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After NEET protests ended, the battle moved online: Women protesters face threats, doxing and criminalisation
From demands for accountability over a paper leak to attacks on protesters’ identities, the aftermath of the movement raises questions about dissent, gendered harassment and the State’s response to democratic protest
Against the country’s secular structure: Court denies bail to man accused of damaging Masjid
Considering the gravity of allegations, large-scale involvement of the applicant in the North East Delhi riots, court do not find it to be a fit case for grant of bail
NHRC study recommends protecting the anonymity of rape accused until proven guilty
The study, which was commissioned by the NHRC and conducted by the Centre for Women’s Development Studies (CWDS) sought to understand sexual violence against women from the perspective of adult and juvenile sexual predators.
No ‘Muslim regiment’ in the first place: Former civil servants seek investigation into fake news
Group of former civil servants of the All India and Central Services, pen an open letter, backing army vertans' call for investigations into hate campaign against Muslim soldiers
NAPM condemn police’s and administration’s handling of the Hathras incident
Nine activists visit Hathras, Uttar Pradesh to document the aggrieved family’s account of the series of events related to the Hathras crime.
Hathras case: Two doctors who questioned the FSL Reports, scolded by senior doctors and later sacked by AMU
Doctors Azeem Malik and Obaid Haque were issued their termination letters on October 20 by the CMO in charge two weeks after they had claimed that the FSL report of the Hathras victim “holds no value” as it was collected 11 days after the attack took place.
AMU doctor who challenged UP police’s ‘no rape’ theory sacked!
He is among the two sacked, but authorities tell media that allegations are "highly speculative" and said the two doctors were engaged "on a temporary one-month vacancy”
We are ‘the others’: No justice in Hathras case, 236 Valmikis convert to Buddhism
Bereft of all hope in the state government, members of the Valmiki community converted to Buddhism claiming Hindus will never accept them as one of their own
The False Binary of the Secular versus Islamic Needs to Be Broken
If the French continue with their existing state policies and Muslims continue to let antiquated viewpoints go unchallenged, there will emerge no winners from such a clash of positions.
Your grave will be dug here: Hindutva mob threatens Kashmiri lawyer Deepika Singh Rajawant
Death threats, mobbing, online trolling are now leading to real violence against women, activists, lawyers, journalists in J&K, and elsewhere
Paris beheading: The genesis of such hate crimes
Like fascists and nazis, Islamists believe their superiority grants them the right and the duty to physically eliminate the untermensch (the sub-humans)
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Kerala court grants bail to T.G. Mohandas in Jantar Mantar remarks case, cites arrest procedure irregularity
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