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A New Silence: The Supreme Court’s turn toward non-interference in hate-speech cases

The Court’s refusal to monitor rising hate-speech incidents marks a decisive shift from its earlier activist stance, exposing contradictions between judicial pronouncements, institutional capacity, and the lived realities of targeted communities

Shaheen Bagh case: Advocates Sanjay Hegde, Sadhna Ramachandran appointed as interlocutors by SC

The apex court acknowledged the right to protests but pointed out the issue of competing interests

Delhi HC seeks Centre, police stand on injured Jamia student compensation plea

Seeking a Rs.2 crore compensation, the petitioner alleged that both his legs suffered fractures in the police violence on Dec 15

Put criminal records of candidates on website and newspapers: SC to political parties

The Election Commission welcomed the SC order and is making changes to its affidavit

Delhi Police’s clipped video trying to justify Jamia violence backfires

While Delh's Crime Branch released video showing young men seeking refuge entering library and claim they are rioters carrying stones, longer footage that surfaced soon after, debunking the police's claim, and showcasing even more horrifying visuals of brutality

Shocking Expose: Video shows Delhi Police assaulting students in Jamia library

Jamia police assault video: This 44-second video reveals policemen wearing anti-riot gear, entering the library. There were around 10-20 students inside when cops thrashed the students with batons and pushed them outside the hall.

Brutalising Innocence: A report on police excesses on minors in UP

A fact finding report reveals the horrific details of detention and torture of minors by the UP police

Election card is proof of citizenship: Court

Persons may lie but documents cannot, held the Court

Don’t label anti-CAA protesters ‘traitors’, people bound to defend rights in a democracy: Bombay HC

Drawing on the experiences of Indians non-violently fighting unjust laws under a colonial regime during India’s struggle for Independence, the Court said that an agitation cannot be suppressed only on the ground that people are agitating against the government

Allahabad HC stays recovery notice by UP government, matter pending in SC

Slew of such arbitrary notices had been served by the Adityanath government in December 2019-January 2020, many of whom were on innocent bystanders or peaceful protesters

Allahabad HC stays recovery notice against anti-CAA protestor

The HC has kept the hearing for April 20 and awaiting a similar petition in the SC

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A New Silence: The Supreme Court’s turn toward non-interference in hate-speech cases

The Court’s refusal to monitor rising hate-speech incidents marks a decisive shift from its earlier activist stance, exposing contradictions between judicial pronouncements, institutional capacity, and the lived realities of targeted communities

Israel, United States & and other complicit entities guilty of genocide, ecocide, and forced starvation in Palestine: International People’s Tribunal

After two days of intense hearings, coincidence of in-person and online testimonies, the Tribunal delivered its verdict to the world and found the US, Israel, UK, Germany, France, Hungary, The Netherlands and others guilty of ecocide and forces starvation of the Palestinian people

‘Designed to Exclude’: The ongoing enumeration phase of the SIR

In a multi-state report on the hasty and ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process being conducted by the ECI, the PUCL has, echoing what opposition parties and other civil rights groups been stating, called it ‘designed to excluide’

The Deadly Deadline: “I Can’t Do This Anymore”—India’s electoral revision turns into a graveyard for BLOs/teachers

From consuming poison in Uttar Pradesh to hanging in West Bengal, the ‘Deadly Deadline’ of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) triggers a suicide wave among teachers and Anganwadi workers, employees’ unions cry 'institutional murder' while families mourn loved ones broken by state pressure

November 26: How RSS mourned the passage of India’s Constitution by the Constituent Assembly

On November 26, 2025, India’s 77th Constitution Day, students of history must recall how majoritarian outfits like the RSS mourned the passage of modern India’s liberating moment, the passage of the Constitution

A Terror Case Without Evidence: Allahabad High Court’s ‘heavy heart’ acquittal After 28 Years

A devastating judicial analysis reveals how a mass-casualty blast, a collapsed investigation, and an inadmissible police confession led to the undoing of a decades-old conviction

A Salute across the skies, from Air Commodore Pervez Akhtar Khan

The tragic death of 37-year-old Indian Air Force (IAF) pilot, Wing Commander Namansh Syal, who lost his life on Friday, November 21 when a Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA Mk-1) crashed during a demonstration at the Dubai air show, brought this moving response from Pakistani Air Commodore Pervez Akhtar Khan from across the border

Clarity Without Cure: The Supreme Court’s reinterpretation of Articles 200 and 201 and the future of federal governance

The opinion restores textual fidelity to Article 200, but its institutional hesitations risk enabling executive obstruction of democratically enacted State legislation