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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

Young Lawyer beaten to death: UP

Image Courtesy: amarujala.comLucknow: 32 year old lawyer Shishir Tripathi...

Electoral bond scheme: CIC pulls up govt for not providing donor info

CIC took serious note of government agencies providing incomplete and vague information on RTI application seeking names of anonymous donors.

Rihai Manch member Robin Verma granted bail

He was arrested and beaten up after being detained by the Lucknow police

Allahabad HC: Bombay lawyer’s email about situation in UP turned into PIL

The email said that the situation in the State of Uttar Pradesh is antithetical to core constitutional values and warrants interference of this Court.

Allahabad HC: NHRC directed to probe into AMU police excess

The High Court directed that the inquiry be completed within a month

Police failure to protect JNU from terror attack needs to be independently investigated

Image Courtesy: countercurrents.orgThe terror attack on JNU last night...

CJP’s big win: SC hears petition, orders no children be sent to detention camps in Assam

CJP’s application sought directions from the apex court that drew attention to the Constitutional, legal obligations and prayed, specifically that no child excluded from the NRC is either sent to detention camps nor separated from their parents in Assam.

Adv. Mohammed Shoaib’s petition hearing postponed by Allahabad HC

The Rihai Manch President was arrested during the anti-CAA protests on December 19, 2019 and his whereabouts are said to be unknown

Breaking! SC on CJP petition: No children be sent to detention camps in Assam

Image Courtesy: thenation.comThe Supreme Court has directed the Assam...

Mangaluru: Fact-finding report unearths the reality of police brutality at anti-CAA protests

To curb dissent and instill fear, the government had used strong-arm tactics against the protestors, with the police resorting to lathi charge, tear gas lobbing and firing at innocents

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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