Email: sabrangind@gmail.com
Judgement delivered, paradox prevails: every voter a citizen, but what is the fate of 51.8 million excluded?
The Supreme Court’s May 27, 2026 verdict upholding the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) settles the legal question of constitutional authority but leaves unresolved concerns on absence of due process and independent functioning by the ECI, the arbitrary abuse of process and access: questions of unreasonable and unchecked mass deletions etc.
Gyanvapi case: Judgment on suit maintainability expected today
Heavy police deployment to maintain law and order
Server and mobile phones of top leadership cloned, data taken: Oxfam India on IT raids
Offices of Oxfam India, CPR and IPSMF had been raided on September 7 in connection with alleged illegal funding of political parties
SC to hear pleas challenging the Place of Worship Act on October 11
Centre to file response in two weeks; Intervention Application of the Royal Family of Kashi, Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind and others allowed
SC grants journalist Siddique Kappan bail in Hathras conspiracy case
Arrested under UAPA, Siddique Kappan has been directed to remain in Delhi for the next six weeks before being allowed to leave for Kerela
Supreme Court directs Centre to frame policy on jobs for transgender persons
Centre to form policy to provide reasonable accommodation to transgender people in employment in the establishments within three months under the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019
Bilkis Bano case: SC orders copies of impleading petition to be given to convicts, State of Gujarat
Petitions filed by Subhashini Ali, Revathi Laul and Prof. Roop Rekha Verma, and another by Mahua Moitra; case adjourned for three weeks
SC questions Centre’s decision to just leave minor Rohingya girl at the Myanmar border
The girl’s parents are in Bangladesh and want her back; an NGO has filed application to foster her till she is reunited with her family
Madhya Pradesh: 13-year-old Dalit rape survivor allegedly beaten by police
Girl’s family alleges police forcibly kept the girl overnight at the police station where she was kicked and beaten with belts to pressure her to change her statement
Hijab Ban case: SC wonders if right to dress also makes right to undress a fundamental right
Advocate for Petitioner submits before the court that Secularism does not mean students of only one faith display religion
Religious prayer in Kendriya Vidyalayas: SC allows intervention by Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind
Supreme Court to hear plea against recitation of religious prayers in Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathans next month
Trending
Related VIDEOS
ALL STORIES
ALL STORIES
Dalit Bahujan Adivasi
Appeal by Adivasi-Mulvasi leaders to Jharkhandis: Protect Birsa Munda’s legacy from the RSS
On Birsa Munda’s death anniversary, over 200 renowned Adivasi-Mulvasi leaders, representatives of people’s organisations, traditional self-governance representatives, academics, and activists have issued a joint statement appealing to Adivasis and all Jharkhandis to observe next Tuesday, June 9, the martyrdom day of Dharti Abba Birsa Munda, across every corner of the state by commemorating his Adivasi culture, struggles, and the Ulgulan. Crucially, they have urged them to declare a solemn pledge to protect his legacy from manuvadi organizations such as the RSS, the Janajati Suraksha Manch, and the Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram.
Gender and Sexuality
Varanasi: Transgender Community demands action against communal social media posts, CP denies them entry into premises
The Transgender Community in Varanasi, the Prime Minister’s constituency has demanded penal action against those social media posts that fan intra-community tensions; they submitted a memorandum to the Commissioner of Police today
Minorities
Under heavy police protection, decades-old Mumbai dargah razed
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) authorities demolished the Barkat Ali Shah Baba Dargah in Mumbai under heavy police deployment. The action reportedly followed a notice seeking legal papers and came amid the civic body's anti-encroachment drive. Most ancient places of worship do not have “documents to prove their existence.”
Minorities
Why was a 200-year-old mosque in Varanasi demolished in the middle of the night?
Authorities reportedly carried out a heavily guarded overnight operation in Varanasi riding roughshod over history in a crude bid for clearing land for an ambitious transport hub project linked to Kashi railway station.
Politics
Brute Violence in Bengal sparks citizens’ urgent warning
A joint statement signed by more than 140 activists, academics, former ministers, artists and scientists has warned of “all out fratricide” in India following violent attacks on opposition leaders in West Bengal.
Dalit Bahujan Adivasi
Demolitions of homes of Gujjar Bakerwals in Jammu unconstitutional & violation of FRA 2006: AIUFWP
The All India Union of Forest Working People (AIUFWP) along with the Delhi Solidarity Group (DSG) and Wullar Bachav Front have strongly condemned the reported brutal attack, demolition of the houses, harassment, and attempts to evict members of the Gujjar Bakerwal community in Jammu region a few days ago.
Farm and Forest
Rethinking the ‘Rajput State’: The Neemuchana & Tiladi agrarian movements
The legacy of colonial historiography and further amplified by Hindutva rhetoric has trapped our historical consciousness in the world of kings and dynasties, erasing public memory of our modern agrarian and working-class struggles.
India
Jharkhand’s Biggest Democratic Test Yet: The SIR Challenge
Jharkhand brings together many of the communities most vulnerable to bureaucratic exclusion—migrants, Adivasis, displaced families and informal workers. The Special Intensive Revision will therefore be far more than a routine electoral exercise. The question is not only who gets verified, but whether those already on the margins are asked once again to prove their place in India's democracy