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Beyond mere Recognition: The Jane Kaushik judgment and the next frontier of transgender equality
In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court acknowledged the dignity and rights of employment of transgender individuals, ordered monetary compensation for a transwoman teacher who had been terminated from her position, and ordered that a model Equal Opportunity Policy be made mandatory in all institutions, going further than the Constitution's promise of equality in private employment
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Cordelia Cruise Drug Case: Mumbai lawyer files complaint with Police Commissioner
Complaint draws attention to suspicious behaviour of five people including a “private detective” and a BJP member who “took custody” of movie star Shahrukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan who is a key accused in the case despite no drugs being recovered from him
Delhi: Students and women demand ACP Pragya’s suspension!
Alleging that ACP Pragya Anand ordered for the brutal sexual assault and violence on AISA activists, various students and women activists demanded the suspension of the police official
Bikaner hostel rape case: Rajasthan court awards life sentence to main accused, convicts two others
A 17-year-old Dalit girl was found dead in a water tank at her hostel in Rajasthan’s Bikaner district in 2016
Resist before Delhi Police makes sexual assault their SoP for protesters: AISA
Students' group condemns Delhi police for allegedly sexually assaulting women who had gathered outside Home Minister Amit Shah’s house to protest the killing of farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri
Chargesheet against me looks like a film script: Umar Khalid to court
UAPA accused Khalid has alleged that the chargesheet against him is not consistent, and that planning a chakka jam is not an offence
After farmers, now protesting students face police brutality
Students in Delhi, especially women protesters demanding justice for Lakhimpur Kheri victims, reported severe physical abuse at the hands of city police
Gauhati HC grants bail to UAPA accused who said “Taliban are not terrorists”
Maulana Fazlul Karim was arrested after allegedly posting on Facebook that the Taliban in Afghanistan are not terrorists
Kerala HC upholds conviction of 4 policemen in custodial torture case
The court held that sanction u/s 197 CrPC is a protection reserved only for bonafide acts of public servant
Lakhimpur Kheri: Accused Ashish Mishra arrested on Saturday
After nearly 12 hours of interrogation, Mishra was arrested by the UP police
Delhi violence: Accused not visible in the videography conducted by Police, HC grants bail
The court ruled that the video footage relied on by the Police in the murder of one Musassir, does not show the accused, Mohd. Bilal
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The SIR of electoral rolls has come under severe distress following a series of suicides involving Booth Level Officers (BLOs) and marginalised citizens in West Bengal, Rajasthan, and Kerala, families and employee unions allege that the pressure to complete a traditionally lengthy verification process in the name of SIR within two months is causing fatal mental distress
Gender and Sexuality
Beyond mere Recognition: The Jane Kaushik judgment and the next frontier of transgender equality
In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court acknowledged the dignity and rights of employment of transgender individuals, ordered monetary compensation for a transwoman teacher who had been terminated from her position, and ordered that a model Equal Opportunity Policy be made mandatory in all institutions, going further than the Constitution's promise of equality in private employment
Farm and Forest
Draft Seeds Bill must be withdrawn: SKM, AIKS
SKM leaders say the draft seed Bill surrendered the seed sovereignty of India and it is aimed at predatory pricing by corporate monopolies
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Civil society warns, Election Commission is “Undermining Democracy”
An interesting formation of citizens groups and people’s organisations has directly accused the Election Commission of India (ECI) as being responsible for a systemic assault on the Indian democratic framework
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In Bhagalpur’s Pirpainti, the senior BJP leader urged “Muslim brothers” to reduce their population and referred to “infiltrators,” breaching the Model Code of Conduct and constitutional values
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Hindutva’s Rajasthan Project: Brahmin-Bania Power, not just Muslim baiting
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When Conservation Becomes Coercion: The silent violence faced by the Tharus of Kheri
Over 4,000 Tharu Adivasis in Lakhimpur Kheri — including a blind man, a chronically ill man, and several elders — have been wrongfully booked. This analysis shows how administrative discretion and recent forest-law amendments are further undermining the protections guaranteed to forest-dwelling communities under the Forest Rights Act, 2006