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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

How many Birth Certificates digitized across states: Activist files RTI

Saket Gokhale demands answers from MeitY to gauge extent of document digitization in the run up to the NRIC

Anti-Shaheen Bagh plea to be heard in SC on Monday

SC deferred hearing the plea as Delhi election is scheduled to take place on February 8 and court did not want to influence it.

Illegal and inhuman: Child rights groups condemn Bidar police’s investigation of children

They condemned the interrogation of children and the charges of sedition slapped on parent and authorities

Why no FIR filed against Anurag Thakur, Parvesh Verma: Court asks Delhi Police

Brinda Karat had moved court after written complaints to SHO and Commissioner failed to elicit any response

Did UP Police lathi-charge women anti-CAA protesters in Azamgarh?

Women were holding Shaheen Bagh style sit-in protest, when male police officers allegedly rained lathis on them

Chinmayanand granted bail, did judge shame survivor?

Allahabad HC order says it was a “complete matter of quid pro quo”, raises questions over survivor’s silence.

Election Commission fires Delhi DCP Chinmoy Biswal

The action by the EC came after repeated incidents of shootings at CAA protesters in the capital

SC extends power to grant anticipatory bail till completion of trial

Appellate or superior court also granted power to consider the correctness of the order granting anticipatory bail at the behest of the State or investigating agency.

AIMPLB objects to SC interference in religious matters

Entry of women into mosques is now being discussed in court among other rights of women in Islam

Bhima-Koregaon case transferred to NIA to compromise independent probe: Front Line Defenders

The organization also said that the case was transferred so that the Maha government couldn’t carry out a review of the inquiry

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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’

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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

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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