nation’s youth that erupted not just at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi but across cities and states in India, rekindled hope, hope that democracy is an aspiration across generations, regions and gender

Bombay High Court clarifies distinct externment tests under Maharashtra Police Act

Holds Section 55 requires satisfaction on the activities of a gang as a whole, while Section 56 mandates an independent assessment of the individual

Policing Autonomy & Faith: Maharashtra’s Anti-Conversion law gets President’s assent

The law’s provisions on prior declaration, third-party complaints and reversal of burden of proof mirror challenges already before the Supreme Court

TISS, Mumbai: When convocation gives way to caution

The abrupt postponement of TISS' annual convocation, reportedly amid fears of protests during Chief Justice Surya Kant's visit, reflects a growing tendency to suppress anticipated dissent rather than accommodate it