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How deviant acts mar the sacred Kanwar Yatra

A tide of lawlessness, marked by widespread hooliganism, identity-based assaults on eateries, and highway obstruction, grips the Kanwar Yatra across UP and Uttarakhand, amidst alarming reports of assaults on eatery owners based on their identity, SC refused to examine controversial QR code directives issued by UP and Uttarakhand authorities, mandating hotels must display licenses and registration

BJP MLA Raja Singh uses anti-Muslim slurs, targets Muslims, encourages violence at rally permitted by Bombay High Court

Even after submitting an undertaking stating that no hate speech will be made at the rally, Singh made inflammatory comments while addressing an audience of thousands, BJP MLA Geeta Jain plays supporting role

Rajasthan: Muslim teachers suspended for ‘love-jihad’, as students allege they were made to falsely testify

After the government suspended two Muslim government school teachers on the basis of a memorandum submitted to the education minister by a local Hindutva organisation, videos of students have emerged where they can be seen claiming that they were asked to testify ‘wrongly’

Another student lost to suicide at IIT-Delhi

The incident where 24 year old MTech student allegedly committed suicide at the IIT-Delhi. The incident comes as India’s premier institutes, the IITs, continue to be criticised as hostile places for students from marginalised backgrounds

Communal brainwashing to hate and kill: Zeherkhurani, a Hindi novel by Nirmala Bhuradia

The recently published novel Zeherkhurani (Samayik Prakashan, Delhi, 2023) by Nirmala Bhuradia depicts the horrendous implications of putting religion to the worst abuse in the pursuit of remorselessly divisive power politics. Bhuradia is an Indore-based fiction writer and journalist (associated with a Hindi periodical of Indore, Nai Duniya) and a known name in the Hindi literary world.

Mumbai: Senior doctor asked to chant Jai Sri Ram by cab driver

A senior Muslim doctor based in Mumbai’s Haji Ali was asked to chant Jai Sri Ram if he wanted to take the ride. Furthermore, a Muslim rickshaw driver was beaten, robbed, and forced to chant Jai Sri Ram in Mumbra earlier this week.

Modi’s engagements with Temple Events is not Decolonisation

The recent (January 22, 2024) Pran Pratishtha (consecration) of Lord Ram...

Social welfare department intervenes after Dalit youth faces discrimination, denied hair cut in Karnataka

A Dalit youth had to receive an ordinary service like a haircut under police protection in Kadanur village in Doddaballapur in Karnataka this week

I am Rani Chennamma Too! Kittur Declaration asks women to fight for land and people, women’s dignity, and livelihood

Naanoo Rani Chennamma! मैं भी रानी चेनम्मा हूँ the campaign calls for a non-violent fight against tyranny and autocracy: Commemorating 200 Years of Courageous Resistance against British Imperialism

Telangana: Christian cemetery attacked a week after Dalit Churchgoers were attacked

The cemetery was attacked in Telangana’s Secunderabad and saw gravestones and the Christian religious symbol, the cross being desecrated and broken

Gujarat: 108 shrines demolished in Gujarat

The state Home Minister in Gujarat claims to have seen a ‘conspiracy’ where suddenly shrines are turning up in the state, as he demands for budget allocation and asserts that 108 shrines have been destroyed in the state.

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How deviant acts mar the sacred Kanwar Yatra

A tide of lawlessness, marked by widespread hooliganism, identity-based assaults on eateries, and highway obstruction, grips the Kanwar Yatra across UP and Uttarakhand, amidst alarming reports of assaults on eatery owners based on their identity, SC refused to examine controversial QR code directives issued by UP and Uttarakhand authorities, mandating hotels must display licenses and registration

A Spectacle of Injustice Undone: After 19 years, Bombay HC’s acquittal in the 7/11 Mumbai train blasts case recognises the (mis) use of ‘torture for confession’

Nearly two decades after the devastating blasts, that took place on July 7, 2006, the Bombay High Court exposes fabricated evidence, custodial torture, and investigative tunnel vision—overturning death and life sentences in a damning rebuke of India’s anti-terror justice system

Recalibrating Free Speech: The Supreme Court’s constitutional turn in the digital age

Four recent judgments reveal the Indian Supreme Court’s shift toward balancing free expression with dignity, digital accountability, and constitutional values of fraternity and responsibility

Gauhati HC orders clarity after state cites deportation of ‘Wrong Doyjan’ in alleged ‘pushback’ case, demands specific reply on her whereabouts

Court questions State after it cites BSF communication claiming Doyjan Bibi, wife of "Abdul Munnaf", was deported—while plea concerns Doyjan Bibi, wife of Abdul Rejjak

Under Siege for Speaking Bengali: Detentions, deportations and a rising pushback against the targeting of Bengali migrant workers across India

From Odisha to Maharashtra, a quiet purge of Bengali-speaking workers is unfolding—fuelled by profiling, detention drives, and a near-collapse of constitutional safeguards

Supreme Court rebukes Haryana SIT for overreach in probe against Professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad, reasserts narrow scope of investigation

Bench warns Haryana SIT to confine investigation strictly to two Facebook posts under scrutiny; bars further summons to professor, reaffirms protection of free expression beyond sub judice matters

Gauhati HC closes Bakkar Ali writ petition as missing detainee Samsul Ali is found, not rearrested

Court notes production before SP (Border) was attempted; says no deportation threat survives at present but grants liberty to petitioner to return if State takes further action