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How defending a 70-year-old Muslim shopkeeper triggered FIRs, highway blockades, and a law-and-order crisis in Uttarakhand

What began as a local intervention against alleged intimidation over a shop’s name spiralled into right-wing mobilisation, multiple FIRs, and a national debate on selective policing, free speech, and communal harmony in Kotdwar

Howrah: Hindu families help ensure peaceful wedding for Muslim neighbour

Appeal to local police to allow wedding of Muslim widow's daughter amidst prohibitory orders, welcome guests, arrange for safe transport

June 14, Kabir Jayanti must be a day to celebrate inter-faith harmony

Indians must also remember both the great learning and the courage of the great saint-poet

Shivaji in ‘secular’ Maharashtra

First published on: 19 Dec 2015The Shiv Sena threatens...

Kashmir: Friday sermons in mosques express solidarity with Kashmiri Hindu brethren

Kashmiri Pandits have also said on record that they have got a lot of support from their Muslim brothers

Varanasi peace activists begin campaign to maintain communal harmony

Activists and leaders from all faiths will visit sensitive neighbourhoods, market areas and commercial centres to deter people from engaging in violence

Udupi to march for secularism on May 14

Various progressive rights and religious groups will come together to unequivocally protest the growing communal divide in India

Will keep loudspeaker volume low: Mumbai Mosques

Masjid heads say they will continue to follow noise regulations to prevent any chance of communal disruption

Hindu sisters donate land to Eidgah to honour father’s dying wish

Touched by the gesture, local Muslims offered prayers for the deceased father on Eid

A Labour Day befitting India’s Constitution

Be it labour and Dalit classes uniting, or religious groups dining together, May Day was a breath of fresh air amidst India's communal atmosphere

Restoring faith in unity: Mumbai’s Iftar parties

Weeks after Mankhurd violence, residents and even people from other areas in Mumbai got together during Ramadan peacefully

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The Karnataka Janaarogya Chaluvali (Karnataka People’s Health Movement/Struggle) has written a strong critique of the draft Karnataka Right to Health and Emergency Medical Services Bill 2025, questioning its rationale and orientation; the critique points how this draft has been mostly borrowed from the Rajasthan Right to Health Act (2022). Besides, says KJC, while some activists in Karnataka have been clamoring for a replication of the Rajasthan Right to Health Act, this demand has been made without investing too much thought into whether this is what Karnataka requires

Suo moto cognisance of repeated hate speech by CM Assam, Himanta Biswa Sarma must: Assam’s public intellectuals to Gauhati HC

Close to a dozen public intellectuals including Hiren Gohain, Harekrishna Deka, former DGP, Assam and author, Dr. Indrani Dutta, former Director, Omiyo Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and Development, among so many others, have in a letter petition to CJ, Gauhati High Court, Justice Vijay Bishnoi drawn attention of the Court to series of inciteful statements by Himanta Biswa Sarma, Chief Minister and urged suo moto cognisance

Assam’s Electoral Rolls in Crisis: CJP flags structural manipulation in Summary Revision

CJP-led memorandum to the Election Commission documents forged objections, misuse of Form 7, and violations of statutory safeguards meant to protect the right to vote

Campuses in Revolt: How the UGC Equity Stay and Criminalised Dissent Have Ignited Student Protests Across India

From Allahabad University to JNU, BHU and Delhi University, students are pushing back against the silencing of caste critique and the suspension of long-awaited equity safeguards

Another Campus, Another Death: Student suicides continue unabated across India

The deaths of Naman Agarwal and several others in recent days reveal a system where inquiries begin only after lives are lost; from IIT Bombay to BITS Goa, a spate of student deaths in just days exposes the hollowness of institutional safeguards and mental-health promises

When Protest becomes a “Threat”: Inside the Supreme Court hearing on Sonam Wangchuk’s NSA detention

From alleged “Arab Spring inspiration” to missing exculpatory material, the case raises stark questions about preventive detention, free speech, and governance in India’s border regions

Hate Speech Before the Supreme Court: From judicial activism to institutional closure

How a six-year constitutional conversation — spanning ‘Corona Jihad’, ‘UPSC Jihad’, Dharam Sansads, contempt petitions, and preventive policing — culminated in the Supreme Court reserving orders and closing most hate-speech cases